Ecuador: Youth, Employment, Migration – Reducing Inequalities in Ecuador
JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS
Total Budget $5,667,000
Delivery Rate
Main Achievements
- Establishment of production agendas in priority sectors with public-private participants.
- Enrolment of 308 youth in programs promoting workforce integration; 450 trained in entrepreneurship.
- Development of a study of routes used by young migrants for irregular migration.
Contact Milton Garcia, milgarcia@hotmail.com, Programme coordinator
The Programme will help to enhance the social and economic opportunities for young men and women experiencing situations of social, economic, gender, territorial and cultural inequities.
This will be achieved by means of the inclusion of young people in the labour market, through fostering of profitable employment and economic enterprises; promoting the coordinated implementation at regional level of national youth-employment policies, along with those on socio-economic inclusion and migration, focusing on the economic, social and cultural rights of young people; and strengthening the systems that protect the rights of young people and the governance of public policies backed by the civic participation of young people. This intervention will allow progress towards the MDG 8, in order to provide young people with access to a job that is decent and productive and, through achieving the MDG, aimed at promoting gender equality. The Programme will be led by the National Ministry of Migrants.