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Table of ContentsTable of Contents..................................................................................................................................1

Event information.................................................................................................................................2

Contact for event information..........................................................................................................3

Overview...............................................................................................................................................3

Basic Information..............................................................................................................................3

Detailed Information........................................................................................................................4

Programme...........................................................................................................................................4

About Programme............................................................................................................................4

Day 1.................................................................................................................................................4

Session 1........................................................................................................................................5

Session 2........................................................................................................................................7

Session 4......................................................................................................................................12

Session 5......................................................................................................................................17

Session 8......................................................................................................................................24

Session 9......................................................................................................................................26

Session 10....................................................................................................................................30

Session 11....................................................................................................................................35

Session 13....................................................................................................................................37

Session 14....................................................................................................................................39

Session 15....................................................................................................................................44

Session 16....................................................................................................................................47

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Session 18....................................................................................................................................60

Session 19....................................................................................................................................64

Day 2...............................................................................................................................................71

Session 2......................................................................................................................................71

Session 3......................................................................................................................................74

Session 5......................................................................................................................................77

Session 7......................................................................................................................................81

Session 8......................................................................................................................................85

Session 9......................................................................................................................................87

Session 10....................................................................................................................................97

Session 11..................................................................................................................................103

Event information

Title of event

Innovations for Decent Jobs for Youth

Organizing entity

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Event page

https://www.ilo.org/employment/areas/youth-employment/WCMS_619685/lang--en/index.htm

Short description of event

The event provides a platform for governments, social partners, youth and civil society, private sector, foundations, UN entities and beyond to explore collaboration on innovations that work for decent jobs for youth under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Full description of event

Background

Today, over 66 million youth are without a job globally and nearly 145 million youth are working, yet living in poverty. Launched in 2016, Decent Jobs for Youth has evolved as the global initiative to scale up action and impact on youth employment under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

In 2017, partners of Decent Jobs for Youth prepared thematic plans of action anchored in rigorous and empirical evidence. The plans highlight what works, identify innovations, and offer concrete ideas to scale up action and impact across the thematic priorities . With a concrete value proposition, Decent Jobs for Youth launched its engagement platform in November 2017, expanding the alliance with strategic partners from governments, social partners, youth and civil society, private sector and beyond. It is centered on the commitments of partners to take joint action on youth employment at local, country, regional and global level in line with the strategy and guiding principles of Decent Jobs for Youth.

In 2018, Decent Jobs for Youth will be translating evidence into action at country level. To support scalability, partners will direct efforts towards identifying innovations that work. This effort includes initiating a conversation about innovative financing for youth employment and exploring cutting-edge mechanisms with potential for wide replication and high impact on labour market outcomes of youth.

Objective

The event brings together partners of Decent Jobs for Youth and other key youth employment actors to:

Stimulate innovative thinking and collaboration on youth employment advancing Decent Jobs for Youth’s strategy for 2018-2019.

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https://www.decentjobsforyouth.org/action

http://www.decentjobsforyouth.org/

https://www.decentjobsforyouth.org/themes

http://www.wwinye.org/

https://www.decentjobsforyouth.org/


Exchange lessons learned and good practices on innovative financing to scale up action on youth employment.

Create an open space for collaboration and networking under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, launch new commitments for Decent Jobs for Youth, and highlight how existing commitments translate our guiding principles into action.

SDGs

Goal 8 – Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

Contact for event information

Full Name

Felix Weidenkaff

Email

[email protected]

Contact number

+41 227998628

OverviewBasic Information

Event Dates

2-3 May 2018

Event Location

ILO, Geneva

e-report label

E-report

Event title:

Innovation for Decent Jobs for Youth

Banner

Shortcut: I:\COMMON\Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth\Events\2018-05_Decent Jobs for Youth\Report\banner

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mailto:[email protected]

URL(s) + Title


Event page

Document(s) + Title

http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_619623.pdf

Title: Event agenda

https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_625598.pdf

List of participants

Detailed Information

Executive summary:

Innovation for Decent Jobs for Youth was an event that provided a platform for governments, social partners, youth and civil society, private sector, foundations, UN entities and beyond to explore collaboration on innovations that work for decent jobs for youth under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The event was held at the International Labour Office in Geneva from 2-3 May 2018. It was a two-day event featured with conversation around innovations for Decent Jobs for Youth, and innovative financing for youth employment and exploring cutting-edge mechanisms with potential for wide replication and high impact on labour market outcomes of youth.

The event well well-evaluated by 237 participants from different sectors and countries who actively involved in diverse sessions of the event. The event also aimed to call for potential partners to join the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for youth, an inclusive alliance that brings together the resources and expertise of diverse partners to maximize the positive impact of investments into youth employment.

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Title Description URL

1 Photos Featured images

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3 Video: Partners in Action Innovating for Decent Jobs for Youth

Featured video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ7NnTkEOi8&index=22&list=PL8itJ-8Cfpcz0qSfjhFk7xXilWPXO1vU7

4 Video: Statement Featured https://www.youtube.com/watch?

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by Jayathma Wickramanayake

video v=na2BSl4GlRE&t=20s&index=30&list=PL8itJ-8Cfpcz0qSfjhFk7xXilWPXO1vU7

Video: Innovations for Decent Jobs for Youth – Dafne Sartorio

Featured video (media zone videos to be uploaded in the gallery)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdWYKTLOjn4&index=12&list=PL8itJ-8Cfpcz0qSfjhFk7xXilWPXO1vU7

5 Video: Results based financing promoting and measuring decent jobs for youth

Featured video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov5KGv58BYc&index=20&list=PL8itJ-8Cfpcz0qSfjhFk7xXilWPXO1vU7

Programme

About ProgrammeInnovations for Decent Jobs for Youth is a two-day event held at the ILO in Geneva from 2-3 May 2018. The event included plenary sessions, breakout sessions, marketplace sessions, and networking sessions. The event gathered 237 participants from governments, social partners, the UN System, youth and civil society, the private sector, regional institutions, parliamentarians, foundations, academia and the media.

Day 1Title

Innovative Action Day - Wednesday, 2 May 2018

Session 1

Start time

09:00

End time

09:15

Title + Description

Session title

OpeningSession description

Welcome by Sangheon Lee, ILO’s Director of the Employment Policy Department.Opening remarks by Moussa Oumarou, ILO’s Deputy Director-General for Field Operations & Partnerships.Venue

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Salle II

Session organizer (s)

ILO

Speaker(s) name + Organization + Designation + URL (s)

Speaker 1

Speaker name

Sangheon Lee

Speaker organization name

International Labour Organization

Speaker designation

Deputy Director-General for Field Operations & Partnerships

Description

Sangheon Lee is the Director of the Employment Policy Department of the International Labour Organization which leads ILO’s action for promoting full and productive employment by developing integrated employment, development and skills policies. Before his current position, he was the Special Adviser to the Deputy Director-General for Policy on Economic and Social Issues (2014-18), providing advice on analytical work, policy development and advocacy across a range of economic, employment and social issues as well as coordinating ILO’s work at multilateral fora such as G20, G7, and BRICS. Sangheon has written extensively on economic, employment and labour issues, including articles in the International Labour Review and Socio-Economic Review, as well as editing volumes under the global research project of Regulating for Decent Work (Palgrave Macmillan) and other research projects. He is also one of the main authors of ILO flagship reports such as the Global Wage Report and the World Employment and Social Outlook. He co-authored Working Time around the World (2007 Routledge). Sangheon holds a PhD in Economics from Cambridge University.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

N/A

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Speaker 2

Speaker name

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Moussa Oumarou



Speaker designation

Deputy Director-General for Field Operations & Partnerships

Description

Moussa Oumarou is the Deputy Director-General for Field Operations and Partnerships of the International Labour Organization. Before joining the ILO, Mr Oumarou occupied many positions in teaching and in public administration including Inspector in Technical Studies and Vocational Training and Secretary-General of the Ministry of National Education in Niger. Following this, he was appointed Minister of Public Services, Labour, Employment and Social Security from 1997 to 1999. Mr Oumarou started working for the ILO, first as a consultant for social dialogue, then as coordinator of a national project for the promotion of the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. He then became Chief Technical Advisor of the Regional Programme for the Promotion of Social Dialogue in French-speaking Africa. In 2006, he joined the ILO headquarters where he served as Senior Labour Administration and Labour Inspection Specialist. Mr Oumarou holds diplomas from the Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Béthune, the Ecole Normale Nationale de Lyon and the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan from which he graduated as Inspector of Technical Studies and Vocational Training.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

Linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/moussa-oumarou-33475083/

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Image (s) + Title + Description

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Video (s) + Title + Description

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYr-IzqpaaU&t=0s&list=PL8itJ-8Cfpcz0qSfjhFk7xXilWPXO1vU7&index=33

Opening of Innovations for Decent Jobs for Youth

URL (s) + Title

Testimonial + Name + Designation

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Quote Name Designation & organizationThe Global Initiative is an alliance of committed partners taking action across a variety of thematic priorities, sharing knowledge and leveraging resources for more and better jobs for youth.

Moussa Oumarou Mr, Deputy Director-General for Field Operations & Partnerships, International Labour Organization

Investing in youth means to invest into the future and present of our societies.

Sangheon Lee Mr, Director of the Employment Policy Department, International Labour Organization

Session 2

Start time

09:15

End time

10:30

Session title

A Future with Decent Jobs for Youth

Title + Description

Title

Future with Decent Jobs for Youth

Session description

In light of the continuous and rapid changes in the world of work, the opening panel focused on how to advance policy and global action to facilitate youth’s transition to decent work and accelerate progress towards a peaceful and sustainable future for young men and women. As job opportunities for young men and women are impacted by technological change, balancing supply and demand side policies remains critical in addressing both the quantity and quality of jobs for youth, including concerns over wages, informal jobs, and non-standard forms of employment. Social dialogue constitutes a strong avenue to deliver durable youth employment solutions today and in the future – fostering youth voices and protecting youth’s rights – and collaboration between governments, workers and employers should expand to education systems to ensure consistency in the school to work transition and facilitate skills accreditation and certification for youth with no formal education.

In fast changing labour markets, where uncertainty in skills forecasting is the norm, delivering job -relevant soft and hard skills and cultivating attitudes towards adaptability, up- and re-skilling, and lifelong learning are key to foster decent jobs for youth. Monitoring trends is crucial to ensure policies are transformative and positively impact long term prospects of young workers. Enabling a

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business environment with suitable legal and institutional frameworks is key to boost the development of enterprises and thus new jobs, and as new forms of employment driven by gig and platform economies emerge, it is vital to promote youth’s transition to the formal economy as well as access to social protection. Similarly, facilitating youth’s access to productive assets, including technology, can positively impact labour market outcomes in the rural economy, and bring about more inclusive hiring practices to promote decent work for young women.

Venue

Salle II


ILO


Speaker 1

Speaker name

H.E. Socorro Flores Liera


Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations Office in Geneva

Speaker designation

Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations Office in Geneva

Description

H.E. Socorro Flores Liera was appointed Permanent Representative of Mexico to United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland in September 2017. She has a Law degree from Universidad Iberoamericana and Postgraduate studies in international law at the Faculty of Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 1992 she joined the Mexican Foreign Service and since 2012 has the rank of Ambassador. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs she has served as Director of International Law in the Legal Office, Chief Advisor in the Undersecretariat for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Director General for Global Issues and Director General for American Regional Organizations and Mechanisms. Abroad, she has been posted to the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations in New York as legal advisor and to the Permanent Mission to International Organizations based in Vienna. From 2006 to 2007, she was Head of the Office of the International Criminal Court to the United Nations, based in New York. She has participated in the negotiation of various international instruments on public international law, international criminal law and climate change. From September 2015 to September 2017 she served as Undersecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean in the Secretariat for Foreign Affairs.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

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Twitter:

https://twitter.com/FloresLiera

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Speaker 2

Speaker name

Roberto Suárez Santos


International Organisation of Employers

Speaker designation

Acting Secretary-General

Description

Roberto Suárez Santos was appointed Deputy Secretary-General at the International Organization of Employers Secretariat in December 2012 and currently serves as Acting Secretary-General since March 2018. He is a trained lawyer with experience in European and international labour law, as well as in international relations. Within the IOE, he is mainly in charge of managing, coordinating and supporting the business presence at the ILO. Prior to his appointment, Roberto was based in Tunisia, working as the ILO Programme Director for the promotion of youth employment in the Maghreb region. Before that, he worked at the Spanish Confederation of Employer’s Organisations (CEOE) in various capacities ranging from comparative labour policies and labour relations to youth unemployment and social and employment policy. His most recent position at the CEOE was as Head of European and International Social Policy, where he managed, implemented and evaluated social and youth employment projects. Roberto has also been involved in academia. He has taught European Social Law as an associate professor at both the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas in Spain.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

Twitter

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40ioevoice&src=typd

Image


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https://twitter.com/search?q=@ioevoice&src=typd

https://twitter.com/FloresLiera

Speaker 3

Speaker name

Plamen Dimitrov


Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria

Speaker designation

President

Description

Plamen Dimitrov is the President of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Bulgaria (CITUB). Mr Dimitrov was elected CITUB President in 2010. He is also a member of the governing body of the International Labour Organization and member of the Executive Committee of the European Confederation of Trade Unions, the European Economic and Social Committee, and of the Pan-European Regional Council of the International Trade Union Confederation.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

Linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/plamen-dimitrov-0a82917a/

Image


Speaker 4

Speaker name

Anna Fendley


United Steelworkers

Speaker designation

Young trade unionist, Legislative Representative for the United Steelworkers

Description

Anna Fendley is a policy advocate for the United Steelworkers, the largest industrial union in North America. Her portfolio includes health and safety, climate and clean energy, labour rights, social

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/plamen-dimitrov-0a82917a/

protection, and young workers. She also serves on the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) Global Youth Committee where she aided in the effort to create a global economic platform for young workers. Anna earned her BS and MPH from Boston University.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/steelworkers

Image


Speaker 5

Speaker name

Noella Moshi


West Africa Vocational Education Academies

Speaker designation

Young social entrepreneur and Programs Lead at West Africa Vocational Education Academies

Description

Noella Moshi is the Programs Lead at West Africa Vocational Education (WAVE). Noella is passionate about designing for scale. Prior to her role at WAVE, she was on the founding team of African Leadership University (ALU) Education where she directed Marketing. Noella co-developed Goodbye Malaria, a social impact venture that works with private and non-profit organisations to eliminate malaria. Noella holds a Masters in Clinical Science and Immunology from the University of Cape Town, is a Mandela-Rhodes scholar, and a Praxis Fellow.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/NoellaMo

Linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/noella-moshi-51470227/

Image

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/noella-moshi-51470227/

https://twitter.com/NoellaMo


Speaker 6

Speaker name

Gunilla von Hall


Svenska Dagbladet

Speaker designation

Foreign Correspondent

Description

Gunilla von Hall is a foreign correspondent for the major Swedish daily newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet. She is based at the U.N. European headquarters in Geneva. Ms. von Hall covers the United Nations, human rights, international, humanitarian and economic affairs. She often travels for stories on these issue in the field and in conflict areas. Ms. von Hall has reported on wars and conflicts in more than 40 countries, including Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Turkey, Bosnia, Rwanda, Burundi, Colombia and Sri Lanka. Ms. von Hall is the former President of the United Nations Correspondent´s Association in Geneva (ACANU). She has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Swiss Press Association (APES). At present, she is a committee member of the U.N. Correspondent´s Association.

Type of speaker

Moderator

URLs

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/GunillavonHall

Linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gunilla-von-hall-a512b517/

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A Future with Decent Jobs for Youth

URL (s) + Title


Quote Name Designation & organizationMore evidence on how new forms of employment are evolving, including in the gig and platform economy in developing economies, are urgently needed.

Roberto Suárez Santos Acting Secretary-General, International Organisation of Employers

We need better cooperation between unions, employers and educational systems, better enforcement of laws, skills accreditation and certification for young people with no formal education.

H.E. Socorro Flores Liera Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Permanent Mission of Mexico to United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva

Session 4

Start time

10:50

End time

11:45

Session title

Partners in Action: Innovating for Decent Jobs for Youth

Title + Description

Session title

Partners in Action: Innovating for Decent Jobs for Youth

Session description

Youth employment stakeholders worldwide work to ensure that young people have access to decent work. The Decent Jobs for Youth Initiative brings these stakeholders together as partners to achieve this common goal. In this session, the value of an overarching framework and shared priorities was highlighted, so that investments are not fragmented but rather rooted on a joint strategy and shared guiding principles to achieve greater impact. The increasing commitment of private sector partners

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as active actors was reinforced, including their direct contributions in the form of apprenticeships, paid internships, and engaging their employees as mentors for youth. For instance, International Youth Organism for IberoAmerica commits to organize National Youth Forums to promote the conversations and participation of young people and social actors to identify challenges and strategies to strength youth employment. Nestlé’s commitment is to help 10 million young people around the world have access to economic opportunities by 2030. Citi Foundation commits to prepare 500,000 young people, ages 16-24, in cities around the world for today’s competitive job market by 2020.

