Albania

To support the integration of various youth employment policy objectives through coordinated action, four Agencies of the United Nations Country Team of Albania designed a comprehensive Joint Programme. The Joint Programme, financed by the Spanish Government through the Millennium Development Goal Trust Fund (MDGTF) promotes decent employment for youth as a national priority and proposes to address disadvantaged youth with targeted labour market measures aiming to minimize the risks of engaging in irregular migration through improved productivity, upgraded informal enterprises and better conditions of work.

Its implementation approach is based on a set of coordinated interventions that draw on the mandate, expertise and added value of the national and local partners as well as of the ILO, IOM, UNDP and UNICEF. It builds on three interlinked outcomes that aim to: i) strengthen the capacity of labour market institutions to integrate and operationalize national policy priorities through a National Action Plan on youth employment, ii) devise strategies that minimize the risks of migration of disadvantaged youth from rural areas, and iii) increase the positive impact of migration through the mobilization of resources for youth employment. Programme interventions have been piloted in two regions of Northern Albania (Kukes and Shkodra) that are highly affected by informal employment and migration of young people.

UNDP Direct Execution (DEX)

Dajna Sorensen
Project Officer YEM
E-mail:dajna.sorensen@undp.org

Signed Project Document - EN/ALB - 24 July 2008