ILO’s ROLE IN YOUTH EMPLOYMENT

New Delhi, 18 December 2006

NEW DELHI, 19 December (INFA): The International Lablour Organisation (ILO) with its tripartite constituency and global alliances, can be a catalyst for action on youth employment.

At the national level, governments along with employer and worker organizations, are major players in the development of youth employment policies and programmes.

At the international level, the ILO’s leading role in the UN Secretary-General’s Youth Employment Network (YEN)--- a global partnership of the World Bank, the United Nations and the ILO---provides a major opportunity to build international consensus and influence the international agenda with a comprehensive strategy for the employment and social inclusion of young people.

The ILO’s programme on youth employment operates through a global network of technical specialists at its headquarters in Geneva and in more than 60 offices around the world. It provides assistance to countries in developing coherent and coordinated interventions on youth employment. Work in this area includes: Data collection on the nature and dimensions of youth employment, unemployment and underemployment’; analysis of the effectiveness of country policies and programmes on youth employment, technical assistance in the formulation and implementation of plants of action on youth employment and development of tools and training material,

Also it includes policy advice to strengthen in-country labour market policies and programmes for youth employment and capacity building for governments, employer and worker organizations; advocacy and awareness-raising activities to promote decent work for youth with a focus on employability, employment and workers’ rights’; establishment of strategic partnerships on youth employment between private and public sectors at the international, sub-regional and national levels; promotion of cross-country and global peer networks to achieve better performance and share good-practice experiences among ILO constituents and other stakeholders; and collaboration with multilateral and other international institutions to ensure policy coherence across national initiatives affecting youth employment.---INFA

CITY HAM RADIO

HYDERABAD, December 19 (INFA): For the first time, Hyderabad Ham Radio operators will set up a base in three islands of Lakshadweep on January 30 as part of a ham test expedition taken up by ham radio operators across the globe.

After a year of intense lobbying, the National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad has managed to get permission from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to operate Ham from the islands of Lakshwadeep.---INFA