Monitoring report on how skills development can improve marginalised young people’s opportunities for decent jobs and better lives.

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What role should the private sector play in developing the skills of young people? That’s one of the questions likely to come up at two international events on the theme of our upcoming 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report – how skills development can improve marginalized young people’s opportunities for decent jobs and better lives.

This week 400 business, government and NGO leaders from the Middle East and North Africa gathered in Amman, Jordan, for the event Youth@Work to discuss how to tackle the crisis of youth and the world of work. Young people from the region were actively involved as moderators, panellists and participants.

“Today, one in four young people living in the Middle East and North Africa can’t find jobs. That’s the highest youth unemployment rate in the world”, said Christy Macy of the International Youth Foundation, which hosted the event together with the Arab Urban…

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