Rethinking Youth Employment Coordination Youth Employment Knowledge Sharing
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Rethinking Youth Employment Coordination Youth Employment Knowledge Sharing Forum 19 -22 July 2015 Harare
Why better youth employment coordination is needed? • A national priority and of interest to several players • Complex problem with no clear answers • Cross cutting issue involving many players • No single entity has resources or autonomy to address alone • Better use of limited resources • To avoid overlaps and duplication since numerous interventions at micro, meso and macro level • To exploit untapped potential for synergies and cooperation • Poor documentation and systematic dissemination of information
Many players… TU NGO DP DP GOVERNMENT UN UN UN PRIVATE SECTOR GOVERNMENT TU UN NGO CSO DP PRIVATE SECTOR GOVERNMENT
Several efforts… Creation of enabling policy environment Implementation of youth employment interventions Mainstreaming youth employment into development frameworks Establishment of institutions addressing youth employment Resources allocated to address youth employment
Coordination is many things: • The establishment of a Ministry or agency dealing with youth employment • Youth policies • Employment policy frameworks
But have any of these worked and resulted in the coordination of youth employment?
The Collective Impact approach • Propose one approach to address coordination • Requires a commitment by a group of actors to a common agenda for solving youth employment • Requires five components 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Common agenda; Shared measurement Mutually reinforcing activities Continuous communication Backbone support
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