Skills workshops and advocacy trainings in all UN regions for young people by the UN Major Group for Children and Youth
Description
Based on regional contexts, each workshop will have different focuses, but all of them will:
Facilitate discussion about decent work and sustainable economies;
share knowledge from youth and experts alike;
Build capacity and skills for young people to improve labor market situations;
Provide a space for participants to launch new actions. All workshops will have gender balance.
The commitment will be led by the Global Focal Points, who work with Regional Focal Points to reach out to local partners and participants, and with Thematic Focal Points to produce content. Partners, such as local or national governments, NGOs, universities, etc will support the workshops for accountability.
By enabling young people to 1) improve their labor market situation and 2) further enable other young people, this commitment contributes to knowledge sharing, capacity building, and policy advocacy among, for, and with young people. With this, the participants and members organizations will create, foster, and grow vibrant youth actions around the world.
Online discussions will enable young people to contextualize the abstract concepts of decent work. UNMGCY are supporting the Initiative through awareness-building and policy advocacy; these young people will then be able to advocate for better labor conditions at home.
As workshops will also feed into the production of positions which will be used in future UNMGCY policy advocacy, majority will take place before the High Level Political Forum (HLPF). After July, any and all workshops will be on working with young people to contextualize Member States’ responses to our work at HLPF, and working to implement those policies at the local and national level.
This commitment will repeat in future years, tailored to meet the goals of new Focal Points, and, hopefully to be improved and contextualized throughout the advocacy cycle.
SDGS & Targets
Goal 8
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
8.1
8.1.1
Annual growth rate of real GDP per capita
8.2
Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors
8.2.1
Annual growth rate of real GDP per employed person
8.3
Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services
8.3.1
Proportion of informal employment in total employment, by sector and sex
8.4
Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, with developed countries taking the lead
8.4.1
Material footprint, material footprint per capita, and material footprint per GDP
8.4.2
Domestic material consumption, domestic material consumption per capita, and domestic material consumption per GDP
8.5
8.5.1
Average hourly earnings of female and male employees, by occupation, age and persons with disabilities
8.5.2
Unemployment rate, by sex, age and persons with disabilities
8.6
8.6.1
Proportion of youth (aged 15-24 years) not in education, employment or training
8.7
Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms
8.7.1
Proportion and number of children aged 5‑17 years engaged in child labour, by sex and age
8.8
Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment
8.8.1
Fatal and non-fatal occupational injuries per 100,000 workers, by sex and migrant status
8.8.2
Level of national compliance with labour rights (freedom of association and collective bargaining) based on International Labour Organization (ILO) textual sources and national legislation, by sex and migrant status
8.9
By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
8.9.1
Tourism direct GDP as a proportion of total GDP and in growth rate
8.10
Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all
8.10.1
(a) Number of commercial bank branches per 100,000 adults and (b) number of automated teller machines (ATMs) per 100,000 adults
8.10.2
Proportion of adults (15 years and older) with an account at a bank or other financial institution or with a mobile-money-service provider
8.a
8.a.1
Aid for Trade commitments and disbursements
8.b
By 2020, develop and operationalize a global strategy for youth employment and implement the Global Jobs Pact of the International Labour Organization
8.b.1
Existence of a developed and operationalized national strategy for youth employment, as a distinct strategy or as part of a national employment strategy
SDG 14 targets covered
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Peter Loewi, Global Focal Point