Working Groups
Organization of the Working Groups
T
he Working Groups were organized by the YEN Secretariat in the course of 2002. The YEN Secretariat consulted members of the High-Level Panel to ascertain to which of the four Groups each wished to contribute. For each Working Group, one Member of the High-Level Panel volunteered to chair the group, and furthermore a partner organization volunteered to provide the Group's Secretariat. Each of the Working Groups held meetings between December 2002 and May 2003.
• Employability - International Youth Foundation
• Equal opportunities - International Center for Research on Women
• Entrepreneurship - Youth Business International
• Employment creation - United Nations Division of Social Policy for Development (Department of Economic and Social Affairs)Outcomes of the Working Groups and next steps
The four "roadmaps" were developed by the Working Groups and formatted into a consolidated paper
which was presented at the 2nd meeting of the High Level Panel, 30 June-1 July 2003.
This is a living document, and examples of the various policy recommendations will continue to be added.
This roadmap should serve several purposes:
• The document serves to document the ongoing discussions within the High-Level Panel since its 2001 recommendations;
• The document is provides guidance to UN Member States in preparing national reviews and action plans on youth
employment as called for in the United Nations General Assembly Resolution on Promoting Youth Employment, and
as such supplements the Guidance Note which was sent to all governments;
• The document is intended to provide guidance to Youth Employment Network partners in designing, implementing and evaluating youth employment policies and programmes.
The four Working Groups agreed at the 2nd Meeting of the High Level Panel to remain in their current structure and to offer
technical support role in each of their four policy areas for countries.
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