The Bolivian vice president, Álvaro García Linera, has reasserted the State’s commitment to create more jobs for young people, an action that benefits the national economy.

During the signing of the convention for the National Employment Plan, García Linera pointed out that this initiative aims at “virtuously” linking youth, the private sector, and the State, to create new jobs and benefit Bolivian families.

In addition, Garcia Linera highlighted the private sector’s commitment with this initiative and with providing opportunities for young people, confirming the alliance between the private and public sector.

511 firms have already signed agreements with the government to become part of the National Employment Plan, and they have offered four thousand new jobs for young people.

According to official sources, almost 12 thousand young persons enrolled in the program, and 800 placements were made on a national level.

The National Employment Plan is group of programs that stimulates jobs’ creation by providing incentives to those institutions that promote employment among Bolivian workers.

Bolivia must urgently ratify ILO Convention 181 and enable the articulation between private and public employment services to develop active employment policies that promote skills’ training based on the labour market’s demand, and a faster and easier access to the formal labor market.