World Youth Skills Day is an international observance held annually on 15th July. The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) proclaimed this day in November 2014 to highlight the importance of investing in youth skills development. World Youth Skills Day aims to raise awareness about the need to equip young people with skills for employability, entrepreneurship, and self-employment.

World Youth Skills Day History

World Youth Skills Day was created by the United Nations General Assembly on November 11, 2014, through a resolution initiated by Sri Lanka, and supported by some other countries.

World Youth Skills Day, inaugurated on July 15, 2015, aims to promote youth skills development for societal and economic contributions, emphasizing the significance of investment in this endeavor. World Youth Skills Day 2023 aims to encourage governments, employers, industries, training providers, and other stakeholders to address the global challenge of a lack of technical vocational education and training (TVET) for young people.

Theme of World Youth Skills Day 2023

The theme for World Youth Skills Day 2023 is Skilling teachers, trainers and youth for a transformative future. Emphasizes educators’ crucial role in empowering youth for work and society.

Significance of World Youth Skills Day

Enhance youth employability by fostering collaboration among governments, employers, workers, and relevant stakeholders in skill development. Youth Skill Day aims to propagate awareness about this initiative.

The significance of this day lies in the following reasons:

• The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development urges the international community to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.”
• In a changing job landscape, skills education empowers youth for decent work, fostering inclusive growth. World Youth Skills Day emphasizes this.
• Youth skills development is essential to build a strong and productive workforce, which, in turn, is key to achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• Despite growing skills among the youth, many still lack opportunities for decent jobs or entrepreneurship, both formally and informally.
• Skills development can help youth realize their full potential and secure a better future for themselves and their communities. Therefore, we need days like World Youth Skill Day to talk about the mentioned issues.

Why is World Youth Skills Day important?

In 2014, the United Nations General Assembly declared 15 July as World Youth Skills Day, to celebrate the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship.

Since then, World Youth Skills Day events have provided a unique opportunity for dialogue between young people, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions, firms, employers’ and workers’ organizations, policy makers and development partners. Participants have highlighted the ever-increasing significance of skills as the world is embarking on a transition towards a sustainable model of development.

World Youth Skills Day 2023 Quotes

• Learning a new skill is like seeing a new world, every youth should feel this experience. 
• Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this world a better place to live.
• Only a well-learned skill and tremendous enthusiasm toward that work can give birth to the best personality.
• There is no comparison among skills, as all skills are useful.

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