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Arab youth employment: knowing what works andwhat doesn’t

The hot-button topics of Arab youth and job creation in the Arab World will be tackled by policy makers,practitioners, academics, and researchers, at a Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) hostedsymposium, where participants will present and discuss the evidence base for “what works” in increasingthe employment and productivity of youth in the region

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other developing regions, and introduce impact evaluation findings that are vital tools for developingevidence-based policy creation. The Evidence Symposium on “What Works” to improve youth labourproductivity will also offer teachings on impact evaluation methods and “rules of operation” to promote thisvital instrument in policy development.

The Symposium at GU-Q is organized by the International Labour Organization in partnership withSilatech, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab and the Arab Urban Development Institute.

John T. Crist, Director of Research at GU-Q, said “A tremendous strain has been placed on labor marketsboth here in the Arab World, and worldwide, through a persistent pattern of unemployment,underemployment, and vulnerable employment. By hosting this symposium, we hope to contribute to thedialogue on how to improve this situation, and to provide the tools that will assist the policy makers,governments, and various institutions who are struggling with these issues.“

Dr. Ganesh Seshan, an Assistant Professor at GU-Q who specializes in Economics, stressed theimportance of including an impact evaluation element to the labor-focused symposium saying “For bothpublic and private sector programs that seek to address the labor challenges in the region, a clear pictureof what works, and what doesn’t, is really a key step in designing effective policies. So at this symposium,we will also be providing basic training to the participants in evaluating the efficacy and impact of bothcurrent, and future programs.”

Another goal of the event is to catalyse new partnerships amongst donors, implementers, andresearchers with the goal of advancing shared knowledge of what works, and what does not, in promotingemployment and entrepreneurship for disadvantaged young people. Susana Puerto, Senior YouthEmployment Specialist at the ILO explained that one of the goals of the conference was “to build a criticalmass of evaluation expertise in the region so that the black box of program implementation can beopened and shared with policy makers”.

Participants include policy makers, including senior government officials from Labour and YouthMinistries, international institutions and other development institutions, organizations providing job marketservices such as counseling, placement assistance, and training, and researchers who study youthemployment and entrepreneurship.

As part of the conference, a panel discussion titled “Evidence, Innovation & Experimentation: StimulatingEmployability and Entrepreneurship in the MENA Region” will be open for public attendance on March 9,2014, at 6:00 pm. The discussion of how the entrepreneurial sector can contribute to the development ofthe Arab labor market and the role Qatar is playing in addressing this critical issue will feature Dr. Tarik M.Yousef CEO of Qatar-based NGO Silatech, Raj Desai, Associate Professor of International Developmentat Georgetown University, Washington D.C., and Bruno Crépon, Professor of Economics at ENSAE andÉcole Polytechnique, France.

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