Peru: Peru: Promotion of employment and MSEs for Youth and Management of Juvenile Labor Migration

This program seeks to promote employment and microenterprise for the youth, and to manage their migration, through more and better job opportunities to secure decent work. To achieve this, a National Policy of Juvenile Employment and the institutional strengthening of the Ministry of Labor are needed, especially its Public Employment Service, the National Directorate of Employment, and the Regional Directorates.

Through them, and in alliance with regional governments, other public offices and the private sector, the program will focus on youth for: a) increase the coverage and efficacy of job placement, b) channel better information about the labor market; and, c) manage labor migration and lend technical assistance to MSEs. It will also focus on young women to assure that their labor insertion is compatible with their reproductive roles. Youth will have a promotional framework and stregthened institutions that will reduce their rates of urban unemployment and inactivity.