Timor-Leste
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
- No
- 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)
- Yes
- Funding (indicative budget to implement the plan)
- Yes
- Institutional responsibilities (e.g. ministries/agencies in charge of specific planned activities )
- Yes
- Other, specify
- No
Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
Secretariat for National Employment StrategyYouth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
Youth is a target group in the National Employment Strategy (2017-2030) and in the Timor-Leste Strategic Development Plan (2011-2030).Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
Timor-Leste faces several challenges in creating sufficient employment opportunities to achieve inclusive growth. Accordingly, the National Employment Strategy (NES) 2017–2030 prioritises the creation of new jobs to reduce unemployment and accommodate the substantial number of young people entering the labour market in the coming years. The strategy also emphasises increasing the number of formal jobs and improving current labour productivity.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
- No
- 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)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- 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)
- Fully involved
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Fully involved
- 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)
- 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)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- 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)
- Fully involved
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Fully involved
- 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)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
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: no 2024 : Chambers of commerce and industry and government committed to share vacancies with government in order to let youth groups know about the employment opportunities in the country. --- 2022 - National Chamber of Commerce and Industry - partaken the initiative of skill development and implementation of the national internship program - Timor-Leste Trade Union Confederation (KSTL) - involves in the drafting of NES and training policy - Civil Society - partaken the internship program initiative by allowing post learners or graduates from public training centre to intern in their officesInclusiveness of vulnerable groups in national strategies
- Women
- Yes
- Migrant Workers
- No
- NEETs
- Yes
- People with disabilities
- Yes
- 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: UNDP is providing assistance on Youth apprenticeship 2024 Actually our institution in collaboration with UNDP to implement YEES program (Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship Support) ----------------- 2022 - DFAT — Seasonal worker, mobile training for unemployed youth, institutional support of vocational training center - GIZ - promoting youth training in Maritime industry - UNDP - promoting youth entrepreneurship program (Knua Juventude Fila Liman)