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10 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE - INSIGHT VIEW<br />
Number of young people in Montenegro<br />
2006<br />
2015<br />
-9,270<br />
135,787 126,517<br />
Youth unemployment<br />
30.5%<br />
2008.<br />
+7.1%<br />
Evaluation of NPAM 4 , that was published in March 2015,<br />
stated that NPAM, as the strategic document, had very limited<br />
impact in terms of prioritization and raising of youth issues<br />
in the focus of other resources. What especially<br />
concerns is the fact that the Youth Council, established by<br />
the Government of Montenegro, stated in its internal evaluation<br />
5 that “because of lack of planning and estimation<br />
of real capacities of institutions that implement NPAM after<br />
its adoption, occurred vacuum and discontinuity in its implementation,<br />
or lack of mechanisms for overcoming of<br />
new obstacles.“<br />
Not any document that is concretely related to youth policy<br />
has been adopted from 2011 until 2016, at the national level.<br />
At the end of 2015, the Working Group for Development of<br />
New National Strategy for Youth was established, and adoption<br />
of the strategy is expected at the end of the year.<br />
Towards good quality of implementation of youth policy<br />
at the local level, NPAM required fast localization or development<br />
of local plans for youth action. International<br />
organizations recommend that except national, proactive<br />
youth policies should be developed at the local<br />
level. It was envisaged that local youth policies should<br />
respect recommendations of NPAM, but also specificities<br />
of the concrete community and needs of its youth.<br />
What especially concerns is the lack of legal regulations at<br />
37.6%<br />
the national level. The process of creating the Law on Youth<br />
started in 2012, when the Working group was established<br />
for development of a law, whose final draft passed public<br />
2015.<br />
consultations until the end of 2014, when its adoption was<br />
planned. However, circumstances the public did not know<br />
lead to a situation where today, four years later, the same<br />
one is considered under parliamentary procedure at the<br />
Source: Monstat<br />
Board for Education, Science, Culture, and Sport, and its<br />
adoption at the Parliament of Montenegro, proposed by this<br />
board, is still postponed.<br />
4<br />
Civic Alliance (2015), Consultations with youth and evaluation of the National Youth Action Plan<br />
5<br />
Youth Council Montenegro (2011), Internal evaluation of work, Podgorica; consultations with youth and evaluation of NPAM<br />
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