– BENCH-MARKING QUESTIONNAIRE –
(April 2018)
Answer each question out of 10
0 = it doesn’t exist; 1 – 10 means it does exist; 1 = very ineffective; 10 = hugely successful
| Current Policies: Education |
| · Is entrepreneurship Education on the National Curriculum in every school? |
| · Are self-financing Schools Enterprises included in the curriculum? |
| · Are self-financing Schools Enterprises included as an extra-curricular activity? |
| · Is career Guidance available to all grades? |
| · Are there Connectors to Local Employers? |
| · Are 21st Century Skills (Green, digital, life, team, communications, presentation skills etc.) included in the curriculum of every school? |
| · Are dual systems of education in place – day release, work experience etc.? |
| · Do you encourage Project-based education? Sports or Creative Arts projects? |
| · Is Business plan-creation training encouraged and taught in school lessons? |
| · Do you have Vocational Training Centres (TVET programmes / LRCs)? |
| · Are there Policies in place to support youth unemployed get into work? |
| · Are there Government managed Apprenticeships, Work Experience or On-the-Job Training schemes? |
| · Is there government support for 2nd chance, older youth education in Basic Skills? |
| Current Policies: Access to Finance & Mentorship |
| · Is there a government loan guarantee scheme providing non-collateralised loans to Youth led business start-ups at low interest and on flexible terms? |
| · Are there efficient online banking services available to youth with mobile phones? |
| · Online crowd-source funding / crypto-currency lending known & accessible to youth? |
| · Secured lending: does government support / promote Equipment-leasing & stock loans to youth? |
| Networking / Support |
| · Job clubs: does government encourage / fund schools to set them up? |
| · National mentoring services: do they exist? |
| Current Policies: Government Job Creation Actions |
| FIRST – Do no Harm: |
| · Is it simple to set up and register a new company? |
| · Are there cartels, corrupt or restrictive practices, poor industrial relations, minimum wage laws, hiring/firing regulations that constrain new job creation? |
| SECOND – Increase Inward Investment: |
| · Do you have an ambitious Schedule of Public Infrastructure & Development Projects? |
| · Vision 2030 / 2050? Does your government have one? Are you happy with it? |
| · Does your government have “Open-for-Business” / enterprise-promotion campaigns? |
| THIRD – Other Government-led Initiatives? |
| · Do you have a National Youth Employment Strategy in place? |
| · Do you have national Business Plan Competitions? |
| · Do you support Non-government youth job creation organisations like Junior Achievement, Youth Business International or others? |
| · Do you have a national strategy for the economic empowerment of young women? |
| · Do you have a national strategy for the economic empowerment of young people with disabilities? |
| · Does your government do preferential procurement from youth-led start-ups? |
| · Does your government support wage subsidies, job guarantee or other ‘Employer of Last Resort’ style programmes running in your country? |
| · Global Entrepreneurship Week?? – Does your country take part every year? |
| FOURTH – Are there metrics in place to measure each intervention satisfactorily? |
| FIFTH – Is the budget provision made available for these policies adequate? |
| Private Sector Initiatives |
| · Do the government and private sector work together on Skills-matching programmes to ensure companies get recruits with the right skills? |
| · Are the Private Sector getting enough of the recruits that they need? |
| · Do you know of any effective private sector youth job creation or training initiatives and could it be replicated by government? |
| · Does the private sector have any involvement in School / Education Management? |
| Narrative Questions |
| · How would you improve the measurement of each policy or strategy? |
| · Do you feel that these measures are satisfactory? Can you suggest improvements? |
| · What other youth job creation policies / initiatives are you currently considering? |
| · What is the biggest obstacle to their effective implementation? |
| · How would you prioritise the different components of the Systems Approach? |
| · In which areas do you think there will be significant economic growth in your nation in the next 3 to 5 decades? Tourism, Creative Industries, Biz Services, FinTech, other? |
| · Are the Job Creation / Training schemes in place to create the young managers and employees who will drive these growth areas? |