Equal opportunity and youth employment
The United Nations, the World Bank and the International Labour Organisation launched the Youth Employment Network (YEN) to address the global youth unemployment problem. ICRW authored this working paper to support the activities of the Equal Opportunity Working Group of the YEN, which was charged with developing recommendations to eliminate gender-based inequality between young women and men in access to and treatment in education, training and employment.
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