Thursday, January 11, 2007

 

Note for the Vienna UNIDO Working Group meeting

UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION
YOUTH EMPLOYMENT NETWORK
UNIDO/YEN Working Group Meeting
In preparation of
UNIDO/AU High Level Consultative Meeting on Productive Work for Youth
in West Africa with emphasis on the Mano River Union (MRU)
in cooperation with YEN and UNOWA
Information Note
Date and venue: 11 and 12 January 2007
UNIDO Headquarters
Vienna International Center (VIC)
C-Building
Conference Room VII
Wagramerstraße 5
1400 Vienna, Austria
Background:
This Working Group will support the preparation of the UNIDO/AU High Level Consultative Meeting on Productive Work for Youth in West Africa with emphasis on the Mano River Union (MRU). The High-level Consultative Meeting is being convened by UNIDO and the African Union in cooperation with the Secretary-General’s Youth Employment Network (YEN) and the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA) and it will be held in Accra, Ghana, on 19 and 20 February 2006 (Aide-mémoire attached).
In preparation of the Working Group meeting, UNIDO, YEN and UNOWA have undertaken a mapping study on youth employment initiatives in the region in order to assist policy-makers and other key stakeholders in the youth employment arena to determine which policies and programmes have greater potential to create decent work opportunities for young women and men, to identify gaps (if any) and help in the development of further inter agency initiatives (TORs of the study attached).
Objective:
The purpose of the Working Group is to review the outcome of the study in an informal, practical results-oriented setting with fellow experts and practitioners. Refining this study will help outline project concepts that can be tested for scaling up through a multi-stakeholder approach in the Mano River Union and Côte d'Ivoire and the setting up of financing mechanisms for such projects.
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Provisional agenda:
The provisional agenda is contained in annex I.
Background documentation:
The draft “UNIDO/YEN/UNOWA Study on Best Practices, Policy Environment, Tools and Methodologies for Youth Employment in West Africa” will be sent to participants prior to the meeting at the beginning of January 2007.
UNOWA issues paper: “Youth Unemployment and Regional Insecurity in West Africa”, 2nd edition, August 2006, Dakar, Senegal.
Available at: http://www.un.org/unowa/unowa/studies/unemployment-insecurity.pdf
International Labour Office: Guidelines for the Preparation of National Action Plans on Youth Employment.
Available soon at www.ilo.org/youth
World Bank: Global Inventory of Interventions to Support Young Workers.
Proposed composition of the Working Group:
􀂃 Mr. Mats KARLSSON, Facilitator, Vice President of the World Bank and WB Director in Ghana
􀂃 Ms. Regina MONTICONE, Secretary, Secretary-General’s Youth Employment Network
􀂃 Ms. Hopolang PHORORO, Youth Employment Specialist, ILO Regional Office for Africa
􀂃 Mr. Mohamed GASSAMA, Employment Specialist MRU, ILO
􀂃 Mr. Marc SOMMERS, Research Professor, Institute of Human Security, Tufts University
􀂃 Mr. Joe INGRAM, World Bank Consultant, Former World Bank Director (Geneva, Cameroon, Bosnia)
􀂃 Ms. Irma SPECHT, Director, Transition International
􀂃 Ms. Magatte WADE, Founder and former President of AGETIP
􀂃 Mr. Frazer MACDONALD, Policy Advisor, International Relations Division, Department for Education and Skills, UK
􀂃 Mr. Jakob STROM, Deputy Director, Department for Global Disarmament, Foreign Ministry, Sweden
􀂃 Mr. Ayoup Zaid ELRASHDI, Senior Policy Officer for Industry, African Union Commission, Department of Trade and Industry
􀂃 Mr. Zahid TORRES-RAHMAN, Programme Director, Business Action for Africa
􀂃 Ms. Alessandra CABRAS, Political Officer, Focal Point for Youth, UNOWA
􀂃 Mr. Simon TARO, Director of the ECOWAS Centre for the Development of Youth and Sports (CDJS)
􀂃 Mr. Jordan RYAN, UNDP Resident Coordinator, Liberia
􀂃 Mr. Joseph KOROMA, UNIDO Representative in Sierra Leone
􀂃 Ms. Poonam AHLUWALIA, Executive Director, Youth Employment Summit (YES) Campaign
􀂃 Ms. Maud EDGREN-SCHORI, Gender Specialist, UNDP Ivory Coast

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