Commitments in two specific areas were stressed: soft skills and rural economies. With a growing awareness of the value of soft skills, investments are integrating soft skills development to support youth’s successful transition into the world of work, paying particular attention to the elements of gender and inclusivity. Likewise, the creation of opportunities for young people in rural economies among relevant value chains is crucial, and the use of new technologies can help attract youth’s interest in rural activities. Partnering through the Global Initiative, expansion on these and other efforts can create sustainable positive change for young people everywhere.

Venue

Salle II


FAO, Citi Foundation, OIJ, Nestlé, ITC


Speaker 1

Speaker name

Antonio Correa do Prado


Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsSpeaker designation

Deputy Director for Social Policies and Rural Institutions

Description

Antonio Correa do Prado, Brazilian economist, Antonio Prado assumed the position of Deputy Director of the Social Policies and Rural Institutions of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in November 2017. He is the former Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), having been appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, in November 2009. During most of his professional career, Antonio Prado has specialized in the analysis of technological changes in industry and their impact on economic development, the labour market and Brazil’s industrial relations. Doctor in economy, over the past few years, he has focused on anti-inflationary and development policies, first as Economic Advisor to the President of the Government seat in the Brazilian Senate (2003-

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2004), and later as Head Officer for Government Affairs of the Presidency of the Brazilian National Bank for Economic and Social Development, BNDES (2005-2009). He has been professor at the Catholic University in São Paulo, and more recently, at the Rio Branco Institute of Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He holds a Master’s Degree in industrial economics and a PhD in economic development policies from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP).

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

N/A

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Speaker 2

Speaker name

Kathryn Rowan


NestléSpeaker designation

Vice President for Human Resources for the Americas and Global Youth Initiative Human Resources Lead

Description

Kathryn Rowan has had a 21 year career with Nestlé and has been Head of Human Resources for Zone Americas, Nestlé S.A. with accountability for North, Middle and South America, based in Vevey, Switzerland since September 2015. She also has accountability within the HR Function to lead the Global Youth Initiative for Nestlé and is member of the Global Youth Steering Committee chaired by Laurent Freixe, CEO, Zone Americas, Nestle S.A. Prior to this and from 2012, she held the position of Global Head of Talent & Organization Development for Nestlé S.A.. In this role, she was accountable for leadership development, gender balance and diversity, resourcing, performance management and senior executive succession planning. She joined Nestlé in 1997 in Canada, where she led the Corporate Affairs and Communication function until 2008, then was appointed Senior Vice President Human Resources & Corporate Affairs, which she led until 2012. Prior to Nestlé she worked on behalf of the Food and Consumer Goods sector to positively influence labour, environmental and dairy policy issues. During this time, she served as Executive Director of the Canadian Grocery Producers Council, a sectoral labour-management training organization aimed at developing training programs in the Food and Consumer Goods Sector. Throughout her career she has been actively involved in industry and not-for-profit boards. She is a mother of two, passionate about her family, her work and making a difference in the lives of others.

Type of speaker

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Speaker

URLs

Twitter

https://twitter.com/Nestle

Linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryn-rowan-97567b41/

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Speaker 3

Speaker name

Florencia Spangaro


Citi Foundation

Speaker designation

Director of Programs

Description

Florencia Spangaro is the Director of Programs at the Citi Foundation, heading up the organization’s global grant and volunteering programs. In this capacity, she leads the Program team in strategy design and execution of key initiatives, including Pathways to Progress, Community Progress Makers, and Global Community Day. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2010, she worked for Citi’s Europe, Middle East and Africa regional Corporate Citizenship office where she was responsible for coordinating philanthropic and volunteering programs across the region. Before joining Citi, Florencia worked for the Argentine government and held various positions in the NGO sector, specifically in the area of human rights. Florencia holds a Master’s Degree in Corporate Social Responsibility from Metropolitan University in London and a Master’s Degree in International and Comparative Legal Studies from University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

Twitter

https://twitter.com/florenciaspan

Linkedin

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryn-rowan-97567b41/

https://twitter.com/Nestle

https://www.linkedin.com/in/florencia-spangaro-82ba69b/

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Speaker 4

Speaker name

Alejandra Sáenz


International Youth Organization for Ibero-America

Speaker designation

Employment Director

Description

Alejandra Sáenz is the Director of International Relations of the International Youth Organization for Ibero-America (OIJ), she has been working on the promotion of the public and private alliance to engage young people to achieve the sustainable development goals and their participation in the Ibero-American Youth Pact, signed by the Heads of State of the 21 countries of the region. She joined the OIJ in 2013, where she became coordinator of youth employment and entrepreneurship programs, and later, director of that department. Sáenz has a Masters on Marketing and Sales and a Masters Degree in Public Administration Management and a background on Political Sciences.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

Linkedin

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandra-s%C3%A1enz-mora-793304146/

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Speaker 5

Speaker name

Susanna Pak


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International Trade Centre

Speaker designation

Multimedia Journalist

Description

Susanna Pak is a multimedia journalist who uses video, words and tweets to share stories about why #TradeMatters – and how it can work for the 99% – as a member of the Communications and Events team of the International Trade Centre (ITC) in Geneva, Switzerland. The Chicago native narrates and produces the ITC video news programme, Trade Compass, which highlights current trade issues around the world, putting an accent on connecting small businesses to global markets. Before joining ITC, Susanna reported for Bloomberg News in New York and produced stories for the TV station KHON2 News in Hawaii. Her work has been published by United Nations TV, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Businessweek, MarketWatch, UPI, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post and The Miami Herald, among others.

Type of speaker

Moderator

URLs

Twitter

https://twitter.com/susannapak

Linkedin

https://www.linkedin.com/in/susannapak/

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Partners in Action Innovating for Decent Jobs for Youth

URL (s) + Title


Quote Name Designation & organization

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Youth + decent work = autonomy. We need scenarios where being young is being a protagonist to decent work.

Alejandra Saenz Employment Director, International Youth Organization for Ibero-America

Providing young people with soft skills and an entrepreneurial mind set will help young people as the world of work is changing quickly.

Florencia Spangaro Director of Programs, Citi Foundation

It’s not enough to act on motivation, we need policies and dialogue between private and public entities.

Antonio Correa do Prado Deputy Director for Social Policies and Rural Institutions, FAO

Session 5

Start time

11:45

End time

12:30

Session title

Priorities for action on youth employment

Title + Description

Session title

Priorities for action on youth employment

Session description

The Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth was launched with the goal to scale up action and impact on youth employment through effective, innovative and evidence-based interventions. In 2017, partners of the Global Initiative jointly developed thematic plans for eight key priority areas. Following a presentation by ILO’s Sukti Dasgupta on the Decent Jobs for Youth initiative, partners delivered lightning talks to introduce proposed actions across these priority areas:

1. Digital skills for youth , presented by Kemal Huseinovic, Chief of the Infrastructure, Enabling Environment and E-Applications Department of the International Telecommunications Union: Equipping youth with digital skills present an unprecedented opportunity to connect youth with decent jobs, help employers fill jobs, and stimulate the economy.

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https://www.decentjobsforyouth.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Thematic-Plan-1-Digital-Skills.pdf

2. Quality apprenticeships , presented by Srinivas Reddy, ILO’s Chief of the Skills and Employability Branch: Supporting the development and scale-up of quality apprenticeships that are mutually beneficial for young people and enterprises.

3. Youth in the rural economy , presented by Mariangels Fortuny, ILO’s Head of Forestry, Agriculture, Construction and Tourism Unit: Facilitating efficient agri-business, value chains, trainings, entrepreneurship models, access to productive resources to help boost youth employment in rural areas.

4. Green jobs for youth , presented by Vic Van Vuuren, ILO’s Director of the Enterprises Department: Creating job opportunities through sustainable green infrastructure and fostering green entrepreneurial competencies for young people.

5. Youth entrepreneurship and self-employment , presented by Ashish Shah, Director Division of Country Programmes at the International Trade Centre: Enabling suitable regulatory and policy environments, developing new financing mechanisms, and building enhanced support systems to encourage the creation of youth-led enterprises and help young entrepreneurs succeed.

6. Youth transitioning to the formal economy , presented by Frédéric Lapeyre, ILO’s Head of Informal Economy Unit and Chief of the Development and Investment Branch (OIC): Upgrading informal apprenticeships, modernizing youth employment services, and promoting formal enterprises to support young people make positive transitions towards formal employment.

7. Youth in fragile situations , presented by Donato Kiniger-Passigli, ILO’s Senior Specialist Crisis Response: Using new technologies to facilitate skills training for hard-to-reach youth, forging new partnerships between public and private sectors, and integrating interventions in a strategic manner (e.g. Graduation Approach) to promote employment for young men and women in fragile environments.

8. Youth in hazardous occupations, presented by Beate Andrees, ILO’s Chief of the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Branch: Expanding knowledge to help youth and employers better understand and address occupational safety and health risks to help secure safe working conditions for young workers.

Venue

Salle II


ILO, ITU, ITC, UNESCO, FAO, UNEP, UNIDO, UNCDF, UNCTAD, UNHCR, UNDP


Speaker 1

Speaker name

Kemal Huseinovic


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https://www.decentjobsforyouth.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Thematic-Plan-6-Youth-transitioning-to-the-formal-economy.pdf

https://www.decentjobsforyouth.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Thematic-Plan-5-Youth-entrepreneurship.pdf

https://www.decentjobsforyouth.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Thematic-Plan-4-Green-Jobs.pdf

https://www.decentjobsforyouth.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Thematic-Plan-3-Youth-in-the-Rural-Economy.pdf

https://www.decentjobsforyouth.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Thematic-Plan-2-Quality-Apprenticeships.pdf

International Telecommunications Union

Speaker designation

Chief of the Infrastructure, Enabling Environment and E-Applications Department

Description

Kemal Huseinovic is the chief of the Department of Infrastructure, Enabling Environment and E-Applications of the International Telecommunications Union’s Telecommunication Development Bureau. His department promotes the use of ICT-based networks, services and applications, while ensuring the use of appropriate technologies to build or extend their information and communication infrastructure and adapt to the rapidly changing telecommunication and ICT environment. This includes the provision of guidelines and tools for the development of policy and regulatory frameworks, financing policies and strategies, development of telecommunication and IP-based networks, promotion of pervasive broadband deployment, digital broadcasting and spectrum management, and the use of reliable and cost-effective ICT applications while enhancing cyber-security. It covers also the promotion of access and use of telecommunications and ICTs for groups that have been marginalized in their access to current mainstream ICT services, including women, youth, indigenous people, persons with disabilities and people living in remote communities. Before joining ITU in 2014, Dr Huseinovic held several positions such as Director General of the Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Deputy Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Slovenia, Chief of staff and Foreign Policy Advisor of the Prime Minister in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was also a Professor at Sarajevo University, lecturing on “Business Models in Telecommunications” and “Systems and Services in Mobile Communications”. He holds two Master’s Degrees and a PhD in telecommunications and economy.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

Twitter

https://twitter.com/khuseinovic

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kemal-huseinovic-510660106/

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Speaker 2

Speaker name

Srinivas Reddy

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/kemal-huseinovic-510660106/

https://twitter.com/khuseinovic



Speaker designation

Chief of the Skills and Employability Branch

Description

Srinivas Reddy is Chief of the Skills and Employability Branch at the International Labour Organization in Geneva since January 2018. Prior to taking up this position at ILO Headquarters, he served as Country Director of the ILO Country Office in Bangladesh from 2013 to 2017. He also served as senior advisor on Technical and Vocational Education and Training and skills development specialist and has worked in ILO offices in India, Indonesia and Bangladesh. Srinivas’s professional career in industrial relations, skills development and general management has spanned over 30 years. He has extensive experience as skills development specialist and industrial relations expert working with a wide range of partners including employers’ and workers’ organizations having previously been employed by the Government of Andhra Pradesh in India, before joining the ILO. Srinivas has gained a wide range of skills and experience in skills development, social dialogue, human resource and general management.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/srinivas-reddy-98492729/

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Speaker 3

Speaker name

Mariangels Fortuny



Speaker designation

Head of Forestry, Agriculture, Construction and Tourism Unit

Description

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/srinivas-reddy-98492729/

Mariangels Fortuny is the head of the Forestry, Agriculture, Construction and Tourism Unit at the International Labour Organization’s Sectoral Policies Department. Mariangels has been working at the ILO since 1997, focusing primary on employment and rural development issues. Prior to her current post, she served as the Head of the Management Support Unit of Employment Sector. During her time at the Employment Sector Department, she undertook substantial country-level work on employment policy issues particularly in North Africa and Central and Eastern Europe and was actively involved in the ILO’s Youth Employment Programme, working closely with countries on the development of National Action Plans on youth employment. She also contributed to several major international initiatives such as the Youth Employment Network and the Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund. Mariangels has authored and co-authored several publications on demographic change, employment and skills development. She studied Economics and International Trade at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and University of Reading and holds a Master’s degree in European Economic Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariangels-fortuny-0b6035141/

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Speaker 4

Speaker name

Vic Van Vuuren



Speaker designation

Director of the Enterprises Department

Description

Vic Van Vuuren is the Director of the Enterprise Department at the International Labour Organization, Geneva. After completing a law degree Vic started his working career at the South African Department of Justice as a public prosecutor and magistrate. Thereafter he moved into the private sector as a corporate legal advisor and progressed later to executive positions in human resources for large corporates. Vic was later appointed as the Chief Operations Officer of the national unified business federation organisation - Business Unity South Africa, which he helped establish. In February 2009 Vic was appointed as the Director: International Labour Organization,

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Southern Africa. In January 2016 Vic was appointed as the Director Enterprises Department at the International Labour organisation Office, Geneva. Vic served on the South African Council for Higher Education and the International Labour Organisation Governing Body, the Council of the Pan African Employers’ Confederation, the South African Power Utility Research Advisory Board, Director of the La Rosa Spanish dance Company and vice Chairman of the Santos Professional Football Club.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vic-van-vuuren-b783216/

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Speaker 5

Speaker name

Ashish Shah



Speaker designation

Director Division of Country Programmes

Description

Ashish Shah is the Director Division of Country Programmes at the International Trade Centre (ITC). Ashish is a member of ITC’s Senior Management. He has been working at ITC for 17 years in different capacities and currently serves as Director of the Division of Country Programmes. Prior to joining ITC, he worked at the International Labour Office and then in the Office of the Special Coordinator for LDCs at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva. Ashish has been leading the development and implementation of trade-related projects and spearheading ITC’s resource mobilization efforts with key donors. He holds a PhD in Economics and is fluent in several languages.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

Twitter

https://twitter.com/AshishShah_ITC

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https://twitter.com/AshishShah_ITC


LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashish-shah-a9b0602/

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Speaker 6

Speaker name

Frédéric Lapeyre



Speaker designation

Head of Informal Economy Unit and Chief of the Development and Investment Branch (OIC)

Description

Frédéric Lapeyre is the head of the Informal Economy Unit at the Employment Policy Department of the International Labour Organization. He is a member of the ILO’s Coordination Team on “Formalization of the Informal Economy” and was a core member of the ILO Team in charge of the preparation of the Recommendation 204 on “The transition from the informal to the formal economy” adopted by the International Labour Conference in June 2015. Until recently, he managed the Programme d’activités pour l’emploi des Jeunes dans la province du Katanga, DR Congo. He holds a Ph.D in Development Studies and previously served as Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, Chairman of the Belgium Post-Graduate School for Development Studies, assistant professor at the Geneva Graduate School for Development Studies and Fulbright Post-doctoral fellow at Brown University (Watson Institute for International Studies). He has written extensively on development and employment related issues.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

Twitter

https://twitter.com/Fred_Lapeyre

Image


Speaker 7

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashish-shah-a9b0602/

Speaker name

Donato Kiniger-Passigli



Speaker designation

Senior Specialist Crisis Response

Description

Donato Kiniger-Passigli is the Coordinator of the Fragile States and Disaster Response Group in the Employment Policy Department of the International Labour Organization. He is a specialist in crisis resolution, development cooperation, labour affairs and strategic communication. Having served in the United Nations system continuously since 1987, Donato has previously coordinated the public affairs of UNOCHA, OPCW and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Previously, Donato joined peace-keeping missions in former Yugoslavia (UNPROFOR) and Western-Sahara (MINURSO), from where he covered political affairs.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/donato-kiniger-passigli-ab24187/

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Speaker 8

Speaker name

Beate Andrees



Speaker designation

Chief of the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Branch

Description

Beate Andrees is the Chief of the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Branch of the International Labour Organization’s ILO Governance and Tripartism Department. The Branch promotes policy development, carries out research, and provides technical advisory services on child

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labour, forced labour, non-discrimination and freedom of association and collective bargaining. Previously, Beate acted as the head of the ILO Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour. In this role, she coordinated the ILO’s efforts towards the adoption of a new Protocol and Recommendation on contemporary forms of forced labour in June 2014 and managed technical cooperation programmes in various countries. Before joining the ILO, she worked for the German Parliament and as a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin. She has published widely on issues related to fundamental labour rights, migration and human trafficking.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

Twitter

https://twitter.com/BeateAndrees

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/beate-andrees-55ba8b17/

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Speaker 9

Speaker name

Sukti Dasgupta



Speaker designation

Chief of the Employment and Labour Market Policies Branch

Description

Sukti Dasgupta is Chief of the Employment and Labour Market Policies Branch in the International Labour Office in Geneva, which includes ILO’s portfolio on youth employment. She previously worked at the ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok and in the field offices in South Asia and East Asia. She holds a PhD degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge, UK. She has published widely in the areas of employment, poverty and gender. She has extensive experience in working with policymakers on employment and labour market policies.

