How young people can solve the youth employment crisis
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Unemployment, and crucially, underemployment, is a challenge faced by young people around the world.
By Jenny Bowie
With young people four times more likely to be out of work, it is hard to deny that we have a youth employment crisis. This is despite decades of employment programmes and initiatives targeting young people. Urgent solutions are needed to meet the challenge to create the estimated 600 million new jobs that will be needed by 2030.
Last year, as part of Restless Development’s work with the Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE) coalition, I travelled to India and Colombia to hear from young people their ideas for how to solve this crisis, and what their role should be in leading the response.
In Colombia I met Lina, a 26-year-old marketing intern living in Bogotá, who shared her passion for changing attitudes of employers towards young people.
She said: "As millennials we present magnificent qualities that have not been explored by many, mainly for fear of difference and ...
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