Guide for the preparation of National Action Plans on Youth Employment
This Guide has been developed by the ILO to assist governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations as well as other relevant stakeholders such as youth groups in preparing National Actions Plans on Youth Employment (NAPs). The Guide is divided into three main parts. Part I describes some issues to be considered when deciding on the development of a NAP and proposes a step-by-step approach to developing such a NAP through a participatory process that fosters broad-based national ownership. Part II presents the technical framework for developing a NAP and at the same time provides some guidelines on how to do so. This Part is divided into four sections. The first three sections contain a summary of the purpose and main guidelines for the work to be undertaken (presented in a box) and, through a set of tasks, point to information to be collected and analysed when drafting the relevant part of the NAP. The fourth section describes the different documents that should be appended to the NAP. Part III provides additional tools and reference material.

Biz-up: Self-employment skills for young people
Self-employment promotion is an important component of the ILO’s work on employment policy, and human resources development and training. In particular, the Human Resources Development Recommendation (R195), 2004, calls for international cooperation to develop young people’s entrepreneurial skills through education, training and lifelong learning. The ILO has been prompted by its member States to develop tools for the promotion of decent work for youth.The aim of thie Guides "Biz-Up: Self-employment skills for young people" is to raise awareness on the set of skills that are important for self-employment creation, but also for responding to changing labour market demand and for encouraging young people to find new ideas and ways of doing things. These Guides have been designed for the promotion of self-employment through group sessions organized by staff of labour market institutions in charge of employment promotion. They can also be used by employment service advisers while providing counselling services and preparing individual employment plans for young people." The package consists of a guide for facilitators and a toolkit and of a user's guide that can be used to inform the development of similar tools that are crafted according to the specificities of the national context.
Facilitator's Guide and Toolkit
User's Guide

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