Youth and COVID-19: Response, recovery and resilience

The OECD have released their insights in to how the current pandemic is impacting young people, read the full report below.

This survey was undertaken by 90 organisations in 48 countries and explores practical measures governments can take to design inclusive and fair recovery measures that leave no one behind.

“For young people, and especially for vulnerable youth, the COVID-19 crisis poses considerable risks in the fields of education, employment, mental health and disposable income. Moreover, while youth and future generations will shoulder much of the long-term economic and social consequences of the crisis, their well-being may be superseded by short-term economic and equity considerations”.

Key Policy Messages

To build back better for all generations, governments should consider

  • Applying a youth and intergenerational lens in crisis response and recovery measures across the public administration.
  • Updating national youth strategies in collaboration with youth stakeholders to translate political commitment into actionable programmes.
  • Partnering with national statistical offices and research institutes to gather disaggregated evidence on the impact of the crisis by age group to track inequalities and inform decision-making (in addition to other identity factors such as sex, educational and socio-economical background, and employment status).
  • Anticipating the distributional effects of rule-making and the allocation of public resources across different age cohorts by using impact assessments and creating or strengthening institutions to monitor the consequences on today’s young and future generations.
  • Promoting age diversity in public consultations and state institutions to reflect the needs and concerns of different age cohorts in decision-making.
  • Leveraging young people’s current mobilisation in mitigating the crisis through existing mechanisms, tools and platforms (e.g. the use of digital tools and data) to build resilience in societies against future shocks and disasters.
  • Aligning short-term emergency responses with investments into long-term economic, social and environmental objectives to ensure the well-being of future generations.
  • Providing targeted policies and services for the most vulnerable youth populations, including young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs); young migrants; homeless youth; and young women, adolescents and children facing increased risks of domestic violence.

Read the full report here

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