Mongolia’s Green Youth Forum, Zavkhan, Mongolia

A forum with the Decent Work for Youth Network of Mongolia developed green entrepreneurship and project action plans for nine aimags in the Western region of Mongolia.

A forum with the Decent Work for Youth Network of Mongolia developed green entrepreneurship and project action plans for nine aimags in the Western region of Mongolia.

One hundred forty-one participants from trade unions, employers, government (labour & welfare department, labour inspection department, social insurance department, Agency for Family, Children and Youth Development (AFCYD), Mongolian Bar Association (MBA), and Mongolia Youth Federation (MYF) worked together on a situational analysis with green entrepreneurship focus. They developed 6 problem tree analysis of the transition to the green economy for the Western region of Mongolia and 9 aimag teams developed project logframes. The aimag teams were from Gobi-Altai, Bayan-Ulgii, Uvs, Khuvsgul, Khovd, Arkhangai, Bayankhongor, Uvurkhangai and Zavkhan.

The Forum focused on increasing the capacity of staff of the network organizations working at aimag level to have better understanding of decent work and green jobs, and to develop specific action plans to promote youth rights and green jobs through green entrepreneurship. The main organizers within the network are: AFCYD, MYF, National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia (NHRCM), Young Employers Association (MONEF), MBA, General Agency for Specialized Inspection (GASI), and General Authority for Labour and Social Welfare Services Agency (GALSW).