Type of speaker

Moderator

URLs

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/beate-andrees-55ba8b17/

https://twitter.com/BeateAndrees

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sukti-dasgupta-95677334/?originalSubdomain=ch

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URL (s) + Title

Presentation: Priorities for action on youth employment_Sukti

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Quote Name Designation & organizationFacilitating efficient agri-business, value chains, trainings, entrepreneurship models, access to productive resources to help boost youth employment in rural areas.

Mariangels Fortuny Head of Forestry, Agriculture, Construction and Tourism Unit, International Labour Organization

Upgrading informal apprenticeships, modernizing youth employment services, and promoting formal enterprises to support young people make positive transitions towards formal employment.

Frédéric Lapeyre Head of Informal Economy Unit and Chief of the Development and Investment Branch (OIC), International Labour Organization

Session 6

Start time

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12:30

End time

13:30

Session title

Networking lunch

Title + Description

Session title

Networking lunch

Session description

The networking lunch provides an opportunity for participants to network in an informal setting, and to facilitate the discussion beyond the plenary sessions.

Venue

Bar des délégués R3


ILO


N/A

URLs

N/A

Session 7

Start time

13:40

End time

13:40

Session title

Statement by Jayathma Wickramanayake, UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth

Title + Description

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Session title

Statement by Jayathma Wickramanayake, UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth

Session description

Introduced by Gunilla von Hall, Svenska Dagbladet

Venue

Salle II


ILO, Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth


Speaker 1

Speaker name

Jayathma Wickramanayake


Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth

Speaker designation

UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth

Description

Jayathma Wickramanayake (born 22 November 1990) currently serves as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth. Appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres in June 2017. Prior to taking her role as the Envoy, Wickramanayake led youth development efforts both on an international and national level in her home country, Sri Lanka. In this regard, she co-founded the youth organization Hashtag Generation, aimed at increasing the civic and political engagement of Sri Lankan young people, particularly young women. Wickramanayake also served as the country’s first-ever Youth Delegate and actively participated in the establishment of World Youth Skills Day.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayathma-wickramanayake-4409105a/

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayathma-wickramanayake-4409105a/

Twitter

https://twitter.com/jayathmadw

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Speaker 2

Speaker name

Gunilla von Hall


Svenska Dagbladet

Speaker designation


Description


Type of speaker

Moderator

URLs

Twitter:


Linkedin:


Image


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https://twitter.com/jayathmadw


N/A


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na2BSl4GlRE&index=29&list=PL8itJ-8Cfpcz0qSfjhFk7xXilWPXO1vU7

Statement by Jayathma Wickramanayake

URL (s) + Title


Quote Name Designation & organizationInvestment in youth can accelerate progress towards peaceful and sustainable future.

Jayathma Wickramanayake UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth

We need coordinated planning, and investments with a focus on developing skills of the young people, compatible with the reality of age of the technology and labour market demands.

Jayathma Wickramanayake UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth

Session 8

Start time

13:40

End time

14:00

Session title

Creating space for innovation

Title + Description

Session title


Session description

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Innovation is a critical factor across the different work streams of the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth. It is rooted in the recognition that disruptive innovations are key to reach the scale and impact needed to address the youth employment challenge, in a rapidly changing world of work. In this context, this session focused on how to innovate with the ultimate goal of boosting labour market outcomes of youth. Partners should challenge the status quo by encouraging an innovative culture and by finding ways to both strategize and operate in new and different ways. Innovation stems from people, making greater diversity in organizations a key factor to spur innovative approaches.

As to ways to enhance innovation capabilities within organizations, a prerequisite for the creation of a space for innovation is a committed leadership team willing to make calculated investments and also take this leap of faith. In terms of innovative processes, it is important to allow for innovation ‘slack time’ – that means, creating time for teams to innovate, rallying, and coming together to assess the ideas. Organizations may also consider setting up an innovation challenge, and when pursuing new ideas it is paramount to have a short prototyping cycle, as disruptive change often entails a high failure rate. While technology is often perceived as the force driving innovation, it is key to keep in mind that people drive innovation, and innovation drives change.

Venue

Salle II


ILO, Accenture


Speaker 1

Speaker name

Heidi Strawson


Accenture

Speaker designation

Global Giving Lead

Description

Heidi Strawson is part of the global Corporate Citizenship team at Accenture. She leads the company’s Global Giving programme, managing a portfolio of partnerships with non-profit organizations and multi-million and multi-year commitments. She informs Accenture’s corporate giving strategy, social impact innovation portfolio and various of the company’s more strategic non-profit partnerships. Prior to this role Heidi was part of Accenture’s Organizational Change Strategy practice, working with various UK government and United Nations clients.

Type of speaker

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Speaker

URLs

Twitter

https://twitter.com/HeidiStrawson

Image


Speaker 2

Speaker name

Gunilla von Hall


Svenska Dagbladet

Speaker designation


Description


Type of speaker

Moderator

URLs

Twitter:


Linkedin:



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https://twitter.com/HeidiStrawson


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcny8_zEmSY&index=27&list=PL8itJ-8Cfpcz0qSfjhFk7xXilWPXO1vU7


URL (s) + Title

Presentation: I:\COMMON\Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth\Events\2018-05_Decent Jobs for Youth\Presentations


Quote Name Designation & organizationCompanies need to diversify to fuel competitive advantages and to broaden their reach of young people

Heidi Strawson Ms, Accenture

It is important to measure the value when doing rapid prototyping because it has a high failure rate, and some of this is a leap of faith requires calculated investments.

Heidi Strawson Ms, Accenture

Session 9

Start time

14:00

End time

14:45

Session title

Quality Apprenticeships: Challenges and innovations

Title + Description

Session title

Quality Apprenticeships: Challenges and innovations

Session description

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Apprenticeships can offer a reliable path to stable employment for youth and, at the same time, be an effective mechanism to meet the needs of enterprises. Despite widely perceived benefits of quality apprenticeships, many countries, particularly in the developing world, face challenges in establishing, scaling up and sustaining them. In this interactive session, panellists and participants discussed challenges and innovations to strengthen quality apprenticeships. Quality of apprenticeships needs to be promoted, by paying special attention to the legal or policy barriers to train young people, and by engaging educators with ad-hoc working groups. Appropriate remuneration is another important aspect: if it is not guaranteed, either apprenticeships risk becoming only available to well-off youth, or apprentices need to simultaneously hold another job to make ends meet, often resulting in large drop-out rates. In this context, a key role for governments is to ensure opportunities are effectively available to disadvantaged youth, including young women and individuals with disabilities. In some contexts, the information and perception of apprenticeships remains a challenge, making initiatives to increase the knowledge and promote the benefits of apprenticeships paramount. For example, through a business-driven alliance, the Global Apprenticeship Network works with private sector companies, business federations and associations to encourage business initiatives to create skills and employment opportunities for youth.

Venue

Salle XI


ILO and UNESCO


Speaker 1

Speaker name

Deborah Martierrez


U.S. Department of Labor

Speaker designation

International Relations Officer

Description

Deborah Martierrez is an International Relations Officer in the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs, Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking. She joined the Department in 2011 and has managed over 60 million USD in international technical assistance projects. These projects support the goal of combatting child labor and forced labor through government capacity building, providing services to victims of child labor and forced labor, improving country laws and policies, and preventing child labor and forced labor. She specializes in issues related to hazardous adolescent work, youth work-based training, project monitoring and evaluation, and the Latin America and Caribbean region.

Type of speaker

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Speaker

URLs

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah-martierrez-6871074/

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Speaker 2

Speaker name

Regula Schegg


Global Apprenticeship Network

Speaker designation

Chief Operating Officer

Description

Regula Schegg has over 20 years of international experience in the public and private sector. She currently acts as Chief Operating Officer for the Global Apprenticeship Network (GAN), overseeing programs, communications and operations. The GAN is a coalition of committed companies, international organizations and business and employers’ federations who create workreadiness programs for youth and foster skills for business. Prior to GAN, Regula worked with the Hilti Group in several senior leadership positions. During her tenure, she also established and managed a social enterprise in the Philippines, providing affordable housing technologies, livelihood and community development to the urban poor. Further, Regula worked in M&A, private equity, venture capital and microfinance. She graduated with an MBA in Global Management from Thunderbird, The School of Global Management, USA, and is an Aspen Institute First Movers Fellow. She further acts as advisor and coach to young women in business and women entrepreneurs in emerging markets.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

Twitter

https://twitter.com/RSchegg

Image

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https://twitter.com/RSchegg

https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah-martierrez-6871074/


Speaker 3

Speaker name

Zuzana Vaněčková


European Youth Forum

Speaker designation

Board Member

Description

Zuzana Vaněčková is a Board Member of the European Youth Forum, the platform of youth organisations in Europe representing more than 100 youth organisations and the voice of tens of millions of young people from all over Europe. Zuzana is responsible for the economic and social inclusion agenda, advocating for social rights of young people. She is a youth activist fighting against unpaid internships, low quality jobs and social injustice. Apart from being a Board Member, Zuzana is finishing her master´s studies in Adult Education and Personal Management at Charles University in Prague.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

Twitter

https://twitter.com/zuzana_van

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Speaker 4

Speaker name

Ashwani Aggarwal



Speaker designation

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https://twitter.com/zuzana_van

Skills Development Systems Specialists

Description

Ashwani Aggarwal is a Skills Development Systems Specialists and global lead for work-based learning including on quality apprenticeships at the International Labour Organization (ILO). He served as ILO’s Youth Employment Coordinator for Africa and Senior Skills and Employment Specialist in Africa. Before joining the ILO, Ashwani worked in the Ministry of Labour and Employment and the private sector in India where he managed key components of a World Bank’s vocational training project. He has provided policy advice and capacity development services on skills development and youth employment to over 30 countries in all regions and established innovative skills policy systems and programs with positive impacts on employment outcomes and social inclusion. His areas of work range from quality apprenticeships and training for rural economic empowerment to recognition of prior learning and informal apprenticeships. Ashwani holds a Ph.D. degree in Technical Vocational Education and Training policy, systems and institutions and is an avid researcher and his work has been captured in various publications.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

Twitter

https://twitter.com/ashwani_agg

URLs



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URL (s) + Title


Quote Name Designation & organizationAn important role of the government is making sure young people have access to apprenticeship placements and that there are opportunities for disadvantaged groups such as women and people with

Deborah Martierrez Ms, U.S. Department of Labor

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https://twitter.com/ashwani_agg

disabilities.We want to expand the understanding of people that there are great opportunities for careers, especially in sectors related to new technologies. We want to change for the better the reputation of apprenticeships.

Ashwani Aggarwal Mr, International Labour Organization

Session 10

Start time

14:00

End time

14:45

Title + Description

Session title

Creativity and innovation in rural youth employment programmes

Session description

With approximately 46 per cent of the world’s population, many of them young people, currently living in rural areas, young women and men can be catalysts for economic growth and development in rural economies. In this session, participants shared experiences of creative and innovative approaches to promote decent work for youth in the rural economy. Ensuring that young men and women in rural areas have access to an abundance and variety of quality jobs is not just important for their personal wellbeing, but also key to reducing poverty and achieving global food security. Potential channels to advance youth employment at global level include efforts to make agriculture attractive for young people, foster knowledge about business in agricultural areas beyond agronomy, training and mentoring of young farmers, and providing access to finance for young people. Technology, in particular, can and should play an important role in attracting youth to agriculture.

Among innovative programmes discussed during the session, YAPASA in Zambia takes a market facilitation approach to promote decent jobs for rural youth and improved food security through the development of sustainable rural enterprises by providing income credit and insurance for farmers. In Nigeria, the Youth Employment in Agriculture Programme provides a framework for supporting targeted State-level investments to complement and leverage on-going programmes for youth employment in agriculture, with the aim to develop young commercial farmers and agri-business entrepreneurs along priority value chains. Further evidence comes from research on Ghana’s and Uganda’s experiences, highlighting the importance of diversifying farmers’ income and risk by growing multiple crops and pursuing a wide variety of activities.

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Venue

Salle II


FAO; ILO


Speaker 1

Speaker name

Meredith Lee


Mastercard Foundation

Speaker designation

Associate Director, Country Program Management

Description

Meredith Lee is the Associate Director, Country Program Management at the Mastercard Foundation. She is responsible for the operational roll out of the Foundation’s Young Africa Works strategy which focuses on economic opportunities for young people in Africa. Meredith also manages a portfolio of youth programming in a variety of sectors including technology, tourism and hospitality, and agri-food systems. Her work focuses on the pressing issues of young people as they transition into work opportunities in formal and informal sectors. Meredith has almost 20 years of experience working with youth both in Canada and internationally in experiential education, program design, and implementation. Prior to joining the Mastercard Foundation, Meredith was the Director of Programs for Street Kids International. She holds an Honours Bachelor Degree in International Development Studies from the University of Toronto, Canada and a Master’s in Public Administration from Queen’s University, Canada.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

Twitter

https://twitter.com/MastercardFdn

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Speaker 2

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Speaker name

Anita Tiessen


Youth Business International

Speaker designation

CEO

Description

Anita Tiessen is the CEO of Youth Business International, the global network of expert organisations focused on helping young people start, grow or sustain their own business. Her career has focused on international development and human rights, with previous CEO or senior executive roles at the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, UNICEF UK, and Amnesty International. Now based in the UK, she initially worked as a journalist and government communicator in her native Canada. She holds a Masters Degree in Public Policy and Management from York University.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anita-tiessen-9080917/

URLs


Speaker 3

Speaker name

Peter Wobst


Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Speaker designation

Senior Economist and Team Leader of the Decent Rural Employment Team

Description

Peter Wobst is Senior Economist and Team Leader of the Decent Rural Employment Team within the Social Policies and Rural Institutions division of the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. His current work areas include decent work issues, youth employment, child labour prevention and migration with a strong focus on informal agricultural occupations in rural areas of developing

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countries. Prior to this, Dr. Wobst was the Coordinator of the FAO component of the EC-financed All ACP Agricultural Commodity Programme, which aimed at strengthening stakeholder capacities to develop and implement sustainable commodity strategies. From 2005 to 2008, he was an officer at the European Commission, working at the Sustainability in Agriculture Unit of IPTS (DG JRC) in Seville and subsequently at the Competitiveness and Economic Reforms Unit at DG Enterprise and Industry in Brussels, where he worked on the assessment of Lisbon Strategy type structural reforms and the analysis of the EU energy and climate change package. Prior to 2005, Dr. Wobst worked for about a decade for the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, DC.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

N/A

Image


Speaker 4

Speaker name

Yann Wyss


Nestlé

Speaker designation

Senior Manager, Social & Environmental Impact

Description

Yann Wyss joined Nestlé in 2011 to develop and implement Nestlé’s Human Rights Due Diligence Program across the company’s operations and supply chain. He started his career at the Swiss Foreign Ministry, where he was actively involved in the creation of the UN Human Rights Council. He then joined the team of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Pr. John Ruggie where he was in charge of the development of the UN Framework and Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. He was also a Program Officer at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, where he contributed to the review process of the IFC Performance Standards and advised IFC staff and clients on project-related human rights issues. Yann holds three Master’s degrees, in International Human Rights Law, Economics & Social Sciences, and Political Science.

