Youth Employment Challenges
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Introduction In the recent years, youth employment has gained recognition all over the world. A number of international forums, commitments are made to achieve the full and productive employment levels and creating decent work opportunities for the young generation.For the Egyptian Government, youth employment is a major challenge as the problems related toemployment are affecting both young women and young men in the country.Can you please put more statistics in the introduction about the unemployment rate .. etcEgypt, at present, is in a stage of its demographic transition and this stage is popularly called as "youth bulge." This refers to a period where the graph of the young population shows a significant growth in comparison to the other age groups (Kashyout, 2015). ( Can you explain more this part I couldn’t understand what you want to say – at least add one more paragraph)There is an exclusionary framework that operates in Egypt, where some people have a successfultransition to jobs along with financial as well as personal independence while the others suffer from unemployment.The economic situationIn the year 2008, the whole world was hit by a serious financial and economic crisis and the effects of that crisis extended to various countries. It has affected mostly the young generation who are generally targeted first during any crisis and are kicked out first from the jobs and are not able to find a job after a crisis (Assaad, 2014). This is the same situation that is prevailing in Egypt. (How exactly this crisis affected Egyptian youth)
Youth Employment Program 1For a period of three years (when exactly this period started), Egypt has faced serious economic challenges along with an unstable political condition which has resulted in increased stagnation, poverty and unemployment in the country. Out of those who are affected by unemployment, minimum 90% are the people who are below 30 years of age. In the recent years a paradox has been observed as the young, educated people in Egypt are unemployed, whereas, on the other hand, the Egyptian employers are finding it difficult to hire duly qualified workers. This shows a failure in the education and training as it is not able to get young people having the required skills as demanded by the labor market. As per the report issued by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS)for 2015, on youth population in Egypt, it is observed that out of the total population in Egypt, 23.6% is being represented by the Egyptian youth and which is around 20.7million in number. Out of those, 26.3% of the youth is suffering from issues of unemployment, and around 51.2% are suffering from the issues of poverty (Barsoum, 2014). The Youth which is observed to be very close to the poverty line is around 27.8%, and the ones which are observed under the poverty line are represented by 24.1%.As per the figures recorded in the year 2014, the youth unemployment rate was observed around 29% (approximate), and youth suffering from poverty denoted 50%. The total number of people who were leaving the country had shown an increase of 17% for the year 2014 as compared to the year 2013. The youth leaving the country assumed unemployment as the main reason behind their migration.
Youth Employment Program 2Out of the total labor force in Egypt, 52% is being represented by the Young generation where 72.3% is represented by the young males and 33% by the young females.It is observed that in obtaining permanent jobs, females have been more successful and are constituting 70.8% of the total young Egyptians who achieved success in attaining permanent jobs. Explain why females are more successfully?Analysis of approaches taken by the government for youth employmentBy observing the current situation of unemployment, it has been recommended that best solution to overcome the problem is the creation of job opportunities for young people to enter the labor force. The other solutions can include, providing incentives to the employers on reserving jobs for the young generation.There is a need to develop partnerships between the government and the private sector. Integrated strategies need to be adopted to address the mismatch that is evident between the skills possessed by young people and the skills required by the market. The government has been developing the 'Building Young Futures' program in order to develop the skills of young people (Jenkins, 2014) please explain in details which kind of skills. The program shares an idea of focusing on the development of skills in youth starting from an earlier stage (15-17 years) that is much before they enter the labor market.The government, at the beginning of the year ( which year), has developed a national training plan in order to increase employment and simultaneously to reduce unemployment in the
Youth Employment Program 3country. The unemployment problems in the country which is currently faced by over three million individuals which constitute 13.1% of the total labor force in the country are supposed to be eliminated through this plan. ( citation)The aim with which this plan was initiated was to provide jobs to over 2 million people. In 2014,jobs were generated for almost 170,000 people out of which approximately 70% jobs were filled.In May, Adel Labib, who was the Minister of Local Development, had announced of his approval to over 1,000 projects in just one month which were an initiative towards the community, human and local development. These projects were given the title-“Your Project”and involved an investment of around EGP 34m.Later on the World Youth Day, which year??? CAPMAS report was released stating that the young employed Egyptians between the age group of 18 and 29 consisted of 51.1% young males while remaining 48.9% was represented by young females. Later in the year 2013??? Or 2014, you mentioned above 2014 – Please check the references as the professor is so strict out of all thecountries belonging to the Secretary-General’s Youth Employment Network (YEN), Egypt was considered to be a lead country (Assaad, 2016). YEN was a partnership done between the UnitedNations, the ILO, and the World Bank.As the leading country of YEN, the Government of Egypt prepared a National Action Plan on youth employment (NAP) in support with the ILO. The process through which NAP has come into existence has been supported strongly by the Ministry of Manpower and Migration (MoMM). In Egypt, the NAP had started in February 2006 ( so it started before YEN or because of YEN)where Capacity Building Workshop was organized with the support of the ILO, the
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