1. YOUTH AND SKILLS Putting education to work Pauline Rose Cairo, Egypt April 2013 @efareport / #YouthSkillsWork

2. Key messages: EFA Global Monitoring Report 2012  Progress towards Education for All is stagnating  Aid to education is slowing down  Slow progress has left a huge skills deficit among young people  Poor urban and rural youth, especially women, urgently need support to acquire skills

3. Number of out-of-school children of primary school age, 1999–2010 Progress towards UPE has ground to a halt Source: UIS database

4. Youth and skills

5. Pathways to skills One in four young people is in a job being paid less than $1.25 per day One in five young people in the Arab States countries has not completed primary school One in six of the world’s people is aged between 15- 24-years-old One in two in the Arab States are under 25 years old One in eight young people is unemployed

6. Pathways to skills  Technical and vocational skills  Transferable skills  Foundation Skills

7. Pathways to skills A primary and lower secondary education gives young people foundation skills. Young people learn transferable skills and technical and vocational at upper secondary school.

8. Pathways to skills Work-based training teaches transferable and technical and vocational skills through direct work experience. 200 million young people need a second chance.

9. Pathways to skills

10. Poverty is a barrier to young people acquiring foundation skills Not completed lower secondary school, 15 to 24 year olds, by wealth Source: World Inequality Database on Education: www.education-inequalities.orgwww.education-inequalities.org

11. In Yemen, 9 in 10 poor, rural young women do not acquire foundation skills Source: World Inequality Database on Education: www.education-inequalities.orgwww.education-inequalities.org Yement: Not completed lower secondary school, 15 to 24 year olds, by wealth, location and gender

12. In Jordan, many young women are not even seeking work Source: Understanding Children’s Work (2012). Percentage of 15- to 24- year olds classified as ‘inactive’ by gender and education level in Jordan

13. Make secondary school relevant to work Egypt adaptation of German dual system Injaz Al-Arab career guidance programme Providing skills through secondary schooling Support unemployed youth via training funds Tunisia training fund Combine basic skills with employability training Jóvenes programmes in Latin America Targeting unemployed youth Make foundation skills part of entrepreneurial skills training,combined with assets Questscope in Jordan Tackle discrimination Ishraq programme in Egypt Providing a second chance Putting education to work

14.  Ensure linkages between the education system and employers  Scale up programmes to reach the large numbers of unemployed  Make sure programmes target the most disadvantaged, including those working in poverty 3 overarching lessons

15. And finally… listen to the voices of young people Although I haven’t completed my education I need a chance. We want to work and give something good to the country. Young woman, Egypt

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