Type of speaker

Speaker

URLs

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LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ywyss/

Twitter

https://twitter.com/search?q=Yann%20Wyss&src=typd

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Speaker 5

Speaker name

Francesca Dalla Valle



Speaker designation

Youth Employment Specialist

Description

Francesca Dalla Valle is a Youth Employment Specialist with over 15 years of experience in rural employment and youth specific issues. Francesca currently works at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ Decent Rural Employment Team in the Social Policies and Rural Institutions Division in Rome. She works on policy support, policy dialogues as well as programmes and projects design, development and coordination. Francesca holds a degree in International Relations and Peace and Conflict studies, and a master degree in International Economics from the London Metropolitan University. She has previously worked and collaborated, amongst others, with the International Labour Organization, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesca-dalla-valle-b9940b5/

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/ywyss/

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El’vis Beytullayev



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Rural Economy Specialist

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El’vis Beytullayev is the Rural Economy Specialist at the Forestry, Agriculture, Construction and Tourism Unit of the International Labour Organization’s Sectoral Policies Department. El’vis has been working at the ILO since 2009. He is involved in various global and country-level initiatives on the promotion of decent work in rural areas. He leads the ILO’s programme on plantations, which includes, among others, work in Indonesia’s palm oil sector and Malawi’s tea industry. Previously, he served as an External Relations Officer at the ILO’s Partnerships and Development Cooperation Department, where he was responsible for United Nations affairs and ILO collaboration with other UN entities. Prior to joining the ILO, El’vis worked as a researcher at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Brussels, Belgium, focusing on the linkages between economic and social issues and security. He received his PhD from the Centre of International Studies at the University of Cambridge and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Cambridge and Harvard Universities.

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Quote Name Designation & organizationSkills gap is the key in operating agricultural technology, which can attract

Meredith Lee Associate Director, Country Program Management, Mastercard Foundation

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young people to work in agriculture.

Session 11

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14:00

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14:45

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Young workers in hazardous occupations

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This thematic session focused on how to incentivize large-scale industry-wide interventions promoting safe jobs for youth in hazardous occupations. Supporting the transition out of hazardous occupations constitutes an essential pillar of the ongoing efforts to promote high standards of occupational safety and health for young workers - a basic human right. Furthermore, working towards securing safe working conditions across the economy is valuable from an economic perspective as businesses’ market value tends to decrease when injury-related lawsuits are filed, and the lack of good practices and untrained workers may lead to inefficiencies in production and supply chains.

To promote safe jobs for youth at industry-wide scale, the significance of mobilizing long-term resources and stimulating partnerships across sectors to create more sustainable initiatives was stressed during the session. The engagement of the communities concerned was also emphasized as a key aspect to better understand the challenges, establish priorities, and set realistic goals and targets. Initiatives should then be scaled-up based on concrete evidence, highlighting the need to expand the knowledge base on ‘what works’.

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Salle VII


ILO


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Fabio Segura


Jacobs Foundation

Speaker designation

Head of International Programs

Description

Fabio Segura is Head of International Programs at Jacobs Foundation, where he is responsible for the strategic, financial, and operative direction of programs across Africa and Latin America since 2015. Previously he served as Senior Investment Manager at LGT Venture Philanthropy, where he was responsible to establish and grow the organization’s investments and operations in Latin America and the Caribbean from 2008 to 2014. From 2004 to 2007, he served as a Project Manager for the Center for Sustainability at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). During this time, he developed the center’s regional strategy for Latin America. Prior to his work in sustainability, Fabio served as a peace and development worker in Colombia. He has assisted local governments in vulnerable regions of the country in the design and delivery of peacebuilding initiatives. He 31 Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth also served as consultant for United Nations agencies, including UNODC, UNEP, UNICEF, and FAO.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabio-segura-0236161b/

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Benjamin Smith



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Senior Officer on Child Labour

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabio-segura-0236161b/

Benjamin Smith is a Senior Officer on Child Labour at the International Labour Organization’s Fundamental Principals and Rights at Work Branch. Benjamin supports ILO members States and workers’ and employers’ organizations in the development of policies and strategies to combat child labour, and contributes to the design and implementation of ILO’s global portfolio of projects against child labour. He develops Public-Private Partnerships to tackle child labour and promote decent work in supply chains in sectors including cocoa, garments, cotton, and paper and pulp. He began his career with the ILO in 2000 in Costa Rica, and from 2002-2006, led a ground-breaking project to combat the worst forms of child labour in El Salvador. He holds an M.A. in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. in International Studies from American University.

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https://twitter.com/benjamin4847



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Session 12

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14:45

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15:00

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Quick coffee

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Session 13Start time

15:00

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15:45

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Session title

Digital skills for youth

Session description

With millions of jobs requiring basic, intermediate and advanced digital skills in the coming decade, projections estimate a shortfall of skilled workers to fill these jobs. In the framework of the Digital Skills for Decent Jobs for Youth campaign, which aims to equip five million young people with job-ready digital skills by 2030, this session reviewed ongoing initiatives to prepare youth with relevant digital skills, increasing their employment prospects and helping to close skills gaps. Coding bootcamps were identified as one of the most promising approaches to provide rapid immersive training courses for young people. Opportunities to enhance training leveraging on advances in the areas of virtual reality and gamification were also highlighted. Among the major challenges identified were the diminishing long-term sustainability of many projects, difficulties in securing funding for scaling up after the pilot phase, and the lack of a clear regulatory framework around Artificial Intelligence.

As future actions to expand digital skills efforts through collaboration, the importance of integrating coding and computational thinking in school curricula and TVET programmes was stressed; tools such as the Digital Skills Toolkit can also be used to facilitate the development of comprehensive digital skills strategies. It was also noted that employers should be encouraged to reskill and upskills staff, and offer on-the-job training to provide specific coding skills and to increase the tenure of young people in companies. Addressing the gender digital divide and careful analysis of new trends to inform future investments remain critical to prepare youth for the future of work in the digital economy.

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William Natta



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Session 14

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15:00

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Session title

Connecting the dots: youth employment, environment and innovation

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Growth in the green economy can provide an opportunity to address the youth employment challenge by generating new job prospects for young men and women while improving environmental quality and climate resilience. As employment in the green economy often requires certain levels of education and specific skill sets, the key role of education and skills development to support young people in preparing for the green jobs opportunities was a key focus of this thematic session. It was highlighted that educational and skills training curricula should be adequately informed by market analyses of key green sectors and value chains, anticipating and monitoring skills needs of employers in the green economy. It was also noted that, as women are disproportionately affected by climate change since they are more subject to extreme weather-related displacements as primary caregivers, special attention should be paid to fostering training and job opportunities for young women.

Noting the importance of both public and private-led interventions to create and promote green jobs for youth, the scope for public employment programmes to complement job creation by the private sector and advance green jobs for youth was stressed. Public employment programmes can serve not only to generate job opportunities, but also target the most vulnerable youth and provide social safety nets while address environmental problems and promoting a circular “zero waste” economy. At the same time, private sector actors can be catalysts for innovation in the sector, reinforcing the value of multi-stakeholder partnerships to stimulating job creation for young women and men in green sectors.

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Salle XI


ILO, UNEP


Speaker 1

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Francesca Dalla Valle



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Description

Francesca Dalla Valle is a Youth Employment Specialist with over 15 years of experience in rural employment and youth specific issues. Francesca currently works at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ Decent Rural Employment Team in the Social Policies and Rural Institutions Division in Rome. She works on policy support, policy dialogues as well as programmes and projects design, development and coordination. Francesca holds a degree in International Relations and Peace and Conflict studies, and a master degree in International Economics from the London Metropolitan University. She has previously worked and collaborated, amongst others, with the International Labour Organization, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.

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Florencia Spangaro


Citi Foundation

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Director of Programs

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Florencia Spangaro is the Director of Programs at the Citi Foundation, heading up the organization’s global grant and volunteering programs. In this capacity, she leads the Program team in strategy design and execution of key initiatives, including Pathways to Progress, Community Progress Makers, and Global Community Day. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2010, she worked for Citi’s Europe, Middle East and Africa regional Corporate Citizenship office where she was responsible for coordinating philanthropic and volunteering programs across the region. Before joining Citi,

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Florencia worked for the Argentine government and held various positions in the NGO sector, specifically in the area of human rights. Florencia holds a Master’s Degree in Corporate Social Responsibility from Metropolitan University in London and a Master’s Degree in International and Comparative Legal Studies from University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies.

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Mito Tsukamoto



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Senior Expert on Employment Intensive Investments

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Mito Tsukamoto is a senior expert on Employment Intensive Investments within the Employment Policy Department of the International Labour Organization. Mito joined the ILO in 1994, where she has worked in various capacities – and has worked on sustainable infrastructure development since about 2005. Linking humanitarian livelihoods, employment policy and natural and physical infrastructure development, she has worked in Bangkok and in Geneva on community-driven efforts to use employment intensive investments through public works programmes (PWP) over the last 11 years. She led the ILO team in strengthening the synergies between public employment programmes(PEP), social protection floor and climate change adaptation to address the different multiple objectives of PWPs – and highlighting their economic, social and environmental impact in addressing the need for decent work and social justice. In her most recent posting, she has contributed to the ILO’s response to the global economic and financial crisis where she co-authored a policy paper on “Towards the right to work: Innovations in Public Employment Programmes (PEP)” a “Guidebook for designing innovative PEPs”, and managed a team in the development of the training course and material on the same topic. She also continues to work on adaptation to climate

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change issues, where she co-authored a policy paper on “Towards an ILO approach to climate change adaptation” and on youth employment where she co-authored “Boosting youth employment through PEPs”. Mito holds an MBA and Honours Certificate in International Business Diplomacy from Georgetown University.

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LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mito-tsukamoto-4084181/

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Catherine Saget



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Chief of Work Income and Equity Unit

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Catherine Saget is the Chief of Work Income and Equity Unit at the International Labour Organization. She joined the ILO as a Young Professional in 1998 and since then has contributed to the setting up of a unit on wages and worked on employment policy at times of economic crisis. As an economist with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) between 2006 and 2007, she participated in the OECD thematic review on youth employment policies. She holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute in Florence (Italy).

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Linkedin

https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-saget-77447536/

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/mito-tsukamoto-4084181/


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Camilla Roman



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Policy Specialist

Description

Camilla Roman is a policy specialist of the International Labour Organization’s Green Jobs programme in Geneva, where she provides technical advice on the Just Transition towards environmental sustainability to national counterparts, while advancing the mainstreaming of this theme across the ILO’s work. She has previously led capacity building efforts on policies for better productivity and working conditions in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) with the ILO Enterprises Department and the SCORE programme. Before joining the ILO’s HQ, Camilla was the Deputy Programme Manager of ILO-IFC Better Factories Cambodia (Better Work), and focused on advancing responsible labour practices in the garment and footwear supply chain. Earlier on, she coordinated Greener Business Asia, a project supporting sustainable enterprise development in Thailand and the Philippines, and the Green Jobs initiative in India. Her sectoral experiences include textiles and apparel, tourism, and agro-business. Camilla holds a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford with a thesis on learning and innovation in clusters and industrial districts.

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LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/camilla-roman-341a232/

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Quote Name Designation & organizationEnvironmental hazards can cause disruption at workplace. There should be concrete measures to adapt to the work and the working condition. For skills, we should anticipate and monitor skill needs. We should identify the gap, and the needed technology.

Catherine Saget Ms, International Labour Organization

Session 15

Start time:

15:00

End time:

15:45

Session title

Youth transitioning to the formal economy

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Session title

Youth transitioning to the formal economy

Session description

With over three quarters of young people around the world working in informal jobs, which entail decent work deficits such as lack of job security and social protection as well as low remuneration, supporting youth’s transition to the formal economy is paramount to advance progress towards the SDGs. Discussions in this thematic session highlighted the need for growth policies in targeted sectors that have large potential for first job creation for youth. These policies should be accompanied by the provision of job-relevant skills trainings, including soft skills, to increase the likelihood of finding a job in the formal economy. Furthermore, as entrepreneurship can have a significant impact on youth’s labour market outcomes, innovations to promote the establishment of first formal enterprises were also identified as potential channels to promote the transition of young people to the formal economy. These may include tax incentives, increased access to capital, technical assistance, and facilitated registration processes for young entrepreneurs. More broadly,

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strengthened regulatory frameworks and a “sticks and carrots” approach to incentivize employers to formalize youth employment were underscored as critical for a proper formalization process. Facilitating young people’s transition to the formal economy ultimately requires an integrated strategy to create job opportunities, enhance their employability in formal jobs, promote young entrepreneurs, and provide incentives for employers to formalize contracts.

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Salle VII




Speaker 1

Speaker name

Frédéric Lapeyre



Speaker designation

Head of the Informal Economy Unit

Description

Frédéric Lapeyre is the head of the Informal Economy Unit at the Employment Policy Department of the International Labour Organization. He is a member of the ILO’s Coordination Team on “Formalization of the Informal Economy” and was a core member of the ILO Team in charge of the preparation of the Recommendation 204 on “The transition from the informal to the formal economy” adopted by the International Labour Conference in June 2015. Until recently, he managed the Programme d’activités pour l’emploi des Jeunes dans la province du Katanga, DR Congo. He holds a Ph.D in Development Studies and previously served as Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, Chairman of the Belgium Post-Graduate School for Development Studies, assistant professor at the Geneva Graduate School for Development Studies and Fulbright Post-doctoral fellow at Brown University (Watson Institute for International Studies). He has written extensively on development and employment related issues.

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Peter Shiras



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Executive Vice President of Business Development

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Peter Shiras is Executive Vice President of Business Development at the International Youth Foundation. Peter joined the IYF in September 2005 as the Vice President for Employability. He was appointed to Executive Vice President in January 2008. As such, he leads IYF’s work in designing new programs for economic opportunity for youth, creating new partnerships with companies, foundations and public sector donors and communications. Peter has extensive international experience in Latin America and Africa, where he directed humanitarian and development programs during his 13 year tenure at Catholic Relief Services. He lived and worked in Central America from 1981-1985, and in Kenya from 1987-1990. He also worked for eleven years in Washington, DC with InterAction and INDEPENDENT SECTOR. Peter has served on the Global Philanthropy Advisory Committee of the Council of Foundations and the board of Casa de Maryland. He is a graduate of Cornell University, with Masters and Bachelors of Science degrees in Agricultural Economics. He has lived in Greece, Turkey and Israel and speaks Spanish.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-shiras-8a7555a/

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Vicky Leung


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Technical Officer

Description

Vicky Leung is a Technical Officer in the Informal Economy Unit within the Employment Policy Department of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva. Since joining the ILO in 2010, her work has focused on poverty reduction, employment promotion and the transition to formality. Apart from the ILO, she also had worked in the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Geneva and the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the DR Congo.

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Quote Name Designation & organizationTransition is not about just registering into formal employment, but creating conditions, trying to understand the obstacles and fix the positions.

Frédéric Lapeyre Mr, International Labour Organization

Session 16

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15:45

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Session title

Marketplace: commitments and actions

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Marketplace: commitments and actions

Session description

The Marketplace provided an interactive platform for participants’ organizations to share their ongoing and upcoming youth employment action and commitments highlighting innovations, achievements and collaboration opportunities

AIESEC: Youth Global Employability

EFE: The future of decent jobs for youth in the MENA

FAO: Commitment to Decent Rural Youth Employment

Generation Spain: Tackling a Global Problem: An Innovative Approach

ITC: Investing in market-relevant skills and entrepreneurship

Mercy Corps: Youth Employment and Fragile Contexts: Examples from the Middle East

Save the Children: Dooit: It’s simple to save and gain the skills you need for success!

Save the Children, Denmark: Partnership between the IT company Coders Trust and Save the Children empowering youth on ICT in Bangladesh

SOS Children's Villages International: YouthCan! Multi-stakeholder partnerships for youth employability

YBI: Thriving in the new digital economy: Innovations to support youth entrepreneurs and the organizations that serve them

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ILO Library


ILO


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Susanna Pak

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Dafne Sartorio


AIESEC

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Global Vice President for Global Talent

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Dafne Sartorio is the Global Vice President for Global Talent at AIESEC. With Global Talent, AIESEC provides 5,000+ professional leadership development experiences for young people every year. Dafne is also responsible for AIESEC’s Global Impact Research on youth employability. Dafne is from Brazil.

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https://twitter.com/dafnesartorio

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Salvatore Nigro


Education for Employment (EFE)

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Global Vice-President

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Salvatore Nigro is Global Vice-President of Education For Employment (EFE), the largest youth employment organisation in the Middle East and North Africa region. In this capacity, he leads EFE’s business development, partnership and programme management in Europe, supporting operations across eight countries in the region. With over fifteen years of experience in workforce development and strategic management, prior to joining EFE Salvatore was Director of Advocacy at the Glocal Forum, where he contributed to one of the largest campaigns for youth and children in conflict areas: We Are the Future. He has advised governments, international organisations and employment agencies in the Mediterranean on the development of youth employment policies and programmes. He holds an MBA from the University of Malta, an MA in International Strategic Studies, an MA in International Political Science and a BA in Political Science from LUISS University.

