Establish consistency between the initiatives taken towards youth
employment and international standards developed on this subject
matter.
-Design and implement a new National Government and Employers’
Agreement for the promotion of youth employment (2007);
-Validate the Document on the New National Employment Policy (NPNE) for the
net creation of a number of modern productive, sustainable and well-paid jobs
(2010);
-Create a single database for the management of job offers between the
National Labour Force Service and ANEJ, with the financial and technical
support of the International Labour Organization (ILO);
-Establish a Self-Employment Resource Unit (UNIR);
-Establish a Coordination Unit at the Ministry of Youth for capacity building
projects and programmes aimed at monitoring and evaluating youth
employment.
263. These different initiatives enabled ANEJ to guide and inform some 42,552
young persons, assist 8647 young people to receive well-paid vocational
training and 2465 others to prepare business plans and 3668 young ones to get
jobs in business enterprises and to create direct jobs91.
(d) Access to decent housing :
264. It is organized around two programmes:
The « Jaxaay » Plan which consists of rehousing the people in Dakar
suburbs whose houses were devastated by floods in the country
between 2007 and 2011 under very favourable financial terms ;
The programme is dubbed « one family-one roof »: This programme
targets the construction of 5000 public housing units in Dakar and in other
regions for Government employees and workers. Among others, it seeks
to :
o Promote alternative construction techniques ;
o Support the population as part of a self-building process ;
o Ensure compliance with building standards in the public housing
scheme for safety reasons ;
o Collect information on the availability of land for purposes of the
project ;
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See Report of the Study Tour on the Development of Skills for the Youth Employment Programme:
Policies/Measures taken to address youth unemployment in Senegal since 2000, Ankaraaris, January 2012, page
20.
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