YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AND INVESTMENT IN ALTERNATING TRAINING IN TIME OF CRISIS IN AFRICA
Dr. Nora Alleki - Researcher Associated in IRES - Noisy Le Grand – France
Email: nora.alleki@ires-fr.org/ Phone: +33(0)6 87 31 62 31
Project Leader in the Ministry of Labour – Paris
Email: nora.alleki@travail.gouv.fr/ Phone: +33(0)1 44 38 26 99
Context
At the global level, after four years of consecutive declines, the number of unemployed increased in 2008 by 14 millions. Response and job losses mount, worldwide unemployment could increase by at least 38 million by the end of this year. Number of working poor is increasing; businesses are going under; demand is decreased; prices of commodities are falling, deterioration of commercial balance is expected…
The crisis drives new challenges to all stakeholders: (i) national governments have adopted various saving recovery plan and try to design employment policies which could saving or creating millions of jobs (ii) international organisations or international cooperation were called to find new international governance frameworks to finance and support developing countries (iii) social partners should anticipate and negotiate to find pragmatic solutions.
The negative effects of the crisis on employment, entrepreneurship will be more problematic for youth and women regarding their structural problems of unemployment. In this context, monitoring youth employment is a great challenge that asks the strategic employment-training relationship. Careers education needs to more coherently address flexible employment prospects for young people and pay particular attention to groups who are shown to face employability problems when they leave school. This paper proposes, in a first time, to identify, in this whole of various policy responses, including education and training and active labour market policy, the measures which improve skills development of young people. In a second time, this paper will estimate the performance of the measures based on alternating education to monitoring youth unemployment.
Key words: Employment policies, training systems, skills development, developing countries, financial crisis, developing countries, entrepreneurship…
