Key documents

United Nations documents relating to the YEN

• A Resource Directory for Lead Countries of the YEN

• Commission for Social Development resolution on promoting youth employment (February 2006) (E/CN.5/2006/L.3)

• Report of the Secretary-General A global analysis and evaluation of national action plans on youth employment A/60/133 (August 2005)

• United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/60/2 on tenth anniversary of WPAY (October 2005). Para. 8 on the YEN

• December 2004 Note verbale (Fr, Es) providing guidelines for the submission of national reviews and action plans by January 15, 2005

• United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/58/133 (January 2004) on Policies and programmes involving youth. (Ch, Arb, En, Fr, Rus, Es) Paras. 10, 12, 16 and 20 on the YEN

• Report of the Secretary-General on Promoting Youth Employment A58/229 (August 2003) (Fr, Es, Rus Ch, Ar)

• Secretary-General's Youth Employment Network Issues Note presented to the Fifth Session of the United Nations Chief Executives Board High-Level Committee on Programmes. Rome, 26-27 March 2003.

• Extracts on the Secretary-General's Youth Employment Network taken from the Report of the High-Level Committee on Programmes at its Fifth Session, Rome, 26-27 March 2003.

• United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/57/165 (December 2002) on Promoting Youth Employment (Ch, Arb, En, Fr, Rus, Es, Pt).

• 2001 recommendations of the High-Level Panel and Appendix A56/422 (Fr, Es Ch, Ar)

World Bank documents relating to the YEN

• World Bank Children & Youth framework for action

• World Bank Issue Brief on Youth

• Trends in the Youth Labout Market in Developing and Transition Countries by Niall O'Higgins, October 2003

• Youth Employment Policy in Developing and Transition Countries - Prevention as well as Cure by Martin Godfrey, October 2003

ILO documents relating to the YEN

• Youth Employment - A Global Goal, A National Challenge

• Guidelines for the preparation of National Action Plans on Youth Employment

• Good practice process for preparing National Action Plans on Youth Employment with international technical assistance

• Report and Conclusions of the Committee on Youth Employment convened at the 2005 International Labour Conference

• Background Report on Youth Employment "Pathways to Decent Work" (FR) (ES) submitted to the International Labour Conference in 2005.

• ILO factsheet on "Decent and productive work for youth" in MDG 8 , August 2005

• Background paper "Youth employment: From a national challenge to a global development" (FR) for the G8 Labour and Employment Ministers’ Conference March 2005

• Conclusions (FR) (ES) and Background Report (FR) (ES) of the Tripartite Technical meeting on Youth Employment: The Way Forward, 14-15 October 2004.

• Global Employment Trends for Youth, August 2004

• United Nations Initiative on Youth Employment, Paper presented to the ILO Governing Body Committee on Employment and Social Policy, March 2003. (Fr, Es).

• Report of the ILO Governing Body Committee on Employment and Social Policy. Summary and Conclusions of the discussions on the YEN, March 2003. (Fr, Es).

• Resolution concerning youth employment adopted by the International Labour Conference in 1998.

Technical Documents

• NEW Updated version of UNOWA report on ‘Youth Unemployment and Regional Insecurity in West Africa’ available

•NEW A Resource Directory for Lead Countries of the YEN

• NEW YEN Secretariat / UN DESA publication "A Review of National Action Plans on youth employment"

• NEW Coming soon - YEN Youth Guide (draft version now available online)

• YEN Working Paper Series No 1. Youth employment promotion; A view of the ILOs work and lessons learned, by David H. Freedman. November 2005

• Improving prospects for young women and men in the world of work: A Guide to Youth Employment. October 2004

• The Global Alliance for Youth Employment - The next five steps, 2003 Recommendations of the High-Level Panel (Ch, Pt).

• Consolidated outcome document of the YEN High-Level Panel's Working Groups on Employability, Equal opportunities, Entrepreneurship and Employment creation (June 2003).

• Note verbale from the UN Secretary-General of the United Nations delegation and guidance note for the preparation of national reviews and action plans.

• Guidelines for lead countries of the Youth Employment Network

Background Documents

• Concept paper on the Youth Employment Network.

• Generating decent work for young people - an issues paper for the Youth Employment Network.

YEN introductory information

• YEN introductory information pack

• YEN Newsletter. An electronic newsletter providing updates on the activities of YEN: April-June 2008, February 2008, March 2007, November 2006, September 2006, January 2006, November 2005 , Summer 2005 , April 2005 , December 2004 September 2004, May 2004, February 2004, November 2003, September 2003, April 2003

• YEN fact sheet. (Ch, Pt)

• Introduction to the YEN (PowerPoint Presentation).

• YEN Youth Consultative Group introductory flyer

• Youth Brochure

• Short film on youth employment (size: 5,112 kb).

