The EU teams up with the ILO for a new regional project on youth NEETs in the Southern Neighbourhood
On 15 July, the ILO held an online launching event for the EU-funded regional Youth NEET programme in the Southern Mediterranean region, a ground-breaking initiative designed to support young people not in education, employment, or training (NEET).
Southern Mediterranean stakeholders convened for the online launching event of the EU-funded regional Youth NEET programme in the Southern Mediterranean region (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Occupied Palestinian Territory and Tunisia), a new initiative aimed at supporting young NEETs (young people not in education, employment, or training) by making public policies and services more responsive to their needs.
This three-year EU-funde project implemented by the ILO builds pon the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) Ministerial Declaration on Employment and Labour (Marrakech, 18 May 2022) and international commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals (with a dedicated target 8.6 on young NEETs).
The online launching event brought together European Commission representatives (DG NEAR and DG EMPL) including EU Delegations, government officials from the Southern Mediterranean region, workers’ and employers’ organizations, the ILO regional and country teams, the European Training Foundation, and the Union for the Mediterranean Secretariat.
