Sector Specific

Sector Specific Employment

Goal

Employment, decent work and livelihoods [42]

Interlinkages

Youth empowerment and employment [44]

Interlinkages

Targets

Strengthened policies, legislation and enforcement to protect human and labour rights and eliminate exploitation in all its forms, with particular attention to children, women, low-income workers and migrants.

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Entrepreneurship: We demand accountability from governments in terms of how money set aside for young people is distributed and used. We recommend that this money should be handled by an independent body free of government interference.

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Women’s equal access to economic, employment and livelihood opportunities, including through legal and policy provisions, for decent work and equal pay with men.

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Social protection, including for informal sector workers.

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Equal land, property and inheritance rights.

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Governments must provide transparent financial support to young people by enacting youth friendly policies that allow them to access loans and grants to establish businesses and self-employment initiatives.

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Access to farming supports, productive assets, banking and financial services, technologies and ICTs, and the ability to start and register a business.

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Creation of employment opportunities for older women, especially important in countries without strong pension or social security systems.

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Prohibiting employment discrimination against women based on pregnancy or motherhood.

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Governments should introduce compulsory basic entrepreneurial courses to be offered in schools and provide mentorship towards the same.

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Adopting and strengthening gender-responsive, family-friendly labour policies and social protection systems that can support women’s equal opportunities for full, productive and decent work, by addressing their disproportionate burden of unpaid care work, inter alia, through maternity and paternity leave policies, flexible work arrangements, the provision of affordable child and elderly care and supports for the care of people living with HIV, disabilities or illness.

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Investments to reduce time-use burdens on women and girls in managing household tasks and family basic needs (e.g. for water, fuel), that also limit female labour force participation and productivity.

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Promote innovation, creativity and foster skill and experience development among young people.

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Creating full, productive and decent employment and livelihood opportunities for youth, with decent wages and attention to young women’s equal opportunities, including expanding access to productive assets and financial services to foster youth entrepreneurship, and skills-building that can also help spur technological innovation and green solutions.

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Creation of Employment: The governments should ensure that at least 1/3 of jobs in the public service are opened up to the youth.

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Undertaking public education on the importance of gender equality and shared rights and responsibilities of men and boys, including in household management, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and childrearing.

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We ask the government to put in place cross border lending systems for citizens living in the Diasporas to allow them to set up businesses and invest at home.

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Adopting legal, policy and institutional employer-based measures to prevent sexual harassment and any form of gender-based violence in workplaces, including through complaint and redress mechanisms, and establishing supportive and flexible policies and programmes for women subjected to domestic abuse and violence.

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