African Union QUESTION 5: What policies and strategies are put in place for combating unemployment, particularly among the youth? Indicators a. Analyze the legal, political and institutional major factors that contribute to the fight against unemployment, in particular with regard to: - - strategies and policies; development programmes; human resource development initiatives (training, qualification, education, reversing the national brain-drain trend …); enabling environment for capital inflows. b. Describe measures and mechanisms taken to promote job creation, in particular among the youth, women and vulnerable groups: Describe policies and strategies that have been developed and implemented in the major sectors of the economy with a view to promoting employment creation and alleviating poverty; Provide biennial report on the status of the implementation of the Ouagadougou Plan of Action on Employment and Poverty Alleviation in Africa; Provide information about the contribution of the informal economic and rural sector to productive employment and sustainable growth. Develop strategies using microfinance as a vehicle to achieve social goals. Formulate national policy and regulatory framework for financial access to low income categories in place. Provide number of microfinance clients who have transformed from informal to formal businesses. c. Indicate measures taken to combat unemployment, in particular with regards to - Dealing with social aspect of unemployment (government aid and support for the unemployed) - Dealing with economic aspect of unemployment in terms of: attractiveness of investment; protection and increased competitiveness of enterprises; access to resources (credit, micro-finance, land …); 85