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https://twitter.com/salvatorenigro

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/salvatorenigro/

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Jihane Lahbabi


EFE Maroc

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Interim Chief Executive Officer

Description

Jihane Lahbabi-Berrada is the Interim Chief Executive Officer of Education For Emplyoment in Morocco (EFE-Maroc), the leading youth employment NGO in Morocco addressing the skills gap by providing job seekers with market-driven skills trainings and job opportunities in high-demand sectors. Prior to joining EFE, Jihane was leading the development of the $1 billion social enterprise Groupe SOS in the United States through programs in employment and entrepreneurship. She also worked with the Clinton Foundation to develop career-readiness and workforce development programs in the United States following the 2008 recession. A dual citizen of France and Morocco, Jihane holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Public Policy and a Master’s degree in Finance and Strategic Management from Sciences Po, Paris, and a Certificate in Social Sector Leadership from University of California, Berkeley.

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https://twitter.com/JihaneLahbabi

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/jihanelahbabiberrada/

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/jihanelahbabiberrada/

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Lamia Chaffai


EFE Tunisia

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CEO

Description

Lamia Chaffai is the CEO of Education For Employment - Tunisia. She previously worked at the Tunisian Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training, Ministry of Communication Technologies, and the Tunisian Internet Agency. She holds degrees from the National Engineering School of Monastir and the Université de Technologie de Compiègne. She is the founding CEO of EFE-Tunisie and has led the organization since May 2012.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/lamia-chaffai-82774520/

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Peter Wobst


FAO

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Senior Officer ESP

Description

Peter Wobst is Senior Economist and Team Leader of the Decent Rural Employment Team within the Social Policies and Rural Institutions division of the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. His current work areas include decent work issues, youth employment, child labour prevention and migration with a strong focus on informal agricultural occupations in rural areas of developing

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countries. Prior to this, Dr. Wobst was the Coordinator of the FAO component of the EC-financed All ACP Agricultural Commodity Programme, which aimed at strengthening stakeholder capacities to develop and implement sustainable commodity strategies. From 2005 to 2008, he was an officer at the European Commission, working at the Sustainability in Agriculture Unit of IPTS (DG JRC) in Seville and subsequently at the Competitiveness and Economic Reforms Unit at DG Enterprise and Industry in Brussels, where he worked on the assessment of Lisbon Strategy type structural reforms and the analysis of the EU energy and climate change package. Prior to 2005, Dr. Wobst worked for about a decade for the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, DC.

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Carlos Bertran


Generation Spain

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CEO

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Carlos Bertran is the CEO of Generation Spain. Previously, Carlos served as the inaugural COO, building a team and organization that now operates in seven cities and has more than 1,000 graduates. Generation Spain is part of Generation, a non-profit that recruits, trains, and places unemployed and underemployed young adults in jobs and has grown to be the largest global demand-driven youth employment organization in just three years of operation. Prior to Generation, Carlos spent 16 years working with Laureate Education, the largest private higher education group in the world, with responsibilities in three countries, building and turning around businesses. He holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE).

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Madhu Fernando


ITC

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Associate Programme Officer

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Madhu Fernando is an Associate Programme Officer at the International Trade Centre (ITC). She supports the work of the Youth and Trade Programme at ITC in the area of project design, implementation, research and partnerships. Before joining ITC in 2014, she worked on youth employment and entrepreneurship projects at the International Labour Organization and the International Telecommunication Union. Madhu holds an M.Sc. in Development Studies from the London School of Economics.

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Nathalie Gunasekera


Mercy Corps

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Senior Advisor for Markets and Employment

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Nathalie Gunasekera is the Senior Advisor for Markets and Employment at Mercy Corps. She supports the organisation’s global youth employment and entrepreneurship portfolio, providing technical support to Mercy Corps field teams in the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Prior to joining Mercy Corps, Nathalie worked on market driven youth employment programs in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. She has also worked on private sector development programs in Sub-Saharan Africa, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi and Nigeria.

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LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathalie-gunasekera-62771580/

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Silvia Paruzzolo


Save the Children

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Deputy Director of the Child Poverty Global Theme

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Silvia Paruzzolo is the Deputy Director of the Child Poverty Global Theme at Save the Children. She provides thought leadership in the area of Adolescent Skills for Successful Transitions across the global organization. She is a social science economist with extensive global experience specializing in research, monitoring and evaluation and capacity building on crosscutting issues related to social and economic empowerment. Silvia previously worked at the International Labour Organization where she led the evidence-based advocacy component of the Youth Entrepreneurship Facility in East Africa focusing on producing evidence about what works and ensuring impact at the policy level. She also worked as an economist at the International Center for Research on Women providing technical support to projects on girls’ and women’s economic empowerment, especially around evidence creation and dissemination. While at the World Bank, she managed a centralized knowledge platform, promoted strategic and rigorous evaluations of youth employment programs, provided operational and technical support to regional teams, promoted cross-fertilization across projects, identified knowledge gaps and disseminated lessons learned. Silvia holds a PhD in Public Administration and a Master of Science in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

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LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-paruzzolo-a176a010/

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Helle Gudmandsen


Save the Children

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Head of Education and Youth Engagement

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Helle Gudmandsen is the Head of Education and Youth Engagement in Save the Children, Denmark with regional youth advisors in Asia, Middle East, West Africa and the African Horn. In partnership with Danida, Helle leads youth development interventions with a focus on youth to youth, adolescent skills for a successful transition into the labour market, and advocacy.

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LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/helle-gudmandsen-6ba502115/

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Patricia Molano

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SOS Children’s Villages International

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Head of International Corporate Partnerships and Philanthropy

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Patricia Molano holds the position of Head of International Corporate Partnerships and Philanthropy at SOS Children’s Villages International since 2014. In this role Patricia manages the operations of SOS Children’s Villages’ international corporate partnerships portfolio as well as the organization‘s global network of corporate fundraisers and relationship managers. Part of her portfolio is focusing on partnerships for youth employability. In the global project YouthCan! the organization has established a practitioners network of reputable companies with the joint aim to increase youth employability in at least 40 countries until 2020. Before joining SOS Children‘s Villages International, Patricia worked for SOS Children‘s Villages in Sweden with corporate relations and fundraising following her experience within corporate responsibility and international business development in the private sector.

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Twitter

https://twitter.com/sos_children

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Anita Tiessen


YBI

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CEO

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Anita Tiessen is the CEO of Youth Business International, the global network of expert organisations focused on helping young people start, grow or sustain their own business. Her career has focused on international development and human rights, with previous CEO or senior executive roles at the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, UNICEF UK, and Amnesty International. Now based

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in the UK, she initially worked as a journalist and government communicator in her native Canada. She holds a Masters Degree in Public Policy and Management from York University.

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Christina Kappaz


YBI

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Director for Latin America and Caribbean

Description

Christina Kappaz leads Youth Business International’s regional Youth Entrepreneurship Programme in Latin America and the Caribbean. She brings 25 years of relevant experience to her role having worked in both the public and private sectors focusing on economic development, building the Latin American entrepreneurial investment ecosystem, and supporting the growth of innovation and entrepreneurship. Christina serves on a number of Boards, and has an extensive track record in planning and organisational development, delivery of facilitation and training services, and undertaking of evaluation and feasibility studies. Her publications include Reducing Poverty, Building Peace (Kumarian Press, 2005) co-authored with Coralie Bryant.

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Session 17

Start time:

16:55

End time:

17:45

Session title

Youth entrepreneurship and self-employment

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Session title

Youth entrepreneurship and self-employment

Session description

Entrepreneurs are important income providers and job creators. They can benefit booming economies by challenging existing enterprises to innovate, keeping up with rapidly changing technologies and global markets, as well as stagnant economies by boosting labour demand, developing innovative goods and services, and stimulating competition. This session explored priority actions and innovative approaches to support self-employment and entrepreneurship among youth. Some of the action areas identified as critical for the promotion of youth entrepreneurship and self-employment were (i) Mentorship around business skills, technical skills, and access to markets, among others; (ii) Access to finance; (iii) Creation of enabling business environments. In particular, mentoring and entrepreneurship training for early stage entrepreneurs, as well as the potential of technology to empower youth to explore market opportunities were highlighted.

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The dialogue underlined the importance of entrepreneurship-friendly policies to encourage young entrepreneurs to start their business, of platforms to connect entrepreneurs, mentors and investors, of building linkages with larger companies and cooperatives, and lastly of helping young entrepreneurs who have learned from a first failure to attract seed capital. Supporting innovations and investments in this area can have large and lasting benefits, as young entrepreneurs are more likely to hire other youth, thus acting as catalysts and creating more economic opportunities for young women and men.

Venue

Salle II


International Trade Centre, ILO, UNIDO, UNCDF, UNCTAD


Speaker 1

Speaker name

Nathalie Gunasekera


Mercy Corps

Speaker designation

Senior Advisor, Markets & Employment

Description

Nathalie Gunasekera is the Senior Advisor for Markets and Employment at Mercy Corps. She supports the organisation’s global youth employment and entrepreneurship portfolio, providing technical support to Mercy Corps field teams in the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Prior to joining Mercy Corps, Nathalie worked on market driven youth employment programs in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. She has also worked on private sector development programs in Sub-Saharan Africa, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi and Nigeria.

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LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathalie-gunasekera-62771580/

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Speaker 2

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Karen Moore



Speaker designation

Program Manager, Youth Livelihoods

Description

Karen Moore manages a portfolio of Youth Livelihoods projects at the Mastercard Foundation, focussing on fostering access to skills development, jobs and business opportunities, and financial inclusion. She has over 15 years of experience as an advisor and researcher on a range of development policy issues, including childhood, youth and intergenerational poverty and well-being, education, financial inclusion, social protection, gender, and disability. Karen previously worked with Plan UK as Economic Security Adviser; with the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, based at UNESCO; and with the DFID-funded Chronic Poverty Research Centre, based at the Universities of Birmingham and Manchester in the UK. She holds BA and MSc degrees in development studies from the University of Toronto and the University of Bath, UK.

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Marlen de la Chaux



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Technical Officer SME Development

Description

Marlen de la Chaux’s work at the International Labour Organization focuses on enterprise and value chain development. She is interested in how young people create businesses in adverse environments and has worked with entrepreneurs in different contexts, from Nairobi’s technology start-up community to refugee camps in Kenya. She also worked with young women across Burkina Faso. Prior to joining the ILO, Marlen worked for the German Federal Ministry of the Interior and for the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She holds a PhD and MPhil from the University of Cambridge, UK.

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Rhizlan El Alaoui


Quicktech Morocco

Speaker designation

Director

Description

Rhizlan El Alaoui is the Director of Quicktech Morocco and Founder of the Start Up ‘‘EasyshairPro Inc’’. Rhizlan has a BA in Computer Engineering from Supinfo Paris and an MBA from Cardiff Metropolitan University. After holding various jobs in computer science, digital marketing and business development, Rhizlan went back to Morocco in 2014 to launch Quicktech, a web and mobile company that offers technology solutions to local enterprises. In 2017, Rhizlan founded Easyshairpro Inc in Delaware, USA, a smart business networking solution powered by Artificial Intelligence. In 2016, she won the Young Entrepreneur of the Year prize awarded by Hub Africa and the Start Up coup de cœur at COP 22. Rhizlan is also involved and engaged in the development of entrepreneurship and the technology sector in Morocco. She is a member of Reseau Entreprendre Maroc and board member of the Association Marocaine des Sociétés Technologiques (ASTEC).

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Speaker 5

Speaker name

David Cordobés



Speaker designation

Youth and Trade programme manager

Description

David Cordobés joined the International Trade Centre (ITC) in 2006 to lead trade-related technical assistance initiatives. Prior to this, he worked as a Business Unit Manager for a leading consulting company in high technology services in aeronautics, spatial and banking sectors in Mexico and France. He is an expert in inclusive and business development with experience supporting over 40 developing countries across four continents on: youth economic empowerment, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises’ competitiveness, social entrepreneurship and market intelligence. David currently leads ITC’s Youth and Trade Programme and supports technical cooperation projects in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa region. David holds a Master degree in business administration from the Universidad La Salle of Mexico and a Master degree in international relations and geopolitics from Sciences Po Toulouse. He speaks Spanish, French and English.

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Quote Name Designation & organizationThree action pillars for youth entrepreneurship and self-employment are: Enabling Policy and regulatory environment; Access to markets, networks, knowledge and skills; Access to finance.

David Cordobés Mr, International Trade Centre

Session 18

Start time:

16:55

End time:

17:45

Title + Description

Session title

Youth employment for peace and resilience: Innovative approaches for impact and evidence in fragile situations

Session description

Recognizing that employment can contribute to peace by creating constructive contact between groups, by increasing economic opportunities, and by addressing grievances of unfair treatment and inequality, this thematic session focused on innovative thinking around empowering young people impacted by complex emergencies and conflicts. Enhancing the evidence base, as well as finding effective ways to disseminate knowledge, so that lessons learnt can be translated into effective implementation remains a key priority. Among the critical areas that need to be addressed, the identification of indicators to measure success impactin fragile situations, as well the limited availability to the public of progress reports that capture rich information on programmes, were mentioned.

As to what works for promoting promoting youth employment for peace and resilience, entrepreneurship has an important role to play in conflict settings since generally there are not many jobs available – especially in rural areas, which are often the worst affected. Furthermore, young entrepreneurs tend to evolve in all-around leaders in their communities, promoting peace. The development of life skills, in particular re-socialization traits, was also identified as a key aspect to empower youth, especially in fragile situations. As a further measure to address the massive number of youth affected by protracted conflicts and emergencies, the possibility of having young people work together in market places or cooperatives was also highlighted.

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Salle XI


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Speaker 1

Speaker name

Christina Kappaz


Youth Business International

Speaker designation

Director for Latin America and Caribbean

Description

Christina Kappaz leads Youth Business International’s regional Youth Entrepreneurship Programme in Latin America and the Caribbean. She brings 25 years of relevant experience to her role having worked in both the public and private sectors focusing on economic development, building the Latin American entrepreneurial investment ecosystem, and supporting the growth of innovation and entrepreneurship. Christina serves on a number of Boards, and has an extensive track record in planning and organisational development, delivery of facilitation and training services, and undertaking of evaluation and feasibility studies. Her publications include Reducing Poverty, Building Peace (Kumarian Press, 2005) co-authored with Coralie Bryant.

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Speaker name

Nour Shammout


Abdul Latif Jameel, Poverty Action Lab

Speaker designation

Policy Manager

Description

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Nour Shammout is a policy manager at The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT. She leads the Labor Markets Sector globally and helps manage J-PAL’s Middle East and North Africa Research and Policy Initiative. In this role, she helps foundations, NGOs, and governments integrate rigorous evidence into their program and policy processes and helps forge new research partnerships to answer questions critical to poverty alleviation. Prior to joining J-PAL, Nour worked in a variety of positions related to local economic development, employment, financial inclusion, and education in the Middle East. She worked at the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation in Jordan and supported research teams at the World Bank’s Development Research Group studying the impact of labor market interventions. Nour holds an undergraduate degree in Manufacturing Engineering, and Masters degrees in Urban Planning and Public Policy.

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Kawtar Zerouali


United Nations Development Programme

Speaker designation

Regional Project Manager

Description

Kawtar Zerouali is currently managing the United Nations Development Programme’s Regional Programme on gender equality and women’s empowerment in the Arab region, from Amman, Jordan. Kawtar was the Regional Programme Manager of the Arab Youth Volunteering for a Better Future programme led by United Nations Volunteers (UNV). Before that, Kawtar served as a Specialist on National Dialogue/Civil Society Strengthening with UNDP Tunisia, and served as a UNV Portfolio Manager for the Arab States. Kawtar has a solid mix of development experience in several countries including Egypt, Bangladesh, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Yemen, and the USA with the UN system, World Bank and Mosaic Foundation focusing on good governance, youth inclusiveness, community centred projects, gender equality and women’s empowerment. Kawtar is an economist by education with a special focus on Organizational Management and has a passion for women issues and youth empowerment.

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Moderator

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Speaker 4

Speaker name

Donato Kiniger-Passigli



Speaker designation

Coordinator of the Fragile States and Disaster Response Group

Description

Donato Kiniger-Passigli is the Coordinator of the Fragile States and Disaster Response Group in the Employment Policy Department of the International Labour Organization. He is a specialist in crisis resolution, development cooperation, labour affairs and strategic communication. Having served in the United Nations system continuously since 1987, Donato has previously coordinated the public affairs of UNOCHA, OPCW and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Previously, Donato joined peace-keeping missions in former Yugoslavia (UNPROFOR) and Western-Sahara (MINURSO), from where he covered political affairs.

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Quote Name Designation & organizationWhen we work, we talk to people and we want to give them hope and a better sense of dignity. It’s also to reconcile with what people feels, a

Donato Kiniger-Passigli Mr, International Labour Organization

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change of mind-set that employment opportunities can bring. Young people are the own actors of their future.

