The agency and resilience of NEET youth and what we can do to support them. Evidence from a synthesis of qualitative research with young people in South Africa

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dc.contributor.author Baldry, Kim
dc.contributor.author Graham, Lauren
dc.contributor.author De Lannoy, Ariane
dc.date.accessioned 2019-12-04T14:24:47Z
dc.date.available 2019-12-04T14:24:47Z
dc.date.issued 2019-12
dc.identifier.citation Baldry, K., Graham, L., & De Lannoy, A. (2019) The agency and resilience of NEET youth and what we can do to support them. Evidence from a synthesis of qualitative research with young people in South Africa. Cape Town: SALDRU, University of Cape Town & Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg.(SALDRU Working Paper No. 253).
dc.identifier.isbn 978-1-928516-14-9
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/11090/968
dc.description This working paper is one in a series of reports and working papers by the project “Towards a Basic Package of Support for Young People who are not Employed, in Education or Training (NEET) in South Africa”. The BPS project, which commenced in November 2018 and runs until March 2020, explores the feasibility and design of a South African intervention to provide more comprehensive support to young people, aged 15 – 24 years, who are NEET. Based on research and consultations, the project has put forward a detailed proposal for a programmatic intervention that can provide well-targeted, individualised and long-term support to young people in South Africa, while building a local community of practice to support both youth and the services and opportunities that exist for them. The proposal carefully sets out the various building blocks of such an intervention, founded in a review of best practices. It concludes with a proposal for a pilot that can be implemented at the local level across different South African municipalities. It also proposes an approach to develop an overarching, national institutional framework that can both ensure sufficient resource allocation and safeguard the quality, integrity and coherence of the intervention when rolled out at scale. The project builds on earlier work, led by the Poverty & Inequality Initiative and the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), both at the University of Cape Town, in partnership with a coalition of partners in government, academia and civil society, to conceptualise a more comprehensive approach to support South Africa’s youth. The 2018 – 2020 phase is led by SALDRU and conducted in partnership with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) Africa; the Centre for Social Development in Africa (CSDA), University of Johannesburg; DG Murray Trust; and The Jobs Fund. The work was funded and provided with technical support by the Capacity Building Programme for Employment Promotion (CBPEP), funded by the European Union and based in the Government Technical Advisory Centre (GTAC) in the National Treasury. Baldry, K., Graham, L., & De Lannoy, A. (2019) The agency and resilience of NEET youth and what we can do to support them. Evidence from a synthesis of qualitative research with young people in South Africa. Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Working Paper No. 253. Cape Town: SALDRU, University of Cape Town & Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg. This study is co-funded by the European Union Programme under the Capacity Building for Employment Promotion based in the National Treasury’s Government Technical Advisory Centre Programme. Its contents are the sole responsibility of Kim Baldry, Lauren Graham and Ariane De Lannoy and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union. For more information: Email: Ariane.delannoy@uct.ac.za Web: www.saldru.uct.ac.za/project/youth/a-youth-guarantee-for-south-africa/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/LeaveNoSAYouthBehind/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SAYouthSupport en_US
dc.description.abstract Recent years have seen a growing body of knowledge on the situation of young people, and particularly young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) in South Africa. Much of this research is focused on statistical analysis and emphasises the staggered and difficult transitions that young people make as they attempt to secure employment. This paper contributes by synthesising the findings of several qualitative studies in order to add the voice of young people to the picture. It illustrates the immense challenges that young people face, ranging from a sense of social exclusion and the implications this has for relationships, belonging and mental health; the consistent barriers to work-seeking such as lack of information and high costs; as well as their struggles to access higher or further education. While there are a range of initiatives attempting to address youth unemployment, this paper offers insight into how young people experience navigating these initiatives. We also draw lessons from young people themselves, about what kind of support they require. This working paper has contributed to the evidence that informs the development of the Basic Package of Support for NEET youth in South Africa. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship This study is co-funded by the European Union Programme under the Capacity Building for Employment Promotion based in the National Treasury’s Government Technical Advisory Centre Programme. Its contents are the sole responsibility of Kim Baldry, Lauren Graham and Ariane De Lannoy and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Saldru Working Paper;253
dc.subject NEET youth en_US
dc.subject youth voice en_US
dc.subject qualitative en_US
dc.subject youth development en_US
dc.title The agency and resilience of NEET youth and what we can do to support them. Evidence from a synthesis of qualitative research with young people in South Africa en_US
dc.type Working Paper en_US


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