World Youth Skills Day: Here's all you need to know about the UN event

United Nations observes World Youth Skills Day on July 15th of every year. This day is of special importance as it celebrates skills for entrepreneurship, employment, self-sufficiency among young people across world. UN also ackwledges and commemorates path-breaking work of youth in ir respective fields and encours and equips ors with technical and vocational training to reach ir goals.

day came into existence in July 2014. Since n, UN has provided "a unique opportunity for dialogue between young people, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions, firms, employers’ and workers’ organizations, policymakers and development partners." This year World Youth Day is taking place during unprecedented circumstances of COVID-19 pandemic. However, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)  has made sure to arrange online regional forums to highlight project results and impact, based on implementation of technical and vocational education and training (TVET).

strategic importance of World Youth Skills Day:

In 2014, United Nations General Assembly declared 15 July as World Youth Skills Day, to celebrate strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work, and entrepreneurship, UN ncy wrote in current year's 'Reimagining Youth Skills Post-Pandemic' press release. This year UNESCO and UN are set to celebrate resilience and creativity of youth in wake of pandemic. me this year is 'Reimagining Youth Skills Post-Pandemic.'

me: 'Reimagining Youth Skills Post-Pandemic'

pandemic has left a huge impact on TVET process of youth empowerment and education. "World Youth Skills Day 2021 will take place in a challenging context, with continuation of COVID-19 pandemic resulting in widespread disruption of TVET sector," UN informed. However, ncy has hoped that "vaccination rollouts" would provide quick recovery to setback. Neverless, UN has also ackwledged that "TVET still has a long road to recovery, especially in those countries which continue to be overwhelmed by spread of disease." Moreover, youth skills development is also expected to face a range of unfamiliar problems emerging from a crisis where training has been disrupted in an unprecedented manner on a virtually universal scale.

According to UN directives, a virtual event will be organized by Permanent Missions of Sri Lanka and Portugal to UN, Office of Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth, UNESCO, and ILO will offer an opportunity to reflect on skills that are needed today and for future. Next, participants will take stock of how TVET sector has adapted to pandemic and recession, think of how TVET institutions can participate in recovery, and imagine priorities y should adopt for post-COVID-19 world. forum will also mark World Youth Skills Day, and include representatives and direct beneficiaries from participating countries; relevant TVET stakeholders and partners; regional and international TVET experts, and youth representatives and organizations, UN directives concluded. 

(Input: UN/UNESCO/Twitter)