Session 19

Start time:

17:45

End time:

18:45

Session title

Innovative action takeaways: reflections from young leaders

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Session title

Innovative action takeaways: reflections from young leaders

Session description

The last panel of the first day reflected on the afternoon’s thematic discussions around the Global Initiative’s eight priority areas, where a variety of experiences and inspiring actions on decent jobs for youth were shared. The importance of social dialogue and cooperation between key youth employment stakeholders was stressed across all thematic sessions, with emphasis on the role of engagement of youth. Future initiatives to promote youth employment may consider the key takeaways of the various sessions:

1. The need to equip a larger number of young people with digital skills to fill emerging jobs in the rapidly changing world of work, paying special attention to designing initiatives that are sustainable in the long-term and can be scaled up.

2. The potential of quality apprenticeships to address growing concerns over skills mismatches, especially if they are based on dialogue between social partners and responsive to evolving needs of employers and young people.

3. The importance of creating more opportunities for youth in rural areas, especially young women, by facilitating young people’s access to production resources, promoting economic diversification, increasing technology adoption, and enhancing the engagement of private sector partners.

4. The focus on skills development to prepare youth for green jobs, which represent a growing employment opportunity and at the same time help address the challenges brought by climate change.

5. The role of youth entrepreneurship and self-employment to empower youth and enable them to create jobs for themselves and for their peers, by supporting youth from the early stages of

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setting a business through better access to finance and mentoring, to the creation of an enabling business environment.

6. The promotion of targeted policies in booming sectors with job-creation potential to foster youth’s transition to the formal economy by, for example, incentivizing both formal wage employment experiences for youth, and the establishment of formal enterprises by young entrepreneurs.

7. The value of entrepreneurship as a valuable pathway to creating employment in fragile settings, which in these contexts should be particularly complemented by soft skills training, access to finance, and mentoring.

8. The need to move beyond recognizing risks in hazardous occupations towards empowering youth to identify hazardous conditions themselves and minimize workplace incidents.

The multi-dimensional nature of the youth employment challenge calls for holistic and innovative approaches to advance decent work for youth. Strengthening partnerships and the mobilization of governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, youth groups, private sector partners, international agencies and other key stakeholders, remain critical towards sustainability of future endeavours.

Venue

Salle II




Speaker 1

Speaker name

Delila Kidanu


ThinkYoung

Speaker designation

External Relations Manager

Description

Delila Kidanu is the External Relations Manager at ThinkYoung. ThinkYoung is the first think tank that focuses on young people. It is a not-for-profit organisation, with the aim of making the world a better place for young people, by involving them in decision making processes and by providing decision makers with high quality research on key issues affecting young people. ThinkYoung conducts studies and surveys, makes documentary movies, writes policy proposals and develops non-formal education programmes: up to date, ThinkYoung projects have reached over 800,000

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young people. We believe that empowering youth with skills that the education system does not provide them, empowers them to create their own futures in this time of high unemployment.

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Zuzana Vaněčková


European Youth Forum

Speaker designation

Board Member

Description

Zuzana Vaněčková is a Board Member of the European Youth Forum, the platform of youth organisations in Europe representing more than 100 youth organisations and the voice of tens of millions of young people from all over Europe. Zuzana is responsible for the economic and social inclusion agenda, advocating for social rights of young people. She is a youth activist fighting against unpaid internships, low quality jobs and social injustice. Apart from being a Board Member, Zuzana is finishing her master´s studies in Adult Education and Personal Management at Charles University in Prague.

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Jonas Bausch



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Speaker designation

Technical Officer

Description

Jonas Bausch works in the Youth Employment Programme of the International Labour Organization. He conducts research on impact assessments of youth employment programmes and analyses of labour market policies. He also supports ILO constituents and other youth-serving organizations in improving their result measurement systems and serves as lecturer and facilitator in related trainings and workshops. Jonas holds a research master in economics from the Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam.

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Speaker 3

Speaker name

Nour Shammout


Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

Speaker designation

Policy Manager

Description

Nour Shammout is a policy manager at The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT. She leads the Labor Markets Sector globally and helps manage J-PAL’s Middle East and North Africa Research and Policy Initiative. In this role, she helps foundations, NGOs, and governments integrate rigorous evidence into their program and policy processes and helps forge new research partnerships to answer questions critical to poverty alleviation. Prior to joining J-PAL, Nour worked in a variety of positions related to local economic development, employment, financial inclusion, and education in the Middle East. She worked at the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation in Jordan and supported research teams at the World Bank’s Development Research Group studying the impact of labor market interventions. Nour holds an undergraduate degree in Manufacturing Engineering, and Master’s degrees in Urban Planning and Public Policy.

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Speaker 4

Speaker name

Madhu Fernando



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Description

Madhu Fernando is an Associate Programme Officer at the International Trade Centre (ITC). She supports the work of the Youth and Trade Programme at ITC in the area of project design, implementation, research and partnerships. Before joining ITC in 2014, she worked on youth employment and entrepreneurship projects at the International Labour Organization and the International Telecommunication Union. Madhu holds a M.Sc. in Development Studies from the London School of Economics.

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Speaker 5

Speaker name

Dafne Sartorio


AIESEC

Speaker designation

Global Vice President - Global Talent

Description

Dafne Sartorio is the Global Vice President for Global Talent at AIESEC. With Global Talent, AIESEC provides 5,000+ professional leadership development experiences for young people every year.

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Dafne is also responsible for AIESEC’s Global Impact Research on youth employability. Dafne is from Brazil.

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Twitter

https://twitter.com/dafnesartorio

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Viridiana Murillo Robledo


United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth

Speaker designation

Regional Focal Point on Migration for Latin America and the Caribbean

Description

Viridiana Murillo Robledo serves as the regional focal point on migration for Latin America and the Caribbean at the United Nations Major Group on Children and Youth. She is an International Relations B.A. student from the University of Guadalajara and current Internal Management Coordinator of MY World Mexico (MYWM), an initiative supported by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Action Campaign aimed to engage stakeholders in the implementation of the SDGs in Mexico. Established in 2016, the initiative seeks to encourage public ownership of the SDGs in the country through creative and innovative communications, campaigning and policy advocacy, and Viridiana coordinates the team’s participation in these areas of work.

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Speaker 7

Speaker name

Zainab Abudeeb


General Federation of Bahrain Trade Unions

Speaker designation

Assistant General Secretary

Description

Zainab Abudeeb is the Assistant General Secretary for working youth at the General Federation of Bahrain Trade Unions. She also serves as vice-chair of International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) for Asia Pacific Youth Committee and is a member of the ITUC Global Youth Committee. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management and has been in the trade union movement for eight years.

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Speaker 8

Speaker name

Susana Puerto



Speaker designation

Coordinator Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth

Description

Susana Puerto leads the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth, an inclusive multi-stakeholder partnership led by the International Labour Organization to scale up action and impact on youth employment within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. With over ten years of experience on the promotion of youth employment, Susana has managed and contributed to multiple efforts boosting employability and job creation with a focus on Africa. Between 2011 and 2014, Susana managed the Youth Employment Network, a partnership of United Nations, ILO, and World Bank and has been over the years a leading advocate for more and better data and evidence about what works to improve labour market outcomes of youth. Prior to joining the ILO, Susana worked for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and a number of think-tanks in

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Colombia. Susana serves on a number of boards and executive committees and has an extensive track record of practical expertise in impact evaluations and monitoring of labour market interventions. Susana is a labour economist from Georgetown University with a strong research footprint.

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Innovative action takeaways reflections from young leaders

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Quote Name Designation & organizationIt isn’t merely technical skills but soft skills that are translated to the digital age that are necessary in the current context

Delila Kidanu Ms, ThinkYoung

The private sector can contribute in rural areas by building long lasting relations with stakeholders, communities and small businesses that they source inputs from in their global value chains.

Jonas Bausch Mr, International Labour Organization

Day 2Title

Innovative Financing Day - Thursday, 3 May 2018

Session 1

Start time:

08:00

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End time:

09:00

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Session title

One-on-One meetings

Session description

The one-on-one meetings session is a dedicated time for pre-arranged one-on-one meetings with other participants to explore collaboration opportunities on decent jobs for youth.

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ILO Library




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Session 2

Start time:

09:00

End time:

09:45

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Rethinking financing for youth employment in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Session description

The SDGs and the related youth employment targets can only be achieved through coherent and coordinated strategies that are able to attract funding from diverse sources, particularly domestic, in both the public and private sectors. This session reviewed some of the key components to advance the sustainable financing of interventions on decent jobs for youth. Based on lessons from previous implementation of youth employment programs, the adoption of a demand-driven approach and buy-in of the private sector from the onset, coupled with strong collaboration with government agencies, were identified as two critical factors to ensure that financing can be sustained. The imperative of leaving no-one behind and investing to address the needs of the most vulnerable, including young women, should also be at the centre of financing plans of youth employment programmes and policies.

In terms of scaling up action that leads to high impact on labour market outcomes of youth, the need for long-term commitments and engagement of broader partnerships, along the support of capacity building efforts, were noted. In particular, the role of private sector incentives towards investment in sustainable development are critical as it is likely to have the largest transformative effect over time. Furthermore, more research and knowledge on ‘what works’ in youth employment programmes remains critical to mobilize resources with a view to achieving scale and impact.

Venue

Salle II




Speaker 1

Speaker name

Maria Luisa Silva


UNDP

Speaker designation

Director

Description

Maria Luisa Silva is the Director of the United Nations Development Programme Office in Geneva. She has over 25 years’ experience in UNDP and the UN system, most recently as UN Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative in Peru (2014-2015). From 2009 to 2014 she served in

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UNEP as Executive Secretary for the Convention for Protection of the Marine Environment in the Mediterranean and its Commission on Sustainable Development. From 2006 to 2009 she was the UN Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. From 1999 to 2006 she was seconded to OHCHR in Geneva, where she was Team Leader with the Research and Right to Development Branch. Before this she was UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Peru from 1996 to 1998, and held other UNDP assignments in New York, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Belize. Prior to joining the United Nations, she was consultant on European Affairs with Deloitte at their Brussels office, and taught international law at the University of Seville, Spain. Maria Luisa Silva holds a Master’s Degree in International and Public Law from the University of Seville, and a post graduate certificate on European Integration from the College of Europe, in Bruges, Belgium.

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Speaker name

Meredith Lee



Speaker designation

Associate Director, Country Program Management

Description

Meredith Lee is the Associate Director, Country Program Management at the Mastercard Foundation. She is responsible for the operational roll out of the Foundation’s Young Africa Works strategy which focuses on economic opportunities for young people in Africa. Meredith also manages a portfolio of youth programming in a variety of sectors including technology, tourism and hospitality, and agri-food systems. Her work focuses on the pressing issues of young people as they transition into work opportunities in formal and informal sectors. Meredith has almost 20 years of experience working with youth both in Canada and internationally in experiential education, program design, and implementation. Prior to joining the Mastercard Foundation, Meredith was the Director of Programs for Street Kids International. She holds an Honours Bachelor Degree in International Development Studies from the University of Toronto, Canada and a Master’s in Public Administration from Queen’s University, Canada.

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Speaker

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Twitter

https://twitter.com/MastercardFdn

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Speaker 3

Speaker name

Rie Vejs-Kjeldgaard



Speaker designation

Director of the Department of Partnerships and Field Support

Description

Rie Vejs Kjeldgaard is the Director of the Department of Partnerships and Field Support. Her professional experience includes managerial responsibilities in the pharmaceutical sector as Head of Product and Market Development; Enterprise Development Specialist in the ILO Regional Office for Asia and Pacific in Bangkok, and Senior Specialist in Enterprise Development, ILO Headquarters in Geneva. She has also held various ILO management positions including Global Manager of a Technical Corporation Programme on “Job Quality in Micro and Small Enterprises”; Deputy Sub-Regional Director for South East Asia, New Delhi; as ILO Country Director for Viet Nam; and as Manager of the ILO Global Programme on “Decent Work Country Level Policy Analysis”. Prior to her current assignment she served as the Deputy Regional Director of the ILO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia responsible for providing policy and technical assistance to 51 member states of the ILO. She is a Danish national and has an educational background in Economics and Business Administration with a specialization in marketing and international business development.Type of speaker

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Quote Name Designation & organizationThe key is to move away from a supply-driven approach and get the buy-in of the private sector at the very beginning.

Meredith Lee Ms, Mastercard Foundation

Session 3

Start time:

09:45

End time:

10:30

Session title

Innovations and new approaches in the financial sector contributing to youth employment

Title + Description

Session description

Given the need to supplement traditional funding channels and engage additional stakeholders, this session showcased experiences in promoting innovations in the financial sector to achieve impact and scale in the youth employment field. New approaches in the financing of Vocational Education and Training (VET) to increase youth employability include: Voucher Systems to allow disadvantaged youth to access courses offered by accredited VET institutions; Results-based Financing to incentivize stronger connections between employers and VET institutions; and Financing Facilities, notably grants, to VET providers through competitive processes that reward institutions that work hand-in-hand with the private sector in the development and improvement of educational proposals. These opportunities are designed specifically to support the VET sector while promoting a greater engagement of the private sector.

The financial sector can also play a key role in supporting youth self-employment and entrepreneurship by, for instance, providing young entrepreneurs with training and a loan to develop their business idea, and once the project is bankable and the loan is being repaid, by

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offering a grant to kick-off the business. Investors can likewise tackle the lack of credit history - a traditional barrier that young people encounter when starting their own business - incentivizing the behavioural change of microfinance institutions by developing financial tools such as first loss mechanisms. While a business’ early stages are generally the most challenging for young entrepreneurs, flexibility to adapt financial tools according to the life-cycle of the business is crucial to foster long-term sustainable employment outcomes for youth.

In terms of scaling up action that leads to high impact on labour market outcomes of youth, the need for long-term commitments and engagement of broader partnerships, along the support of capacity building efforts, were noted. In particular, the role of private sector incentives towards investment in sustainable development are critical as it is likely to have the largest transformative effect over time. Furthermore, more research and knowledge on ‘what works’ in youth employment programmes remains critical to mobilize resources with a view to achieving scale and impact.

Venue

Salle II




Speaker 1

Speaker name

Hille Henebry


KfW

Speaker designation

Senior Project Manager

Description

Hille Henebry is a senior project manager at the Financial Sector and Economic Development Team in the Western Balkans of KfW, in Frankfurt. Her work focuses on kick starting KfW’s work on bilateral and regional Vocational and Education Training projects in the Western Balkans. Hille has over 12 years of work experience in bilateral and multilateral development cooperation. Her sector experience includes private and financial sector development, education (higher and vocational education and training), and agricultural and rural Development. She worked at the World Bank Africa Region in Washington DC and in GIZ also with a focus on Africa.

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Speaker name

Sarita Bartlett


OBVIAM

Speaker designation

Head of Environmental, Social and Governance

Description

Sarita Bartlett is the head of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) at Obviam. She became interested in responsible investing more than twenty years ago when she sought to combine her background in economics and finance with her passion for the environment, social and human rights issues. Her work includes using systematic approaches to identifying, mitigating and managing ESG risks and associated reputational risks, as well as identifying and promoting ESG-related opportunities. Prior to joining Obviam, she held a similar position at the state-owned Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries (Norfund). She previously developed and managed Storebrand Investments’ pioneering social responsible investments, headed KPMG’s Sustainable Advisory Services in Norway and has held board and advisory positions in corporates, financial institutions, and non-profit organisations.

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Craig Churchill



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Head of the Social Finance Programme

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Craig Churchill is the head of the International Labour Organization’s Social Finance Programme. He has more than two decades of microfinance experience in both developed and developing countries. In his current position, he focuses on the potential of financial services and policies to achieve social objectives. Craig has authored and edited over 40 articles, papers, monographs and training manuals on various microfinance topics including microinsurance, customer loyalty, organizational development, governance, lending methodologies, regulation and supervision, and financial services for the poorest of the poor. Craig has a BA from Williams College and an MA from Clark University, both in Massachusetts.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-x6VD_A7jY&list=PL8itJ-8Cfpcz0qSfjhFk7xXilWPXO1vU7&index=25

Innovations and new approaches in the financial sector contributing to youth employment

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Quote Name Designation & organizationInvesting in education represents a win-win situation for private companies and young people alike

Sarita Bartlett Ms, Obviam

Session 4

Start time:

10:30

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12:00

Session title

Football for Decent Jobs for Youth

Session description

The meeting brings together a broad range of organizations from the football industry actively contributing to the promotion of youth employment to share their experiences, provide insight on the youth employment challenge and solutions, and explore areas for collaboration in the context of the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth.

