World Youth Skills Day - this year’s theme is Youth Engagement for Global Action which seeks to highlight the ways in which the youth of the world can engage at the local national and global levels to enrich national and multilateral collaboration.  

World Youth Skills Day was established by the UN in 2014. Its aim to encourage young people to empower themselves through training and education as being the keys to success in the workforce. Skills and jobs for youth feature prominently in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. UNESCO states that one reason for youth unemployment, which affects all regions around the world, is a mismatch between the skills workers can offer and the skills which are in demand. This is known as structural unemployment.

Further Information

For more information see https://www.un.org/development/desa/youth/iyd2020.html