Youth members from nine Pacific Island nations are meeting at the Pacific Community (SPC) office in Fiji to tackle the immense challenge of securing decent work opportunities for young people.
The representatives are meeting with government officials, development partners and relevant stakeholders.
The Pacific Youth Consultation and Training: Improving Employment Opportunities for Youth in Fragile and/or Conflict-Affected Situations is being hosted in by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in partnership with the Pacific Community (SPC) and the Pacific Youth Council (PYC).
Over half of the Pacific’s 10 million people are under the age of 25, of which an alarming 23 percent are unemployed.
This four-day workshop aims to improve awareness on the challenges confronting Pacific youth and identify opportunities for addressing these challenges.
It also provides a platform to strengthen the voice of Pacific youth in the process of developing policies and programs that improve skills, employment and decent work outcomes for young Pacific people, especially those who live in what ADB considers as fragile and/or conflict affected situations following a methodology based on ADB’s country performance assessment