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Acknowledgments
The World Youth Report prepared biennially is the flagship publication on youth issues of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. The World Youth Report: Youth and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a product of the efforts contributions and support of many people and organizations.
Education and the transition to work
Arab societies perform below the world average on educational attainment achievement and equitable access. Once young people in the Arab region try to get work they find that the main traditional avenue to secure employment the government has been closed. Finding stable and satisfying employment is one of the most prominent challenges facing youth. Arab economies are not providing enough private sector jobs owing to poor policy stability which hampers private investment alongside red tape a failure to build a manufacturing base little access to credit (outside a favoured circle) and in the formal sector tight labour regulations. Women are especially hard hit in multiple areas. The policy prescriptions are fairly standard which makes it all the more difficult to understand why governments have shown little interest in solving the problem over the last couple of decades. They include investing more in infrastructure and improving the business environment. Labour market programmes and micro-finance are less practical approaches.
Youth and human development in Arab countries: The challenges of transitions
The central theme of this report is young people in the Arab region. Never before has the region had this high share of young people. Although age distribution is only one demographic variable in the complexities of social and political life the large presence of youth in Arab countries is a crucial reality conditioning the region’s political economic social and cultural development.
Empowering youth secures the future: Towards a development model fit for youth in the Arab region
This chapter provides a brief summary of the challenges that youth are facing in the Arab region. It also proposes that responding to the needs and aspirations of youth requires adopting a development model fit for youth that focuses on the imperative of building capabilities expanding opportunities and mainstreaming gender equality. This model should also be solidly based on the achievement of peace and security at the national and regional levels.
Foreword
Last year world leaders adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as a vision for transforming global development over the next fifteen years to build a more peaceful prosperous sustainable and inclusive future. The Agenda asserts that young women and men are critical agents of change and are central to achieving sustainable development.
The effects on youth of war and violent conflict
Protracted warfare has long-term physical and mental impacts on the individual as well as intergenerational economic impacts. Yet young people can be extremely resilient and resourceful; They have to be. They thus create for themselves an oasis of stability in a world of shifting social and political landscapes. At a societal level such stability is also key or else young individuals themselves will become victims or perpetrators of violence.
Equality in the household
Youth and the 2030 agenda for sustainable development
In September 2015 Member States of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development setting out a global vision and plan for ending poverty and hunger realizing human rights and strengthening world peace by 2030. At the heart of the Agenda is a set of universal objectives embodied in 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets that are integrated and indivisible and that aim to end poverty protect the planet and ensure equality and prosperity by balancing and coordinating the social economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable development.
Youth employment
YOUTH employment and economic empowerment are essential components of a strong foundation in any society. Having decent work is crucial for young people and their future but it also has a domino effect on local communities countries and the world as a whole. The present challenge lies in simultaneously creating jobs for the bulging youth population and addressing related concerns such as the skills mismatch working poverty and the suboptimal school-to-work transition situation especially in the developing world. Disadvantaged youth often benefit most from the creation of new opportunities skills training microcredit provision support for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and investments in education all of which contribute to providing the knowledge and tools needed to be competitive in the international labour market.
Youth education and employment
YOUNG people face numerous challenges affecting their development and well-being. Among the greatest of these challenges are unemployment and the lack of decent work for youth which many countries have struggled unsuccessfully to address. Similarly despite the progress made in raising basic literacy rates many countries have been unable to provide their youth populations with quality education and the skills they need for the world of work. As the global youth population continues to increase greater investment is needed to enhance young people’s education and employment opportunities in order to leverage their human capital. Without such investment quality education (Goal 4) and decent work (Goal 8) will remain out of reach for youth in many countries.