The problem of juvenile unemployment is visualized on the world, even in evolved countries as a highly prior social challenge. The segment of young men deals with complexities and obstacles, but with bigger difficulty than the average of population: juvenile unemployment rate doubles and triples the general unemployment rate. Young men acquire a trascendant value and preponderant part, building the strategic resource of society’s integral promotion, being education, formation and training the keys to individual and social construction.
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The background paper prepared by Claudia Jacinto and Javier Lasida (RedEtis-IIPE) for the WGICSD meeting held in Buenos Aires on actors, strategies, activities and perspectives of international cooperation in TVET programmes addressed to youth and focused on unemployment and poverty in Latin America. Download the document |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 21 July 2008 )
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IDB program offers opportunities for social inclusion. A Uruguayan non-profit organization has obtained US$600,000 from the Inter-American Development Bank to bolster entrepreneur and employment opportunities in poor neighborhoods in Montevideo, the capital. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 27 June 2008 )
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The Commonwealth Youth Programme Caribbean Centre (CYPCC) Programme facilitated a one-day National Consultations on the development of Competency Standards for Youth Work with a cross-section of stakeholders on June 26 at the Red Cross Conference Room in Grenada. A request was also made for assistance from CYPCC, by one of the stakeholders present at the consultations, in the development of a National Parenting Programme. |
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 Technical Team summerises National Consultations outcomes. Citizenship, social structure and the whole process of regional integration and how youths can be better prepared to play a greater role, also featured during the consultations. |
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Prof. Limberg Chero from Peru spoke on Youth for Action Decent Work Forum that was developed in Berlin (Germany), emphasizing the importance of fighting against the problems that latin american immigrants live, mainly young, in developed countries, and remembering that Latin America had european immigrants looking for work during beginnings of century XX. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 26 July 2007 )
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Youth development in the Caribbean has assumed a far more complex and challenging character in recent times.
Prevailing economic, social and political factors and policies have not only conspired to undermine the capacity of the state to perform its role as a medium to facilitate economic and social justice but has also diminish the prevalence of traditional modes of socialization and indeed the influence of institutions such as family, church, schools, the state apparatus and even youth clubs.
The truth is many young persons have successfully managed the challenges posed by these socio-economic, socio-political and socio-cultural realities and are making significant contributions to the development of their communities and societies. |
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