Commitment title:

Promoting youth employment by harnessing the demographic dividend.

Commitment description:

1. Promote the creation of decent employment and adequate training for young people through effective policies and programmes that create sustainable employment, in accordance with international conventions and regional declarations, with a view to ensuring increased social, economic and human development benefits from the demographic dividend; 2. Continue efforts to provide quality universal primary education by extending basic education to the lower secondary level and ensuring gender parity between girls and boys by 2030; 3. Develop, adopt and implement migration policies based on reliable data, especially those targeting women and young people, maximize the benefits and minimize the costs and impact of international migration, and protect the rights of migrants and citizens;

Mode of engagement:
  • Policy and guidance
    Promouvoir la création de travail décent et une formation adéquate aux jeunes en veillant à l’atteinte de la parité entre les filles et les garçons d’ici 2030
Commitment to be actioned in: Guinea
Submitted from: Guinea
Submitted by
MINISTERE DU PLAN ET DU DEVELOPPEMENT ECONOMIQUE
Thematic area
Draw on demographic diversity to drive economic growth and achieve sustainable development
Commitment category

(8) Investing in the education, employment opportunities, health, including family planning and sexual and reproductive health services, of adolescents and youth, especially girls, so as to fully harness the promises of the demographic dividend.