The forum, held in response to the ILO-launched March Youth Employment Month, provided an opportunity for young people and youth-related organisations such as universities, vocational research centres, and vocational training and consultancy services to share their opinions and present proposals to policymakers to promote jobs for young people.
Addressing the event, Deputy Minister of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs Doan Mau Diep said that youth employment is a global issue that has attracted the attention of policymakers around the word as so many people, including a remarkable number of young people, are currently jobless due to the economic and financial crisis.
He affirmed that Vietnamese Government always encourages the youth to integrate into the labour market through its policies on education and training, as well as job promotion programmes, in order to realise the national target of sustainable development.
According to MOLISA figures, there are 16.2 million young people in Vietnam who are of working age, accounting for nearly 32% of the country’s labour force.
Many employment programmes and policies have been successfully implemented and more than 8 million jobs have been created since 2006, 40% for young people.
Minimising youth unemployment in the future was also discussed at the forum, including enhancing the quality of training and professional programmes that link education and training directly to market demands, fostering support policies for employment and labour exports and encouraging recently graduated young people to work in remote and mountainous areas.