Venue

Salle II




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Session 5

Start time:

11:00

End time:

12:00

Session title

Results-based financing: promoting and measuring decent jobs for youth

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Session description

Results-based financing (RBF), where financial resources are provided against the achievement of outcomes, have been increasingly used to improve the effectiveness of social programs. In this session, Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) and Outcome Funds were discussed as examples of RBF to finance youth employment initiatives. Through a SIB, non-government entities such as private investors or foundations front the funds for a provider to implement the programme, which is then evaluated. If the programme attains pre-defined employment outcomes, the government or donor agency pays the investor back plus a profit. Otherwise, the funder takes a loss. It was noted that while SIBs have the potential to improve employment outcomes, they are complex financial instruments as they involve multiple actors from different sectors, and further research is needed to evaluate their efficacy. Similarly, Outcome Funds disburse funding once a pre-specified outcome is achieved; this is a more market-based approach but can be more scalable than SIBs. The measurability of outcomes, along the development of solid business cases for investors seeking financial and social returns, were identified as critical success factors for this type of financial mechanisms.

More broadly, it was highlighted that, by focusing on outcomes rather than activities, RBF provides greater flexibility to service providers to adapt their model during the course of the intervention, allowing interventions to be more reactive to changing labour market needs. Furthermore, through mechanisms such as differential pricing, RBF can encourage service providers to pursue outcomes to reach the most vulnerable youth. As the utilization of RBFs continues to expand, a sound understanding of the barriers to the outcomes to be achieved and of the context of the intervention are paramount to decide how to design these innovative instruments.

Venue

Salle II




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Speaker 1

Speaker name

Debra Hevenstone


Bern University of Applied Sciences

Speaker designation

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Description

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Debra Hevenstone has worked since 2017 as a lecturer at the Bern University of Applied Sciences in the Department of Social Work. Her current work focuses on the design of welfare state programs and social services with her must recent article (under review) looking at how Social Impact Bond (SIB) financing might play a role in open governance. She is currently developing an international comparative project looking at how SIB financing impacts program design and outcomes. Prior to her current position she worked as a Senior Researcher at the Universities of Bern and Zurich where she studied social and labor market policy, with a focus on quantitative methods. She has also worked at the International Labor Organization, Policy Studies Institute in London, and the Brookings Institution in Washington DC and has a PhD, MA, and BA from the University of Michigan, University of Chicago, and Bard College, respectively.

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Presentation:

Presentation by Debra Hevenstone: Hevenstone_ILO_SIBs


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Speaker 2

Speaker name

Milena Castellnou


Instiglio

Speaker designation

Manager

Description

Milena Castellnou is a Manager at Instiglio and coordinates and oversees the technical work in Results-Based Financing Projects. Her work has focused mainly on designing Results- Based Financing instruments, such as Impact Bonds, Performance Based Grants and Performance Based Contracts. She worked on the design of the Colombian Social Impact Bond (SIB), which was the first Social Impact Bond to be launched in a developing country in March 2017. This SIB aimed to boost employment for vulnerable population in three cities of Colombia. She has also worked with the Ministry of Education of Peru on the re-designing of a Performance Based Grant between the central and local Governments to enhance nationwide education outcomes in primary and secondary schools, and with the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the Moroccan Government on the

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possibility to use RBF to catalyze employment outcomes with a focus on scale and replicability. Lastly, she has also provided guidance to World Vision Canada on the opportunity to invest in the Kangaroo Mother Care DIB in Cameroon and led the due diligence on the deal. Milena’s professional background includes academic, legal and private sector work, as she formally worked for the Human Rights Law Centre of the University of Nottingham, Asylum Access Ecuador and BDRC Continental. Milena holds an LLM in Public International Law from University of Nottingham and a Master’s degree in Latin American Studies from Sciences Po, Grenoble.

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Speaker 3

Speaker name

Leo Van Loon


BuzinezzClub

Speaker designation

CEO

Description

Mr Leo van Loon, CEO Buzinezzclub Netherlands. He has a Master’s degree in Business Economics at Erasmus University and has been a social entrepreneur since 2001. Leo turned the launch of the first Social Impact Bond at the European continent into a world premiere by being the first social entrepreneur to invest alongside the impact investors. He will share his experience in launching three Social Impact Bonds (SIB’s) to battle youth unemployment with the Buzinezzclub and is currently building a track record to launch SIB’s to battle unemployment among refugees. In 2018 the Buzinezzclub is assisting a 1.000 youngsters to leave unemployment by finding the job or education that suits them or even by starting up their own company. The Workclub is assisting 500 refugees to enter the Dutch workforce and grow from start job to their heart job. Leo’s passion is to have everybody make a living out of their passion and deliver professional career coaching to the people in society who need it most.

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Speaker 4

Speaker name

Vic Van Vuuren



Speaker designation

Director of the Enterprise Department

Description

Vic Van Vuuren is the Director of the Enterprise Department at the International Labour Organization, Geneva. After completing a law degree Vic started his working career at the South African Department of Justice as a public prosecutor and magistrate. Thereafter he moved into the private sector as a corporate legal advisor and progressed later to executive positions in human resources for large corporates. Vic was later appointed as the Chief Operations Officer of the national unified business federation organisation - Business Unity South Africa, which he helped establish. In February 2009 Vic was appointed as the Director: International Labour Organization, Southern Africa. In January 2016 Vic was appointed as the Director Enterprises Department at the International Labour organisation Office, Geneva. Vic served on the South African Council for Higher Education and the International Labour Organisation Governing Body, the Council of the Pan African Employers’ Confederation, the South African Power Utility Research Advisory Board, Director of the La Rosa Spanish dance Company and vice Chairman of the Santos Professional Football Club.

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Moderator

URLs

LinkedIn


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov5KGv58BYc&list=PL8itJ-8Cfpcz0qSfjhFk7xXilWPXO1vU7&index=20

Results based financing promoting and measuring decent jobs for youth

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Presentation: LEO VAN LOON - ILO



Quote Name Designation & organizationBy moving from a focus on activities to a focus on outcomes, more evaluation of the impacts of work force development to achieve more decent jobs for youth can take place.

Milena Castellnou Ms, Instiglio

Result-based financing should not be the answer to everything. The decisions should be more context driven and should consider the current barriers and outcome.

Milena Castellnou Ms, Instiglio

Session 7

Start time:

13:00

End time:

14:00

Session title

Impact investing and crowdfunding: challenges and opportunities

Session description

In the last decade, impact investing and crowdfunding have gained momentum as innovative finance mechanisms. This session provided an overview of these new channels to mobilize private capitals. Representing USD 114 billion in assets, the potential of impact investing - that is, investments that aim at generating a positive social and/or environmental impact alongside economic returns - was stressed, highlighting the importance of providing technical assistance to adapt financial systems to new beneficiaries, such as youth. At the same time, crowdfunding - that is, leveraging tech platforms to raise funds, typically with a large number of people providing small amounts of funding - has registered an exponential growth over the last seven years. This financing tool could be especially

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relevant for young entrepreneurs who typically do not have a credit history but may have innovative ideas attractive to the crowd.

While it was noted that accelerators and incubators, venture funds, and blended finance platforms are trying to bridge the gap in job training and placement and promoting a cultural shift towards more sustainable investments towards achieving youth employment outcomes, the non-financial viability of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) which reduces their investment attractiveness, was remarked as one of the biggest challenges to address. Thus, especially for youth-led SMEs, investors should provide longer timeframes for investment, technical assistance, and accept less significant exit options. Furthermore, as innovative forms of financing are adopted, impact measures remain crucial to support youth and unlock capital.

Venue

Salle II




Speaker 1

Speaker name

Maria Teresa Zappia


BlueOrchard

Speaker designation

Chief Investment Officer

Description

Maria Teresa Zappia is the Chief Investment Officer at BlueOrchard. Maria Teresa has worked in the emerging markets finance sector for over 20 years. She has worked for several development banks and financial institutions (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Asian Development Bank, Overseas Development Institute, and OECD Development Centre) based both in the field (Africa, South East Asia, and Central Asia) and in head-office. Before joining BlueOrchard, Maria Teresa worked as Senior Banker in the Group for Small Business which was EBRD’s microfinance and SME finance team and managed a portfolio of microfinance/SME credit lines with local commercial banks and MFIs across the Balkans, Central Europe and Central Asia. Maria Teresa joined BlueOrchard in 2008 to manage the investment team. As of 2012 Maria Teresa was appointed Chief Investment Officer and is now responsible for the top-down part of the investment process at BlueOrchard together with the Portfolio Management Team that she heads. She holds a Master of Philosophy in Development Studies from the University of Sussex (Distinction), and a Degree in Economics (BA and MA equivalent, 1st Class Honors) from the University of Florence (Italy).

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URLs


Speaker 2

Speaker name

Alice Gugelev


Global Development Incubator

Speaker designation

Director

Description

Alice Gugelev is a Director at GDI where she works with large corporations, commercial investors and INGOs to integrate social impact, innovation and entrepreneurship efforts into their portfolios, and helps philanthropists and social enterprises more effectively create systems-level change. Prior to joining GDI, Alice worked at Bridgespan, Bain & Co, the World Bank and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi. She is the co-founder and executive director of The Muskoka Foundation, as well as the co-founder and chief strategy officer of AppMkr. Alice earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and has a double major BA in International Economics and East Asian Studies from Columbia University and Stanford Japan Center.

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Speaker 3

Speaker name

Patrick Elmer


iGravity

Speaker designation

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Founder and Director

Description

Patrick Elmer, Founder and Director, iGravity. Patrick works at the intersection of finance and global development, focusing on innovative solutions and partnerships that create opportunities for underprivileged people and protect our planet. He founded iGravity in March 2017 to support disruptive ideas, entrepreneurs, visionaries, and institutions in their impact investment [ad]ventures. Previously he worked as Head of Business Development at BlueOrchard, leading the sales strategy across multiple markets and developing new partnerships and structures. He was also Head of Responsible Investments and Philanthropy at Credit Suisse, advising clients on investment solutions and leading the bank’s efforts in creating novel partnerships and products in areas like microfinance, education, agriculture and conservation finance. Before that, Patrick worked for many years in Mozambique, Tanzania and Madagascar, first managing the private sector development portfolio of SECO (Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs) and later establishing and managing microfinance banks on behalf of public and private investors. Earlier professional experiences focused on consulting and financing of start-up companies. Patrick holds a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the University of St. Gallen and a Master’s degree on Developing Countries from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.

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Speaker 4

Speaker name

Patricia Richter



Speaker designation

Senior Technical Officer

Description

Patricia Richter is a Senior Technical Officer at the International Labour Organization’s Social Finance Programme. A development finance professional with over fifteen years of experience, Patricia’s expertise covers areas of social performance and impact measurement, rural finance and risk management with a regional focus on Africa and Asia. Patricia is managing the ILO Social Finance Unit’s collaboration with the Africa Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund looking at how positive social and environmental impact of agricultural investments can be improved. She is leading the unit’s work on social and environmental management systems as well as on innovative finance. Before joining the ILO in 2007, Patricia worked as researcher and lecturer at the Institute for

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Development Research and Policy in Germany, served on the Board of the Melton Foundation, and worked as advisor on economic development at a regional parliament in Germany. Patricia holds a PhD in Economics and an M.A. in Intercultural Management and Business Administration. She serves on the Technical Review Committee of the Social Performance Task Force.

Type of speaker

Moderator

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwDOvsvuiUs&list=PL8itJ-8Cfpcz0qSfjhFk7xXilWPXO1vU7&index=26

Impact investing and crowdfunding challenges and opportunities

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Quote Name Designation & organizationImpact investing has a great potential, representing USD 114 billion in assets, compared to USD 150 billion of official development assistance (ODA) and approximately USD 34 billion raised with crowdfunding.

Patrick Elmer Mr, iGravity

Financial intermediaries need to tailor the different models and financial tools to support youth and unlock substantial capital, adopting a collaborative approach towards frontier finance.

Alice Gugelev Ms, Global Development Incubator

Session 8

Start time:

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14:00

End time:

15:30

Session title

World Café: Leveraging innovative financing to scale up action on youth

Session description

The World Café session is a session based on group discussions on leveraging innovative financing to scale up action on youth employment. Participants have a chance to be exposed to all 3 topics. They discuss question 1 for one topic, then move to question 2 for another topic, and then question 3 for the last topic. Bell will be rang or music will be played to indicate end of discussion. Hosts encourage participants to move to another table. The three topics and three questions are:

3 TOPICSa. Results based financingb. Impact investingc. Crowdfunding

Question 1: What inspired, surprised or challenged you in what you heard on innovative financing today?

Question 2: What’s emerging for your work?

Sub-Question for the host:

How are this innovative financing mechanism relevant to your work? What opportunities do you see? What new connections are you making?

Question 3: With regards to innovative financing, what needs the immediate attention of the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth and its network to scale up action and impact on labour market outcomes of youth?

Venue

R2




Speaker 1

Speaker name

Valter Nebuloni


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Speaker designation

Development Specialist

Description

Valter Nebuloni, development specialist with 25 years of working experience in the employment area. At present, Valter heads the Youth Employment Programme Unit of the International Labour Organization’s Employment Policy Department. He previously occupied ILO positions at the International Training Centre of the organization in Turin, Italy, the Multidisciplinary Team for Sahel in Dakar, Senegal, the Development Policies Department, and the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok, Thailand. Valter holds a Master’s degree in Development Cooperation from the University of Perugia, Italy. The early stages of his professional experience include assignments with the European Commission and private consultancy firms in the development field.

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Moderator

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Session 9

Start time:

15:30

End time:

16:30

Session title

Marketplace: Joint action for Decent Jobs for Youth

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Session description

The Marketplace provided an interactive platform for participants’ organizations identify collaboration opportunities across thematic priorities of Decent Jobs for Youth.

FAO and ILO: Promoting decent jobs for youth in the rural economy: creativity and innovation ILO and iGravity: What can we learn from (and for) ILO’s engagement with the financial sector

for youth employment? ITC, ILO, UNCDF, UNCTAD, UNIDO: Action for youth entrepreneurship and self-employment The Aspen Institute and Global Development Incubator: Global Opportunity Youth Coalition UNDP and ILO: Youth Employment for Peace and Resilience UN Environment and ILO: Green jobs for youth UNESCO and ILO: Quality apprenticeships WHO and ILO: The OECD - ILO – WHO Working for Health programme

Venue

ILO Library




Speaker 1

Speaker name

Susanna Pak



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Description


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Moderator

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Twitter


Linkedin



Speaker 2

Speaker name

Peter Wobst


FAO

Speaker designation

Senior Economist and Team Leader of the Decent Rural Employment Team

Description

Peter Wobst is Senior Economist and Team Leader of the Decent Rural Employment Team within the Social Policies and Rural Institutions division of the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. His current work areas include decent work issues, youth employment, child labour prevention and migration with a strong focus on informal agricultural occupations in rural areas of developing countries. Prior to this, Dr. Wobst was the Coordinator of the FAO component of the EC-financed All ACP Agricultural Commodity Programme, which aimed at strengthening stakeholder capacities to develop and implement sustainable commodity strategies. From 2005 to 2008, he was an officer at the European Commission, working at the Sustainability in Agriculture Unit of IPTS (DG JRC) in Seville and subsequently at the Competitiveness and Economic Reforms Unit at DG Enterprise and Industry in Brussels, where he worked on the assessment of Lisbon Strategy type structural reforms and the analysis of the EU energy and climate change package. Prior to 2005, Dr. Wobst worked for about a decade for the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, DC.

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Speaker 3

Speaker name

Patricia Richter



Speaker designation

Senior Technical Officer

Description

Patricia Richter is a Senior Technical Officer at the International Labour Organization’s Social Finance Programme. A development finance professional with over fifteen years of experience, Patricia’s expertise covers areas of social performance and impact measurement, rural finance and risk management with a regional focus on Africa and Asia. Patricia is managing the ILO Social Finance Unit’s collaboration with the Africa Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund looking at how positive social and environmental impact of agricultural investments can be improved. She is leading the unit’s work on social and environmental management systems as well as on innovative finance. Before joining the ILO in 2007, Patricia worked as researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Development Research and Policy in Germany, served on the Board of the Melton Foundation, and worked as advisor on economic development at a regional parliament in Germany. Patricia holds a PhD in Economics and an M.A. in Intercultural Management and Business Administration. She serves on the Technical Review Committee of the Social Performance Task Force.

