Youth and Covid-19: Leaving No One Behind

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Data: 15/09/2020
Orario: 15:00 - 16:30
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#MED2020 Virtual Panel

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Young people’s trust in government has halted in the MENA region: only 32% of young people expressed trust in their national government across 12 countries in 2018. In the face of socio-economic challenges, administrative corruption and inadequate public services, youth-led protests spread in numerous countries across the MENA region in 2019. The virtual panel, organised in partnership between MED and the MENA-OECD Governance Programme, will discuss how the COVID-19 crisis is affecting the future trajectories of young people and governments in the MENA region. As highlighted in the recent OECD policy paper “Youth and COVID-19: Response, Recovery and Resilience” (http://oe.cd/il/youth-covid19), the COVID-19 crisis has further exacerbated the difficulties faced by young people particularly in terms of education, employment, mental health, disposable income, and individual freedoms. At the same time, youth-led organisations have provided considerable help in mitigating the immediate impact of the crisis, also demonstrating intergenerational solidarity. The MENA region remains particularly exposed to the risks that the COVID-19 crisis is posing for young people and future generations due to pre-existing high levels of youth unemployment, high levels of youth employment in the informal sector, challenges in access to education, and large numbers of displaced young people, among others. However, this historic crisis offers governments across the MENA region the opportunity to reform their socio-economic system, governance arrangements and legal frameworks to build back better societies and economies that leave no one behind.

Welcome remarks
Paolo Magri, Executive Vice-President, ISPI

Keynote Speech
Marina Sereni, Deputy Minister, Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, Italy

Youth Roundtable
Hayder Al Shakeri, Youth Advocate, Iraq
Nidal Cherkaoui Benali, President, Local Youth Councils Network of Morocco
Joana Hammour, Grant Manager, NAHNOO, Lebanon

Intervention
Jeffrey Schlagenhauf, Deputy Secretary General, OECD

Q&A session/roundtable discussion

Closing remarks
Antonio Bernardini, Permanent Representative of Italy to the OECD and Co-chair of the MENA-OECD Governance Programme

Moderator
Chiara Lovotti, Associate Research Fellow, ISPI

The live stream of the event will be available on September 15 at 3pm CEST.

In partnership with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

[This event will be held in English only]


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