• Speeches and presentations on the YEN

• YEN poster designs 2005

• YEN postcard designs 2005

Core partner publications

United Nations

United Nations Mandates on Youth Employment, by Maxwell Haywood, Division for Social Policy and Development

More relevant publications can be found on the UN's site Youth at the United Nations

World Bank

Relevant publications can be found on World Bank's website dedicated to youth, Youthink! , its Youth, Development and Peace Network website and those of the Bank's Children and Youth and Social Protection Units.

International Labour Organization

See section above and:

• ILO Youth Employment fact sheet produced for the ILO'sVII European Regional Meeting, Budapest, 14-18 February 2005

• ILO Youth Employment curtain raiser at the European Regional Meeting, Managing transitions: Youth - Duration: 5 min. 16 sec. (2.79MB)

• ILO Global Employment Trends, January 2004

• Decent Work: A Common Goal of Youth and Trade Unions

• Meeting the youth employment challenge: A guide for employers

• Youth Unemployment and Employment Policy: A Global Perspective

More relevant publications can be found at the ILO's youth employment site and on the SKILLS Development for youth site

• Final report of the Commission for Africa (March 2005) and its recommendations relating to youth employment and the YEN.

• Joint letter from theYEN's High Level Panel and Youth Consultative Group to the G8 Heads of State highlighting the recommendations, May 2005.

• Social Entrepreneurship: Towards an Entrepreneurial Culture for Social and Economic Development by Susan Davis

• "The School-to-Work Transition: A Cross-National Perspective", Paul Ryan, in Journal of Economic Literature Vol. XXXIX (March 2001), pp. 34-92; and forthcoming in: A.-N. Perret-Clermont, C. Pontecorvo, L. Resnick, T. Zittoun and B. Burge (eds), Youth, Learning and Society, Cambridge, UK, CUP.

A comprehensive listing of publications on the issue of youth employment can be found in this site's best practice database.

Press and media

The Youth Employment Network appears in the international media. In this section we provide a summary of the YEN press activities and monitor media coverage of its activities.

• High Level Business Roundtable with HRH The Prince of Wales and the UN Secretary-General, 1 November 2005 Press Release

• Sri Lanka Businessline article on YEN developments in the Country , August 2005.

• UN Press Release on Report of the Secretary-General A global analysis and evaluation of national action plans on youth employment A/60/133 (17August 2005)

• ILO Media Release on UK commitment to become a YEN Lead Country, June 2005.

• ILO Release on the YEN High-Level Dialogue "Bringing Youth Employment into the International Development Agenda", June 7 2005.

• ILO Release on YEN Lead Country Azerbaijan, June 2005.

• Audio-clip of an interview with the ILO Director-General Juan Somavia discussing Youth Employment during the Symposium on Globalization and the Future of Youth in Asia, 2-3 December 2004, Tokyo, Japan.

• Global Employment Trends for Youth Press Release (Fr and Es) August, 2004.

• ILO Xth African Regional Meeting. Feature article: Youth Employment: A leap to the future, December 2003.

• Audio-clip of an interview with Alodia Ishengoma, Coordinator of the ILO's Solid Waste Management Project (SWMP), Dar es Salaam on Job Creation and Youth Employment. December 2004 (size: 384 Kb).

• Press clippings on International Youth Day August, 2003.

• Press clippings on the 2nd High-Level Panel meeting July, 2003.

• Secretary-General's noon briefing report on the participation of the Secretary-General at the 2nd High-Level Panel meeting.

• Audio-clip of the comments made by the UN Secretary-General at the 2nd High-Level Panel meeting (size: 1,1113 Kb).

• Press release for the 2nd High-Level Panel meeting, (Fr and Es)

• Press release for the 1st High-Level Panel meeting in 2001.

• Press conference held on the first High-Level Panel meeting in 2001.

Links  

United Nations

• UN Millennium Summit

• Millennium Campaign

• Millennium Development Goals

• UNICEF - Voices of Youth

• UNESCO - Youth

• International Youth Day site

• UN Habitat and youth employment

• Indicators for Monitoring the Millenium Development Goals

World Bank

• Youthink!

• Youth, Development and Peace Network

• Global Partnership for Youth Development: Partnered with the World Bank, GPYD studies, promotes, and invests in good examples of tri-sector partnerships in youth development around the world.

• Investing in Young Lives: The Role of Reproductive Health

• Youth Information Technology and Microenterprise Project

• (YouthIT) This project links training in information and communications technology (ICT) with entrepreneurship skills development at already existing Internet Learning Centres

International Labour Organization

• ILO youth employment site

• InFocus Programme on Skills, Knowledge and Employability

• Labour market policies

• Key indicators of the labour market

• Cinterfor's Youth training and employment section (Spanish and English)

• Global Employment Agenda (GEA)

Development Gateway youth employment special, August 2004

Development Gateway entrepreneurship special, July 2004

YEN Partner organisations

Youth Organisations working with the YEN