Resolution
on promoting youth employment
adopted by the General Assembly
at its 57th Session, 2002
The UN General Assembly adopted, on 21
December 2002, a resolution introduced by Senegal and co-sponsored by 106 Member States on promoting youth employment. The resolution encourages Member States to prepare national reviews and action plans on youth employment and to involve youth organizations and young people in this process. It also
invites the ILO, in the framework of the Youth Employment Network and
in collaboration with the UN Secretariat, the World Bank, and other relevant specialized agencies, to assist and support, on request, the efforts of governments in the elaboration of national reviews and action plans, and to undertake a global analysis and evaluation of progress made in this regard.
The ILO Governing Body has discussed
this invitation from the UN General Assembly in March 2003.
The text of the resolution
follows:
Official text available in English,
French and Spanish
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Promoting youth employment
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the resolve of heads of State and Government,
as contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration,
to develop and implement strategies that give young people everywhere
a real chance to find decent and productive work,
Recalling and reaffirming the commitments relating to youth
employment made at the major United Nations conferences and
summits since 1990 and their follow-up processes,
Recalling its resolution 54/120 of 17 December 1999, in which
it took note with appreciation of the Lisbon Declaration on
Youth Policies and Programmes adopted at the World Conference
of Ministers Responsible for Youth in 1998, which set forth
important commitments regarding youth employment,
Recalling also its resolution 56/117 of 19 December 2001,
in which, inter alia, it welcomed the Secretary-General’s initiative
to create a Youth Employment Network and invited him to continue
with initiatives in that regard,
Recognizing that young people are an asset for sustainable
economic growth and social development and expressing deep concern
about the magnitude of youth unemployment and underemployment
throughout the world and its profound implications for the future
of our societies,
Recognizing also that Governments have a primary responsibility
to educate young people and to create an enabling environment
that will promote youth employment;
1. Takes note of the work of the High-level Panel of the
Secretary-General’s Youth Employment Network and its policy
recommendations;
2. Encourages Member States to prepare national reviews and
action plans on youth employment and to involve youth organizations
and young people in this process, taking into account, inter
alia, the commitments made by Member States in this regard,
in particular those included in the World Programme of Action
for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond;
3. Invites, within the context of the Youth Employment Network,
the International Labour Organization, in collaboration with
the Secretariat and the World Bank and other relevant specialized
agencies, to assist and support, upon request, the efforts of
Governments in the elaboration of national reviews and action
plans, and to undertake a global analysis and evaluation of
progress made in this regard;
4. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General
Assembly at its fifty-eighth session on the implementation of
the present resolution, including on the progress achieved by
the Youth Employment Network.
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