Yashashree Malpathak
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World Youth Skills Day, a day celebrated to recognise the strategic importance of providing relevant skills for employment, decent work, and entrepreneurship to the young generation was first declared by the United Nations General Assembly in 2014. This day is celebrated every year and encourages dialogue between the young generation, Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions, employers; and workers’ organisations, policy-makers, and development partners. The participants highlight the growing importance of skills as the world moves towards a sustainable development model.
World Youth Skills Day 2021 will celebrate youth's resilience and creativity in the face of adversity through its theme for the year, ‘Reimagining Youth Skills Post-Pandemic’. To commemorate World Youth Skills Day 2021, a virtual event has been organised to discuss the skills that youth today and in the future need to learn. The discussion panel has been organised by the Permanent Missions of Portugal and Sri Lanka to the United Nations, as well as UNESCO, the International Labour Organization, and the Office of the Secretary-General General's Envoy on Youth. This virtual event for the year 2021 will be held on Thursday, July 15th, from 8.30 p.m. to 10 p.m. IST.
Participants will assess how TVET systems have responded to the pandemic and the recession, consider how those systems may contribute to recovery, and consider objectives for the post-COVID-19 future. In today’s event, one panel will address the skills that are needed now and will be needed in the future, and the second panel will focus on TVET partnerships for ramping up youth skills development.
The objectives for World Youth Skill Day 2021 are also to examine the position of young people in terms of skills and employment both during and after the COVID-19 pandemic; find out how they have dealt with the crisis; highlight success stories of young people's creativity and resilience; and Debate the possibilities for skill development and the work as economies recover, as well as the effectiveness of national recovery strategies and development partner support.
