NEET moot to discuss challenges confronting youth

ISLAMABAD, NOV 27 (DMN)  – NEET moot to discuss challenges confronting youth. The Human Resource Development Network (HRDN) will engage diverse stakeholders and partners in a conference ‘State of Youth in Pakistan – focusing on Youth Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) today (Thursday) at Marriott Hotel.

Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Youth Affairs Usman Dar will be the chief guest on the occasion while the guest speakers come from a strata national and international organizations. 

The conference is part of the 20th All Members Meeting of the HRDN aimed at devising an outline of the future strategy to empower neglected youth through education and skills development initiatives.  

Talking about the scope of the conference and the AMM, the HRDN chief executive Robeela Banghash told this scribe that youth is a most powerful force for transformational change. 

With their demographic size and more importantly their fresh ideas and energy, the youth can lead the way to sustainable human development if provided with a conducive environment.

She said, the skills gained from education and employment enable engagement, but this does not mean that uneducated and unemployed youth cannot be empowered or engaged.

NEET moot to discuss challenges confronting youth

In a society where the young outnumber the old, youth potential would be dangerously simplistic and pessimistically self-defeating.

The share of youth not in education, employment or training also known as "the NEET rate"that provides a measure of youth outside the educational system, not in training and not in employment.

Ms. Bangash said the conference would discuss about the state of youth in Pakistan focus being on NEET youth to have an overview of the major policies and strategies to reduce NEET rate in Pakistan to meet the target of SDG 8 by 2020.

During the conference the panelist from various government and private organization will have discussion on understanding NEET in Pakistan, enhancing human development through NEET Youth engagement, successful examples of mainstreaming NEET youth, decent work and Sustainable Development Goals: Strategies to reduce NEET rate in Pakistan, successful models from development and public and private sectors to engage youth in human development.

She said the HRD Network (HRDN) is a membership-based network, and think tank on HRD  established in 1999.

NEET moot to discuss challenges confronting youth

Membership base of the network includes more than 145 National and International Organizations (Universities, Think-tanks, Civil Society Organizations, and HR Consulting Firms) and around 850 Individual professionals from diverse professional backgrounds including middle and senior management professionals from Academia, World Bank, UN Agencies, Embassies, International Donor agencies, Ministries, National NGOs and in development projects.=DMN

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