The Green Jobs for Youth Pact is an interagency partnership between the ILO, UNEP and UNICEF, with and for youth, bringing together governments, businesses, and educational institutions through three tracks:
- Employment creation & entrepreneurship
- Development of new, decent green jobs
- Greening of existing jobs
- Fostering green startups and young entrepreneurs
- Environmental education & skills for green jobs
- Governments and academic institutions to integrate sustainability into curricula and training programs (universities and TVETs)
- Green skills training and assessment
- Empowerment & youth engagement
- Youth advocacy for green transition policies
- Mentorship, capacity building, bootcamps, training and accelerator programs to support youth-led green businesses and promote green skills
Objectives:
- Aggregate: To track progress of existing/new initiatives around specific indicators for green jobs and green skills and agreed taxonomy and definitions.
- Promote: Through promoting the efforts at local/national/regional level undertaken by the different stakeholders around the green jobs and green skills for youth agenda.
- Coordinate: Through coordinating new and evolving research, best practices, events, and standards to create ONE common platform to showcase commitments and success.
- Encouraging: By encouraging our members and youth to take leadership, push this agenda by monitoring and evaluating, enhancing other stakeholders to report on objectives and share progress to influence global action.
- Collaborate: By collaborating with all relevant national and international stakeholders, and especially youth to enhance action on this agenda.
