Support, mobilize and encourage the development of public policies aimed at the inclusion of young people in the job market. Under this conception, the Youth Productive Inclusion Laboratory was launched at the end of last September (Linc), at the Cinemateca Brasileira, during the Education and Work Meeting: Perspectives on Professional Education and Technological.
The initiative is the result of a partnership between the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), with the Center for Development of Public Management and Educational Policies at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Itaú Educação e Trabalho and the Unibanco Institute.
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According to recent data released by the Ministry of Labor and Employment, there are at least 5.2 million unemployed young people in the country, aged between 14 and 24. A portrait of the abandonment to which Brazilian youth has been relegated is the fact that only 20% of the segment attend university.
For the head of Education at Unicef Brazil, Monica Pinto, “the first step [of the laboratory] is to map the good experiences, good practices and good policies that already exist. From there, we will have some derivatives of this. One of them, obviously, is to carry out monitoring, technical support and support work for states that want to develop public policies in this regard”.
According to the organizers of the initiative, the laboratory's operation will be based on six axes: mapping of good practices; training; recognition; organization and production of academic knowledge; technical support; and monitoring indicators.
“We are also going to do a lot of engagement and dissemination work for those states that do not yet have a policy so that they can also engage and develop policies with a local vocation, listening to and serving the populations of their respective territories”, he added Monica.
The superintendent of Itaú Educação e Trabalho, Ana Inoue, understands that “this laboratory comes to support actions for the productive inclusion of youth. We currently have 20% of young people aged 18 to 24 at university and 80% outside. We have 88% of young people enrolled in public education. And we need to provide these young people with conditions for inclusion in the world of work, so that they can continue to develop. We need to provide conditions for this young man to move forward.”
At the moment, Brazil is the second country (losing the inverted 'title' only to South Africa), out of a total of 37 analyzed, with a higher proportion of young people, aged between 18 and 24, who do not study or work. In the age group analyzed, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report, 36% of young Brazilians do not study and are unemployed.
A “grand alliance” between public authorities, the private sector and organized civil society to offer opportunities to these young people. This is how Linc, the head of Unicef, defines the mission, stressing that “we have more than 20% of young people who are not developing their skills and competencies, who are not studying and are not having access to an opportunity to work. We are wasting our country’s youth.”