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Speaker 4

Speaker name

Patrick Elmer


iGravity

Speaker designation

Founder and Director

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Description

Patrick Elmer, Founder and Director, iGravity. Patrick works at the intersection of finance and global development, focusing on innovative solutions and partnerships that create opportunities for underprivileged people and protect our planet. He founded iGravity in March 2017 to support disruptive ideas, entrepreneurs, visionaries, and institutions in their impact investment [ad]ventures. Previously he worked as Head of Business Development at BlueOrchard, leading the sales strategy across multiple markets and developing new partnerships and structures. He was also Head of Responsible Investments and Philanthropy at Credit Suisse, advising clients on investment solutions and leading the bank’s efforts in creating novel partnerships and products in areas like microfinance, education, agriculture and conservation finance. Before that, Patrick worked for many years in Mozambique, Tanzania and Madagascar, first managing the private sector development portfolio of SECO (Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs) and later establishing and managing microfinance banks on behalf of public and private investors. Earlier professional experiences focused on consulting and financing of start-up companies. Patrick holds a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the University of St. Gallen and a Master’s degree on Developing Countries from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.

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Speaker 5

Speaker name

David Cordobés



Speaker designation

Youth and Trade programme manager

Description

David Cordobés joined the International Trade Centre (ITC) in 2006 to lead trade-related technical assistance initiatives. Prior to this, he worked as a Business Unit Manager for a leading consulting company in high technology services in aeronautics, spatial and banking sectors in Mexico and France. He is an expert in inclusive and business development with experience supporting over 40 developing countries across four continents on: youth economic empowerment, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises’ competitiveness, social entrepreneurship and market intelligence. David currently leads ITC’s Youth and Trade Programme and supports technical cooperation projects in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa region. David holds a Master degree in business administration from the Universidad La Salle of Mexico and a Master degree in

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international relations and geopolitics from Sciences Po Toulouse. He speaks Spanish, French and English.

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Speaker 6

Speaker name

Marlen de la Chaux



Speaker designation

N/A

Description

Marlen de la Chaux’s work at the International Labour Organization focuses on enterprise and value chain development. She is interested in how young people create businesses in adverse environments and has worked with entrepreneurs in different contexts, from Nairobi’s technology start-up community to refugee camps in Kenya. She also worked with young women across Burkina Faso. Prior to joining the ILO, Marlen worked for the German Federal Ministry of the Interior and for the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She holds a PhD and MPhil from the University of Cambridge, UK.

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Speaker 7

Speaker name

Jamie McAuliffe


The Aspen Institute

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Speaker designation

Senior Fellow

Description

Jamie McAuliffe is a Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions working on global youth employment programming. Previously, Jamie was President and CEO of Education For Employment (EFE) where he led the organization during a period of dramatic growth to provide job opportunities for tens of thousands of youth across eight affiliated nonprofits in the Middle East and North Africa. Prior to EFE, Jamie was Portfolio Manager at the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, a foundation dedicated to scaling solutions to help vulnerable youth become successful adults. Early in his career, Jamie worked with Ashoka to support leading social entrepreneurs globally. Jamie is an alumnus of Teach for America and the Coro Fellows program. He earned a B.A. from Georgetown University and an M.A. from Johns Hopkins School of International Studies. He is a Schwab Foundation Global Social Entrepreneur and a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Speaker 8

Speaker name

Alice Gugelev


Global Development Incubator

Speaker designation

Director

Description

Alice Gugelev is a Director at GDI where she works with large corporations, commercial investors and INGOs to integrate social impact, innovation and entrepreneurship efforts into their portfolios, and helps philanthropists and social enterprises more effectively create systems-level change. Prior to joining GDI, Alice worked at Bridgespan, Bain & Co, the World Bank and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi. She is the co-founder and executive director of The Muskoka Foundation, as well as the co-founder and chief strategy officer of AppMkr. Alice earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and has a double major BA in International Economics and East Asian Studies from Columbia University and Stanford Japan Center.

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Speaker 9

Speaker name

Luisa Bernal


UNDP

Speaker designation

Director

Description

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Speaker 10

Speaker name

Felix Rüdiger



Speaker designation

Technical Officer, Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth

Description

Felix Rüdiger is a Junior Technical Officer in the Fragile States and Disaster Response Group of the International Labour Organization. His work focuses on evidence collection and management in the area of employment and decent work for peace and resilience. Felix studied International Relations in Berlin and Princeton.

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Speaker 11

Speaker name

In Woo Jung


UN Environment

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Description

In Woo Jung is an Associate Programme Officer at the Secretariat of the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), a partnership of five United Nation agencies that supports countries in transition to an inclusive green economy. Woo contributes to the partnership’s portfolios on country implementation, reporting and outreach from UN Environment. He is a South Korean national and holds dual degree in Master of Public Administration from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Speaker 12

Speaker name

Mito Tsukamoto



Speaker designation

Senior expert on Employment Intensive Investments

Description

Mito Tsukamoto is a senior expert on Employment Intensive Investments within the Employment Policy Department of the International Labour Organization. Mito joined the ILO in 1994, where she

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has worked in various capacities – and has worked on sustainable infrastructure development since about 2005. Linking humanitarian livelihoods, employment policy and natural and physical infrastructure development, she has worked in Bangkok and in Geneva on community-driven efforts to use employment intensive investments through public works programmes (PWP) over the last 11 years. She led the ILO team in strengthening the synergies between public employment programmes(PEP), social protection floor and climate change adaptation to address the different multiple objectives of PWPs – and highlighting their economic, social and environmental impact in addressing the need for decent work and social justice. In her most recent posting, she has contributed to the ILO’s response to the global economic and financial crisis where she co-authored a policy paper on “Towards the right to work: Innovations in Public Employment Programmes (PEP)” a “Guidebook for designing innovative PEPs”, and managed a team in the development of the training course and material on the same topic. She also continues to work on adaptation to climate change issues, where she co-authored a policy paper on “Towards an ILO approach to climate change adaptation” and on youth employment where she co-authored “Boosting youth employment through PEPs”. Mito holds an MBA and Honours Certificate in International Business Diplomacy from Georgetown University.

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Speaker 13

Speaker name

Ashwani Aggarwal



Speaker designation

Skills Development Systems Specialists

Description

Ashwani Aggarwal is a Skills Development Systems Specialists and global lead for work-based learning including on quality apprenticeships at the International Labour Organization (ILO). He served as ILO’s Youth Employment Coordinator for Africa and Senior Skills and Employment Specialist in Africa. Before joining the ILO, Ashwani worked in the Ministry of Labour and Employment and the private sector in India where he managed key components of a World Bank’s vocational training project. He has provided policy advice and capacity development services on skills development and youth employment to over 30 countries in all regions and established innovative skills policy systems and programs with positive impacts on employment outcomes and social inclusion. His areas of work range from quality apprenticeships and training for rural economic empowerment to recognition of prior learning and informal apprenticeships. Ashwani holds a Ph.D.

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degree in Technical Vocational Education and Training policy, systems and institutions and is an avid researcher and his work has been captured in various publications.

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Speaker 14

Speaker name

Basem Mohamed


World Health Organization

Speaker designation

Consultant

Description

Basem Mohamed is a Consultant at the health workforce department of the World Health Organization. He leads the Youth Hub at the Global Health Workforce Network with the aim of integrating youth in health workforce policy making.

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Speaker name

Delphine Santini



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Technical Officer

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Delphine Santini is a Technical Officer at the Sectoral Policies Department of the ILO. She focuses on public and private services sectors.

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Speaker 16

Speaker name

David Kapya



Speaker designation

Junior Project Office

Description

David Kapya joined the world of work as a Police Officer in the Zambia Police Service. His ten years of work in the police service saw him rise through rank-and-file to become one of the dependable senior officers until he decided to pursue another career outside of the police service in early 2015. Since then, David has worked for a number of international organisations including the South Centre, and now, the ILO where he is interning in the Sectoral Policies (SECTOR) Department under the Public & Private Services Unit. His current research interests revolves around Public Emergency Services, Shopping & Consumer trends, Youth Employment in Public Services and Corruption.

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Session 10

Start time:

16:30

End time:

17:30

Session title

Road to 2030: What’s next for Decent Jobs for Youth

Session description

The 2030 Agenda has placed the importance and urgency of achieving full and productive employment and decent work for all at the centre of a shared new development vision. The Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth represents a unique partnership platform to promote youth employment and has secured 26 pledges for action that aim to improve the quantity and the quality of jobs for over 16 million young women and men around the world. At the closing panel, partners of the Initiative shared their strategic views to advance the Initiative’s objective, emphasizing the role of multi-stakeholder partnerships to create decent job opportunities, empower youth, and secure a positive pathway of tangible contributions towards youth employment and the SDGs.

Recognizing the need to mobilize resources to increase the scale of activities leading up to the year 2030, partners highlighted the importance of the SDG fund and of leveraging innovative financing mechanisms. Investments in skills development remain a vital steppingstone to improve employment outcomes of youth, and a focus on life, digital and entrepreneurship skills is key to connect young people to growing job opportunities in a changing world of work. The engagement of youth and contextualization of strategies need to remain priorities as the Initiative moves forward with scaling up action and impact at country-level.

Venue

Salle II




Speaker 1

Speaker name

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In sessions where ILO is the only organizer, I suggest we remove it since we want to highlight co-organized sessions. There are too many sessions with only the ILO logo. We can discuss.

Irina Akinshina


Lukoil

Speaker designation

Project Manager

Description

Irina Akinshina, is the director for Human Resources at LITASCO, SA, the international marketing and trading company of LUKOIL. She is a Member of CIPD association and holder of degrees in Corporate Economics and Legal Support. She joined LUKOIL in 2002 and worked for a number of years in HR for different Upstream Projects. In 2008, she joined LITASCO SA (International Trading branch of LUKOIL). Since 2014, she leads the HR function in LITASCO SA and specializes in Organizational Management, Compensation & Benefits, Motivation and Performance Management.

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Frank van Rompaey


United Nations Industrial Development Organization to the UN in Geneva

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UNIDO Representative to the UN and international organizations in the UNIDO Liaison Office in Geneva

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Frank van Rompaey is the UNIDO Representative to the UN and international organizations in the UNIDO Liaison Office in Geneva. An economist by training, he has been with UNIDO for over 20 years –working in different capacities at both field and headquarters level. His main area of interest and expertise lies in industrial policy and in the strategies and policies for structural economic transformation and sustainable industrialization. He has published on the topic of environment and industry in developing countries. As a UNIDO representative in African countries, he has worked on technical cooperation programmes in the areas of industrial upgrading and trade capacity building. Prior to joining UNIDO, he worked in the private sector. The mandate of UNIDO is to promote and accelerate inclusive and sustainable industrial development (ISID) to achieve shared prosperity and environmental sustainability around the world. The concept of ISID is included in the Sustainable

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Development Goals, namely Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.

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Yushi Torigoe



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Deputy to the Director and Chief of Administration and Operations Coordination Department

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Yushi Torigoe is the Deputy to the Director and Chief of Administration and Operations Coordination Department at the International Telecommunications Union. He leads the overall coordination and promotion of activities of the Telecommunication Development Sector, including the organization of World Telecommunication Development Conference, Telecommunication Development Advisory Group and other meetings. He also leads the Telecommunications Development Bureau finance, administration and human resource services. Mr Torigoe is also co-chair of the steering committee of the joint ITU/WHO Be He@lthy Be Mobile initiative. Before joining ITU, he held various senior positions in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan. He was the Director, responsible for radio spectrum policy, mobile satellite communications and radio equipment certification, and the Director of the International Organizations Office, which dealt with all matters related to ITU and other international organizations. Mr Torigoe also served as acting Councillor for many ITU Council meetings and participated in a number of major ITU and other international conferences and meetings. He was a Director at the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses, a standards development organization for radiocommunication, and a Managing Director at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology. He also worked in the Office of the Secretary-General of ITU and in the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity secretariat. Mr Torigoe holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Imperial College, London, and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

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Akustina Morni


International Organisation of Employers

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Akustina Morni is the Youth Employment Specialist at the International Organization of Employers (IOE). She recently joined the IOE which hosts the secretariat of the Employers‘ Group to the International Labour Organization. Akustina has over ten years of experience in international diplomacy, attained from her tenure as a diplomat in charge of labour and human rights issues at the Permanent Mission of Brunei Darussalam to the United Nations in Geneva, research officer at the Brunei Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and as junior technical officer at the ILO. Prior to joining the IOE, she was the programme focal point at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). She has a Masters Degree in Public Policy (Brunei) and a Business Degree with a double major in management and marketing (Australia). She is currently policy adviser for the Asia-Pacific region, monitoring cross-cutting issues such as youth employment.

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Luiz Gustavo de Padua Walfrido Filho


General Union of Workers in Brazil

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Youth Secretary

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Luiz Gustavo de Padua Walfrido Filho, Youth Secretary at the General Union of Workers in Brazil.

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Salvatore Nigro


Education For Employment

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Global Vice-president

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Salvatore Nigro is Global Vice-President of Education For Employment (EFE), the largest youth employment organisation in the Middle East and North Africa region. In this capacity, he leads EFE’s business development, partnership and programme management in Europe, supporting operations across eight countries in the region. With over fifteen years of experience in workforce development and strategic management, prior to joining EFE Salvatore was Director of Advocacy at the Glocal Forum, where he contributed to one of the largest campaigns for youth and children in conflict areas: We Are the Future. He has advised governments, international organisations and employment agencies in the Mediterranean on the development of youth employment policies and programmes. He holds an MBA from the University of Malta, an MA in International Strategic Studies, an MA in International Political Science and a BA in Political Science from LUISS University.

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Patricia Molano


SOS Children's Villages International

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Head of International Corporate Partnerships and Philanthropy

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Patricia Molano holds the position of Head of International Corporate Partnerships and Philanthropy at SOS Children’s Villages International since 2014. In this role Patricia manages the operations of SOS Children’s Villages’ international corporate partnerships portfolio as well as the organization‘s global network of corporate fundraisers and relationship managers. Part of her portfolio is focusing on partnerships for youth employability. In the global project YouthCan! the organization has established a practitioners network of reputable companies with the joint aim to increase youth employability in at least 40 countries until 2020. Before joining SOS Children‘s Villages International, Patricia worked for SOS Children‘s Villages in Sweden with corporate relations and fundraising following her experience within corporate responsibility and international business development in the private sector.

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Sukti Dasgupta



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Chief of the Employment and Labour Market Policies Branch

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Sukti Dasgupta is Chief of the Employment and Labour Market Policies Branch in the International Labour Office in Geneva, which includes ILO’s portfolio on youth employment. She previously worked at the ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok and in the field offices in South Asia and East Asia. She holds a PhD degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge, UK. She has published widely in the areas of employment, poverty and gender. She has extensive experience in working with policymakers on employment and labour market policies.

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Quote Name Designation & organizationYouth is a diverse group and one needs to adapt future strategies with respect to the technological changes, gender equality, youth rights at work, etc.

Suskti Dasgupta Ms, International Labour Organization

Industries jobs creation potential manifests itself predominantly at the lower levels of economic

Frank van Rompaey Mr, Representative of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to the United Nations in Geneva

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development. For these reasons, lower income countries in particular, have to prioritize highest level of industrial development in the socio-economic development.Talent is universal but opportunities are not.

Salvatore Nigro Mr, Education for Employment

Session 11

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17:30

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18:00

Session title

Closing

Session description

The closing remarks highlighted four strategic elements of the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth and called for actions from potential partners. It also included the acknowledgement for the stakeholders and individuals who supported the organizing of the event.

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Salle II




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Sukti Dasgupta



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ILO’s Chief of the Employment and Labour Market Policies Branch

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Sukti Dasgupta is Chief of the Employment and Labour Market Policies Branch in the International Labour Office in Geneva, which includes ILO’s portfolio on youth employment. She previously worked at the ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok and in the field offices in South Asia and East Asia. She holds a PhD degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge, UK. She has published widely in the areas of employment, poverty and gender. She has extensive experience in working with policymakers on employment and labour market policies.station KHON2 News in Hawaii. Her work has been published by United Nations TV, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Businessweek, MarketWatch, UPI, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post and The Miami Herald, among others.

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Moderator

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Sangheon Lee



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ILO’s Director of the Employment Policy Department

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Sangheon Lee is the Director of the Employment Policy Department of the International Labour Organization which leads ILO’s action for promoting full and productive employment by developing integrated employment, development and skills policies. Before his current position, he was the Special Adviser to the Deputy Director-General for Policy on Economic and Social Issues (2014-18), providing advice on analytical work, policy development and advocacy across a range of economic, employment and social issues as well as coordinating ILO’s work at multilateral fora such as G20, G7, and BRICS. Sangheon has written extensively on economic, employment and labour issues, including articles in the International Labour Review and Socio-Economic Review, as well as editing volumes under the global research project of Regulating for Decent Work (Palgrave Macmillan) and other research projects. He is also one of the main authors of ILO flagship reports such as the Global Wage

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Report and the World Employment and Social Outlook. He co-authored Working Time around the World (2007 Routledge). Sangheon holds a PhD in Economics from Cambridge University.

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· Web viewTable of Contents. Table of Contents1. Event information2. Contact for event information3. Overview3. Basic Information3. Detailed Information4. Programme4. About