Sao Tome and Principe
Strategies for youth employment
- Strategies for youth employment
- Yes
Youth employment strategy planned in the next 2 years
- Discussions within the government
- Yes
- Consultations with national-level stakeholders (e.g. employers’ and workers’ associations, youth councils, etc.)
- Yes
- A draft strategy already exists
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Countries with national action plans for youth employment
- Monitoring framework (timeline and activity/outcome indicators, e.g. youth labour market indicators)
- No
- Funding (indicative budget to implement the plan)
- No
- Institutional responsibilities (e.g. ministries/agencies in charge of specific planned activities )
- No
- Other, specify
- No
Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- No
Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
Youth are targeted in national strategies, including the National Youth Policy Strategy and the National Employment and Training Plan (PANEF). Implementation is led by both the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Ministry of Labour. These frameworks aim to improve youth inclusion in employment and vocational training initiatives.Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
• Improving the business environment in the country. • Paid professional internships for young people. • Implementation of the “Empreende Jovem” (Youth Entrepreneurship) Programme.Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- No
Policy areas in national youth employment strategies
- Macroeconomic and Sectoral policies
- Yes
- Enterprise Development
- Yes
- Education, Training and skills development
- Yes
- Labour Demand
- Yes
- Labour Law and Legislation
- Yes
- Labour Market Policies
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Social partners' inclusion in the youth employment strategy
- Workers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Informed
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Consulted
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Consulted
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Consulted
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Consulted
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Employers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Fully involved
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Fully involved
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Fully involved
Youth-led organizatios' inclusion in the national strategy
- Fully involved
- No
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- No
- Consulted
- Yes
- Informed
- Yes
- Not involved
- No
Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
2025: - Consultations to define the actions to be developed for young people. - Consultations were held with companies to find out the real training or skilled labor needs that companies have, so that the government could guide these training actions to respond to other business needs. 2020 survey: The Chamber of Commerce is regularly informed of and participates in all employment promotion activities.Inclusiveness of vulnerable groups in national strategies
- Women
- Yes
- Migrant Workers
- No
- NEETs
- No
- People with disabilities
- No
- Low skilled workers
- Yes
- Rural workers
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Yes
Additional information:
2025: ILO, ADB, UNDP 2022: -ILO: support to the Ministry of Labour, Family and Vocational Training and the National Institute of Statistics. -AfDB: support to Ministry of Youth in the formulation of the national youth employment creation strategy.