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STORY: ILO / YOUTH EMPLOYMENT TRENDS
TRT: 01:11
SOURCE: ILO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 20 NOVEMBER 2017, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
20 NOVEMBER 2017, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Close up, report
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Azita Berar-Awad, Director, Employment Policy Department, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“The ILO estimates that globally there are 70.9 million young women and men unemployed in 2017.”
3. Pan left, press room
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Azita Berar-Awad, Director, Employment Policy Department, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“There will be a need for digital skills across all economic sectors, and there is a need to invest in really bridging up and bringing this accessibility to learning skills in digital economy for all who want and need it.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Azita Berar-Awad, Director, Employment Policy Department, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“There isn’t a single bullet, but we are highlighting a number of policies and measures that can be taken that we know they work.”
7. Med shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Azita Berar-Awad, Director, Employment Policy Department, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“Policies thinking already about innovative ways of having social protection for all those who are finding a job or starting a business on the gig economy, through the platform economies, that’s a growing sector including for young people.”
9. Pan left, press room
The International Labour Organization (ILO) said young people account for over 35 percent of the unemployed population worldwide with an estimated “70.9 million young women and men unemployed in 2017.”
In its “Global Employment Trends for Youth” report, the ILO said the estimated figure of 70.9 million unemployed youth in 2017 is an important improvement from the crisis peak of 76.7 million in 2009, but the number is expected to rise by a further 200,000 in 2018, reaching a total of 71.1 million. The It said overall economic growth continues to be disconnected from employment growth, and economic instability threatens to reverse observed gains in youth employment.
ILO Director of the employment policy department, Azita Berar-Awad, said there will be a need for digital skills across all economic sectors, and there is a need to invest in “really bridging up and bringing this accessibility to learning skills in digital economy for all who want and need it.”
Berar-Awad noted that there isn’t a “single bullet” to resolve youth unemployment, but the ILO is highlighting a number of “policies and measures that can be taken that we know they work.” She highlighted the importance of policies which incorporate “innovative ways of having social protection for all those who are finding a job or starting a business on the gig economy, through the platform economies, that’s a growing sector including for young people.”
The ILO report calls for strategic multi-stakeholder partnerships in the framework of the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth, the overarching platform under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to scale up action and impact on youth employment
