Youth and their organizations should play a leading role in that work.

A short history of youth work in Zambia (1988)

(a) Special job schemes for young people.

102. Work experience contracts for young people

(c) Work experience employment contract for young people

Jobs in which the employment of teenagers is prohibited, as well as exceptions when employment in such jobs is permitted in relation to the vocational training of the teenager are provided by the CM.

On the basis of this list, establishments should describe the posts and kinds of jobs prohibited to adolescents, as well as the jobs permitted to be done by adolescents for the purposes of their vocational training.

The number of adolescents working in individual farming constitutes 86 per cent of youth working as a source of income.

A survey of the opinion of people working with young persons teachers, vocational counsellors and youth workers on prostitution was made (autumn 2002).

62. Encourages youth organizations and young persons from various non governmental organizations to participate in the meetings of the Working Group

Furthermore, an employer shall not require a young worker to work overtime or on holiday.

This corresponds to about 17,700 young people working about 120 hours per year.

The employment figure for 15 to 18 year olds working in Panama is 27.1 per cent 18 year olds have the highest employment rate, accounting for 40 per cent of these young workers.

Most often the young people perform their jobs on a part time basis (see table 30).

Young people are made aware of the work of the youth counselling centres also through other sexual education projects.

368. In accordance with the Labour Code, it is forbidden to employ adolescents in prohibited types of work.

There were many opportunities for youth organizations in the area of unemployment.

Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana apos s field workers training evaluation Consultant, YWCA youth programmes

In 2003 the counselling service was advocated among Russian speaking youths, in 2004 efforts were directed to informing young men.

Next year we will be carrying out the first youth survey, which will give us an initial baseline as to the actual situation of youth and thereby help us adapt our intervention planning aimed at young people.

It is interesting that the vast majority of youth work in the informal sector of the economy more than two thirds of young employed persons work in the grey economy .

UN Habitat and youth strategy for enhanced engagement, a working document

World Confederation of Work and World Federation of Democratic Youth.

The employment programmes for young persons include the Equity and Work Promotion Programme for Young People, which intends to promote better opportunities for the young in the work environment by affirmative measures promoting their incorporation into productive work and the creation of formal self employment opportunities in conditions of equity.

Among the young people native to the agriculture sector, 38 per cent of children aged 10 to 12 helped out on the farm which, with equal numbers of children per year, makes for a total of 4,500 young people.

(b) To young specialists and skilled workers in an amount of 80 per cent of the minimum wage, for a period of six months for young specialists and three months for young skilled workers

During the meeting, two youth participants presented the work of the youth peer education electronic resource (Y PEER) and stressed the important role of young people and peer education in the region.

(ii) Promote volunteering within educational establishments and youth services develop specific programmes to encourage youth volunteering put in place systems to recognize and accredit volunteering by youth and work with the media to present an attractive image of volunteering. This can have a significant impact on the level of youth participation and constitute a sound investment in a country's human resources.

Honor is a delicate word...

Zambia

The world's young people are using their leisure time to become involved in volunteer work.

But a great deal more needs to be done to highlight the needs of young people.

Efforts should be made to ensure that these forms of work experience do not exploit youth.

Liaison with NGOs and youth groups included the following

The Ministry of Youth and Sports has been working with UNAMSIL and the United Nations country team to address youth related issues, particularly the problem of unemployment, and to implement the National Youth Policy designed towards that end.

As an active contributor to the Youth Employment Network, ILO had a special role to play in promoting youth employment and could act as a catalyst in mobilizing support and implementing integrated policies and programmes to effectively meet the Millennium Declaration's commitment on decent and productive work for youth.

The Global Youth Network against Drug Abuse project now links approximately 300 youth groups and community based organizations working on the prevention of substance abuse among young people.

The engagement of youth in the work of UN Habitat can be further advanced through the inclusion by Governments of youth or a youth subcommittee within those national steering organs.

Regulating the working conditions of young people who have reached the minimum age of admission to employment (duration of work, pay, holidays, night work and medical checks)

To involve and empower young people, UNFPA established a youth advisory panel, a special youth programme, and sponsored the participation of young people in regional consultations to develop the UNAIDS unified budget and workplan for 2006 2007.

August 1990 Worked for the Youth Affairs Council of Victoria, a non governmental organization, researching the Government apos s income support mechanisms for disadvantaged young people

The role of youth

1988 to 1995 Member, Executive Committee of the National Coordinating Body for work with children and adolescents

Girl and Adolescent Domestic Employees, 1992

A global project on youth started in 1997 to develop a knowledge base and a network of youth organizations as partners in drug abuse prevention and demand reduction.