A large number of young workers are informal: work more than 8 hours, without social security, vacations or other social benefits. More than 20.8% of young people live in poverty. In Peru, the majority of young people have only complete or incomplete secondary level education. The larger number of young men has secondary level, complete or incomplete. The majority of women have a higher technical level, compared to young men. The majority of young people -from 20 to 24 years of age-, have incomplete university education. The average number of years of study of young people of both sexes is 10.8 years. In Peru, it is not possible yet to speak about an education in human rights as such, that is to say, as a systematic process integrated to all the educational system. In the last decades, NGOs have been the entities that have developed educational proposals on human rights education, at a formal and non-formal level. In 2014 the National Plan for Education in Fundamental Rights and Duties was approved through a Supreme Decree until 2021. Ever since adolescence, the Peruvian youth faces a series of challenges that public policies in the field of education and labour insertion have not been able to solve yet. One in 6 young people aged between 15 and 29 neither studies nor works. One in 5 young people with ages between 12 and 16 does not go to school. According to ILO, over one million young people with ages between 14 and 25 are unemployed. Women between 20 and 29 dedicate 39 hours
per week to unpaid domestic activities, which is almost three times as much as men do. There are various reasons why the Peruvian young people did not get an education, among which the economic problems were prevalent (38.3%), followed by labour (21.2%).
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Youth work and youth workers Although there is a rich range of activities for young people, mostly done by civil society organisations, untilvery recently there was no official recognition for the professional status of youth workers. An initiative financed through the European Social Fund succeded in creating the curricula and the occupational standard for the profession of youth worker in Romania. Through this project, the occupational standard was developed and validated and the first accredited training programme for those interested in becoming professional youth workers was delivered. Evaluation instruments for the recognition and certification of the competences of youth workers were created and the system is now functional. Details are presented at http://www.lucratoruldetineret.ro Various accredited training centres, adult education institutions, NGO’s or NGO Resources Centres offer relevant training programmes for NGO staff and managers, including those involved in youth work. In many cases, the training programmes are free of charge as they are delivered through EU-funded projects. If it’s not free of charge, the price may vary between 120 and 300 euro. The most relevant certified training programmes for the youth NGO sector are on training,
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