Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE)
Description
S4YE’s role is to advance and accelerate the development of solutions that have the greatest potential to deliver high quality productive work at scale, for young people. S4YE’s unique approach to fulfilling this role is to:Link: S4YE will link public, private, and civil sectors to integrate lessons learned, identify effective solutions, and accelerate impact on the ground through cross-sector collaboration and innovation.Learn: S4YE will pursue a compelling learning agenda both by collecting and disseminating knowledge across the broad youth employment landscape, and through a targeted portfolio of high-impact initiatives. S4YE will generate and share open knowledge and data, as well as related practical insights across the globe.Leverage: S4YE will leverage its knowledge and partners to catalyse the promotion of public, private, and civil sector innovations and operations that scale promising youth employment practices. S4YE's approach of linking, learning, and leveraging is cyclical, with each action building off each other. Every learning opportunity becomes an opportunity to leverage further resources for youth and to bring new partners in to operations. Every linking opportunity becomes another opportunity to learn new lessons, or reinforce existing ones. And every leveraging opportunity becomes a chance for further learning and collaboration.
S4YE operates through its partners and network, working in the frontier areas to promote increased collaboration. S4YE will cultivate cross-sector partnerships with key stakeholders that support the execution of our coalition’s goal, including: civil society partners, government officials, foundations, private sector entities, international organisations, and young people. As one of its four priority areas, S4YE strives to accelerate innovation in the youth employment ecosystem. To do so, by 2020, S4YE will create an innovative platform for collaboration, knowledge share, and participation. The coalition will design an innovative web-based hub that will foster real time interaction between its partners and network, engaging them on the technical tools and social elements of youth employment. This will be a one-stop shop for support, knowledge, network, and engagement on all things related to youth employment. The website will contain all of the annual deliverables, including but not limited to the Open Source Directory, the flagship report, and the Public Private Partnership framework. It will foster a network of 2,500 supporters by 2020, who will be actively engaged with S4YE’s social media presence, including curated content from partners, supporters, and young people. S4YE will use this hub to capture all of its work and communications with its external network. Moreover, one of S4YE's four frontier areas focuses on Digital Age Impact, where the S4YE coalition will explore the impact of digital age technologies on youth employment and how young women and men can be supported and better prepared to respond. This includes learning about the impact of the digital age on the formal and informal sectors as related to the access and delivery of information and services, as well as generating knowledge about efficiencies and effectiveness gains that can be made in the delivery of services and programmes, including those through vocational training. It also includes better understanding of the comparative impacts of the digital age on women and men. The effects of the digital age on public employment agencies and their services will be investigated. S4YE will also seek to understand the changing nature of employment relationships given new technological trends and their tangible effects on young workers today. In addition to the need to develop digital skills, S4YE recognises that the importance of basic skill development cannot be underestimated in achieving the coalition’s goal.
The S4YE is governed by a Board of Directors (BoD), which provides high-level strategic guidance on the focus and the content of the work programme of S4YE. The BoD provides strategic direction to the executive level of S4YE, who take responsibility for executing decision making. The Executive Committee (ExCom) is composed of senior management level delegates of the Board of Directors. The Executive Committee is responsible for all executive level management decisions. The ExCom follows the strategic guidance provided by the BoD through regular oversight of programme activities, including: (i) managing the long term global programme; (ii) managing the consistency and relevance of S4YE activities carried out by the Secretariat; (iii) monitoring the coalition’s strategic performance and that of the Secretariat; (iv) developing S4YE’s presence in new priority regions; and (v) endorsing recommendations from the Secretariat in relation to funding allocations and providing fundraising support. The Secretariat manages the day-to-day operations of the coalition and reports to the ExCom. It is led by the Coalition Manager, who has responsibility for completing a number of tasks including those across the areas of Knowledge Management, Technical Assistance, Financial Management, and Network Management.
S4YE recently developed its first Flagship Report, "Towards Solutions for Youth Employment: A 2015 Baseline Report". The Flagship Report is the first of a series of S4YE reports developed every five years that will benchmark progress and knowledge regarding youth employment over time. Each Flagship Report will include a comprehensive snapshot of the latest data, trends, and knowledge surrounding the agenda of youth employment globally. The launch of this Report is intended to influence the development of the international agenda for youth employment, including relevant targets in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
* Microsoft
* Government of Germany
* Government of Norway
* Government of Albania
* Plan International
* Youth Business International (YBI)
* International Youth Foundation (IYF)
* RAND Corporation
* International Labour Organization (ILO)
* Hilton
* Rockefeller Foundation
* MasterCard Foundation
* Mozilla Foundation
* Envoy for Youth, United Nations
* World Bank
* E&Y
* Intel
* Walmart
* Hogan Lovells
* Marks & Spencer’s
* SAB Miller
* GAN
* Making Cents
SDGS & Targets
Goal 4
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
4.1
By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes
4.1.1
Proportion of children and young people (a) in grades 2/3; (b) at the end of primary; and (c) at the end of lower secondary achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in (i) reading and (ii) mathematics, by sex
4.1.2
Completion rate (primary education, lower secondary education, upper secondary education)
4.2
By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education
4.2.1
Proportion of children aged 24–59 months who are developmentally on track in health, learning and psychosocial well-being, by sex
4.2.2
Participation rate in organized learning (one year before the official primary entry age), by sex
4.3
By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university
4.3.1
Participation rate of youth and adults in formal and non-formal education and training in the previous 12 months, by sex
4.4
By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
4.4.1
Proportion of youth and adults with information and communications technology (ICT) skills, by type of skill
4.5
4.5.1
Parity indices (female/male, rural/urban, bottom/top wealth quintile and others such as disability status, indigenous peoples and conflict-affected, as data become available) for all education indicators on this list that can be disaggregated
4.6
By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy
4.6.1
Proportion of population in a given age group achieving at least a fixed level of proficiency in functional (a) literacy and (b) numeracy skills, by sex
4.7
By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development
4.7.1
Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education and (d) student assessment
4.a
Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all
4.a.1
Proportion of schools offering basic services, by type of service
4.b
4.b.1
Volume of official development assistance flows for scholarships by sector and type of study
4.c
By 2030, substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and small island developing States
4.c.1
Proportion of teachers with the minimum required qualifications, by education level
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
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Matt Hobson, Coalition Manager