Promoting youth employment

Urges Governments to consider youth employment as integral to their overall strategies for development and collective security; renews the invitation to ILO, in collaboration with the UN Secretariat, the World Bank and other relevant specialized agencies, within the framework of the Youth Employment Network, to assist and support, upon request, the efforts of Governments in the elaboration and implementation of national reviews and action plans; recommends that the Youth Consultative Group of the Youth Employment Network be strengthened so that, in addition to its overall advisory role, it can play a more active role at the country level through its constituent youth organizations in supporting the development and implementation of national action plans; requests the Secretary-General to include in his comprehensive report on the implementation of the cluster entitled "Youth in the global economy" of the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond to be provided to the General Assembly at its 62nd session, and the substantive session of ECOSOC in 2007 through the Commission for Social Development at its 45th session, information on the implementation of the present resolution, including progress achieved by the Youth Employment Network.

Adopted without vote, 40th plenary meeting

In : Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 2006, New York, 17 Jan., 7 and 10 Feb., 14 and 22 Mar. and 8 May 2006; resumed organizational session for 2006, New York, 10 and 12 May 2006; substantive session of 2006, Geneva, 3-28 July 2006; resumed substantive session of 2006, New York, 11 Oct., 30 Nov. and 11 and 15 Dec. 2006 - E/2006/99 - p. 38-40 - (ESCOR, 2006, Suppl. no. 1).