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    The role of youth in sustainable development: Perspectives from South Asia

    Khan, Anam; Javed, Asif; Batool, Samavia; Hussain, Fazal; Mahmood, Hamid; Ahmed, Vaqar | December 2016
    Abstract
    The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) address the importance of developing the skills of the labour force and the required reform of labour markets for poverty reduction. SDG 8 aims to ‘promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all’. The corresponding targets aim to achieve and sustain a decent per capita economic growth and productivity in developing economies. In order to achieve this, market and competition reforms will be required to unlock creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. Goal 8’s focus is also on reducing youth unemployment. This is particularly important in South Asia, where one-fifth of the population are 15- to 24-year-olds; young adults continue to account for half of the unemployed; and young people are six times more likely than older workers to be jobless (World Bank, 2016). Among young people, women in particular are being left behind due to: constraints on their geographic and occupational mobility, access to education and training, and discriminatory cultural norms (Hunt and Samman, 2016). Based on this, and in light of the ongoing discourse on possible institutional arrangements for SDGs, this review paper discusses constraints to youth employment in South Asia and priority actions needed to accelerate progress on Goal 8. In particular, we focus on: youth employment, implementation and policy interventions to achieve priority actions, and the possibility of sharing regional experiences on mobilising youth. Our key policy recommendations start with an initial country-wide assessment to identify those segments of society that are left behind and that need timely intervention from a social safety net as well as youth engagement programmes. We also recommend setting up a national high-level advisory group to devise national strategies for youth employment and a monitoring framework to support policy implementation. Further, we advise: revisiting taxes and regulations that may limit youth-led start-ups and established businesses’ capacity to invest in developing workforce skills; initiating a large scale seed-grant programme designed by local-level civil society organisations; and localised vocational training programmes, aimed at youth in the informal sector. Finally, sub-national governments will need to ground youth employment programmes in the overall framework of youth engagement through community service and youth advisory services. They should also use fiscal measures to encourage public secondary schools, colleges and universities to open their technical and vocational training subsidiaries for working youth. The findings of this study would help policy makers across South Asia to align national and local youth development plans, focus on long-term labour market interventions and rational spending on youth development programmes. Not only this, these findings would also be relevant to the private sector, being the largest employer of the youth, for building capacities of the employed labour force and to explore the opportunities for public-private partnerships for promoting youth employment in South Asia.
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    Khan, Anam; Javed, Asif; Batool, Samavia; Hussain, Fazal; Mahmood, Hamid; Ahmed, Vaqar. 2016. The role of youth in sustainable development: Perspectives from South Asia. © Sustainable Development Policy Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/9293.
    Keywords
    Vocational Education
    Technical Education
    Investment In Education
    Asian Development Bank
    Economic development
    Skills Development
    Development
    Economic development
    Training programs
    Vocational training
    Training methods
    Economic growth
    Higher education institutions
    Economics of education
    Educational theory
    Education
    Higher Education
    Labor Market
    Training
    Out of school education
    Alternative education
    Educational policy
    Educational planning
    Educational aspects
    Rural planning
    Training methods
    Communication in technical education
    Vocational school students
    Partnership
    Capitalism and education
    Counseling in higher education
    Community and college
    Tutors and tutoring
    Educational change
    Educational innovations
    Total quality management in education
    Educational accountability
    Homebound instruction
    Communication in rural development
    Communication in community development
    Economic development projects
    Development banks
    Economic forecasting
    Environmental auditing
    Cumulative effects assessment
    Human rights and globalization
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    Khan, Anam
    Javed, Asif
    Batool, Samavia
    Hussain, Fazal
    Mahmood, Hamid
    Ahmed, Vaqar
    Theme
    Education
    Development
    Labor Migration
     
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