Official data show that in the past ten years the unemployment rate has been decreasing, but these figures do not take into account the large outflow of young people from Montenegro, who most often leave due to unemployment, said researcher of the Sociological Center of Montenegro (SOCEN) Nikoleta Đukanović.
Đukanović, at the final conference within the project "Skills for the 21st century to employment of young people in the Capital City of Podgorica", said that Podgorica is facing the problem of unemployment.
"At the same time, that municipality, as a generator of the development of the country as a whole, bears the greatest responsibility for creating and undertaking appropriate measures against unemployment," Đukanović emphasized.
She also said that young people do not have adequate social skills and competencies for the labor market, as well as that they often perform jobs for which they are overqualified or for which they do not have adequate skills.
The representative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Dženana Šćekić said that the position of young people when it comes to employment is worrisome.
"Young people in Podgorica are largely dissatisfied with unemployment," she pointed out.
As a way to overcome this problem, Šćekić mentioned the strengthening of dialogue and joint cooperation between institutions and the civil sector on all issues of importance for young people.
Uroš Bulatović from the Union of Young Entrepreneurs said that projects that focus on young people have a positive effect on improving their position.
"Through examples like this, we make small changes, a certain number of young people get skills, knowledge and get involved, and it is necessary that as many young people as possible get involved so that the eco system can feel big changes and be adapted to young people," added Bulatović.
As stated in the press release, the conclusion of the conference is that, in order to solve the long-term problem of unemployment and the outflow of young people from Montenegro, cooperation between local and national decision-makers and educational institutions is necessary, so that the educational system is compatible with the needs of the labor market.
The project was implemented as part of the RELOAD program funded by the European Union, and implemented by the United Nations Development Program in partnership with local governments, including the capital, the capital Cetinje, and the municipalities of Zeta and Danilovgrad, making up the "Central Region" cluster.
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