Guides to Youth Employment

Improving Prospects for Young Women and Men in the World of Work is an ILO publication that provides a Guide to Youth Employment.

ILO have also published Youth Unemployment and Employment Policy: A Global Perspective which is also available online.

Pacific Youth Mapping Exercise

Youth programmes across the Pacific are currently being mapped, for the first time, to create a picture of exactly what work is being done in the region with young people. SPC member Governments, development partners, civil society organisations, youth groups and regional organisations such as SPC and United Nations bodies have all be surveyed on what they are doing for young people.

For more information contact Rose Maebiru, SPC Human Development Adviser (Youth)

Rural Youth Livelihoods

Rural Youth Livelihoods, a DFID funded programme, has a useful set of international and Africa resources available online that might be useful in developing youth and agriculture strategies. It also has links to other youth networks and organisations.

UN youth resources online

A one-stop shop for youth-related documents from the library of the UN. Read here.

The State of Pacfic Youth Report 2005

UNICEF Pacific, the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and the UNFPA Office for the Pacific collaborate to produce the State of Pacific Youth report 2005. The current State of Pacific Youth Report is available for download here. The report presents a very comprehensive survey of the main issues facing Pacific youth today and an analysis of the their causes before concluding with strategic approaches to addressing youth problems.