PROGRAM AIMED AT SETTLEMENT OF PROBLEM OF YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT TO BE IMPLEMENTED IN ARMENIA WITH ASSISTANCE OF UNDP

Noyan Tapan
May 11 2007

YEREVAN, MAY 11, NOYAN TAPAN. Youth Career Trail program will be
implemented in June-December in Armenia with the assistance of
UNDP. Within the framework of the program unemployed leavers of
universities will get working experience, practical knowledge and
stipend of about 100 dollars.

As UNDP Resident Representative Consuelo Vidal reported at the May
11 press conference, the goal of the program is to contribute to
settlement of problems of youth unemployment offering new approaches
of their solution. In her words, this is a program of paid practice,
within the framework of which the youth for the first time will
be given a possibility to be engaged in job corresponding to their
education. In K. Vidal’s words, though unemployment level decreases
year by year in Armenia, nevertheless, it continues to be an urgent
problem among many young people. In her words, the main reason of
unemployment of youth is lack of working experience.

Coordinator of Global Compact Armenia program Arman Valesian said
that more than 60 unemployed young people aged from 19 to 25 years can
become program’s beneficiaries. They will spend their working practice
in UN agencies, companies of private sector. In A. Valesian’s words,
it is not excluded that part of best students after the end of the
practice will be engaged at the given company.