Director-General of the International
Labour Organization (ILO), Guy Ryder, and Vagit Alekperov,
President of the Russian oil company LUKOIL, have signed
an agreement here to continue cooperation on youth
employment initiatives from 2018 to 2022.
The document
was signed at the Government House in the presence of the
Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Olga
Golodets, the Deputy Minister of Labour and Social
Protection of the Russian Federation, Lubov Eltsova,
President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and
Entrepreneurs, Alexander Shokhin, and Chairman of the
Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia, Mikhail
Shmakov.
The main objective of the second phase of the project
"Partnerships for youth employment in the CIS" is to further
improve the effectiveness of policies and programmes
promoting decent jobs for young people, based on broad
and sustainable partnerships, and informed and integral
policy frameworks.
Project is coordinated by ILO Decent Work Team and
Country Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, serving
Russia and 9 countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,
Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,
and Uzbekistan).
The project is implemented in Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and Uzbekistan. In the
Russian Federation, six pilot regions have been selected:
Astrakhan Region, Kaliningrad Region, the Republic of Komi,
Republic of Kalmykia, Perm Territory, and Khanty-Mansi
Autonomous Region.
At the strategic level, the project activities addressing youth
unemployment will feed directly into the UN’s Sustainable
Development Goals 2030 Agenda .
The project will
correlate with the implementation of the UN Global
Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth , adopted by the UN in
2016, through integrating the Initiative’s key elements into
the youth employment promotion policies in the
Commonwealth of Independent States.
Speaking at the signing ceremony, Guy Ryder said: “The
youth employment crisis reflects a huge decent work deficit
in societies worldwide and one of the main challenges of
our time. We have the unique opportunity to partner in
order to scale-up action on youth employment and tackle
this crisis head on.” Courtesy: ILO
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