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Health and Youth Employment
1. Identifying the links between HIV / AIDS and youth Employment
2. Providing Health Education: Increasing employment prospects for youth
Gender and Youth Employment
3. Building gender sensitivity into youth employment; addressing social barriers for women to gaining sustainable employment
4. Increasing young women's access to education and vocational training
5. Encouraging young women to assume leadership for employment and equity
Enterpreneurship and Youth Employment
6. Extending micro-edit: A path to sustainable livelihoods for youth
7. Engaging the private sector in developing and promoting youth employment programs
8. Promoting enterpreneurship for youth
9. Defining the rold of international financial and donor institutions in providing increased lending for youth employment programs
10. Looking at innovative ways to promote renewable energy businesses for rural youth
11. Promoting social enterprenuership
12. Promoting eco-enterprenuership
Using information and communications technology to provide youth employment oppurtunities
13. Strategies for introducing ICT to youth
14. ICT and Workforce Skills Training / Career Development
15. ICT and new Community based Employment and Self Employment oppurtunities for Youth
16. TeleEnterprise Centers and "Netprenuership" programs for Youth
17. Youth as the engine for Digital Empowerment of People, Communities and Civil Society in the new Digital Age
Youth Employment in Agriculture and the Informal Sector
18.Promoting agriculture as a means for sustainable livelihoods for youth
19. Highlighting youth employment oppurtunities in the on-farm/off-farm sector
Youth Employment in Challenging Environments
20. Introducing youth employment programs in post-conflict areas: Issues and methods
21. Introducing youth employment in repsonse to natural disasters: Issues and methods
22. Introducing youth employment programs to counter youth crime and violence
Enhancing the Employability of Youth
23. Creating relationships between employers and training institutions to provide youth with relevant skills to meet labor market demands
24. Mainstreaming marginalized youth into regular employment
25. Developing competency-based curricula to promote employment skills among youth withe relevant skills to meet labor market demands
26. Adopting employment focused curricula in schools to promote school-to-work transition
27. Trouble-shooting problems and increasing prospects of capacity building programs to promote youth employment
28. Developing demand-driven training programs for the youth to appropriately meet the needs of the job market
29. Incorporating sustainable development practicing educational curriculum to promote environmentally sustainable livelihoods for youth
The Role of Media in focussing attention on youth employment
30. Effective strategies to highlight youth employment issues in the media
31. Methods for collaborating with media to address youth employment issues
Leadership and Networking to promote youth employment
32. Developing youth leadership to promote youth employment
33. Developing youth advocacy for promoting sustainable livelihoods
34. Developing effective linkages between youth networks between youth sectors and formal employment sectors
35. Getting high-level government commitment to youth programs and Summit goals
36. Lobbying Governement (at the local and national levels) to implement effective strategies to promote youth employment
Promoting Youth Employment at Grassroots Level
37. Designing innovative youth employment programs
38. Seeing youth as assets; Integrating youth into the development process
The Role of the Public Sector in Promoting Youth Employment
39. Government policies and their impact on promoting youth employment
40. Overcoming barriers to youth employment initiatives
41. Financing youth employment
The Role of International Development: Aid in Promoting Youth Employment
42. Focusing aid and development assistance to promote youth employment
43. Developing linkages between youth networks, and donors and foundations to promote unique youth employment programs
Special Interest Areas
44. Addressing issues and concerns for employment of indigenous youth
45. Providing skills training to integrate street children into the formal workforce
46. Effective strategies to decrease child labor and support skills training and development
47. Determining the effects of globalization on youth employment
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