This document discusses youth policy in Uzbekistan towards 2030. It notes that youth currently account for 60% of the population, presenting both challenges and opportunities. It outlines several key transformations the country aims to achieve by 2030, including becoming an upper middle income country and undergoing economic, social, and spatial transformations through urbanization. It emphasizes that youth policy needs to ensure youth can benefit from and drive these changes. It proposes that youth policy should take an integrated approach, strengthen institutions of civil socialization like education and businesses, provide social lifts to demonstrate opportunities, and align with other sectoral reforms and policies around issues like employment, health, and the environment. The document concludes that UNDP is taking a systemic approach to youth policy

1. Towards 2030: Youth as the
Main Beneficiaries and
Drivers of Transformation

2. Demographic transition: Youth accounting for
60% of the population (youth bulge)
1166
1400
1602
1188
1426
1662
75-79
70-74
65-69
60-64
55-59
50-54
45-49
40-44
35-39
30-34
25-29
20-24
15-19
10-14
5-9
0-4
1990
Female
Male
1390.8
1597.2
1621.6
1379.9
1554.7
1554.2
2017
1,378
1,547
1,445
1333
1511
1434
2030
1209
1372
1260
1305
1416
1264
2050
thousand people

3. … and lots of challenges and opportunities ahead!
• Accelerated transformations of
the economy – to become an upper
middle country by 2030 by
increasing the share of
manufacturing to 20% in 2030;
• Social transformations:
information society (800,000
Facebook subscribers in Dec 2017)
and growth of the middle class
• Spatial transformations and
urbanization
9.1 9 17 22
14.1
26.4
19.4 15
28
19.5 10.5 8
48.9 45.1 52 55
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
2005 2012 2020 2030
Processing industry Mining industry
Agriculture Services
Accelerated transformation of the
economy ahead: Transformation of
GDP structure to 2030, %
Transformation of the Structure of Society
24
15
45
15
27
60
4
10
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
2010 2030
Upper class (elite)
Middle class
Middle class reserve
Lower class
21.9
23.4
33.6
36.6
41.2
40.7
51.2
50.6
50.6
78.1
16.6
66.4
63.4
58.8
59.3
48.8
49.4
49.4
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
1926
1939
1959
1970
1979
1989
2011
2016
2017
Urbanization and spatial transformation
Urban population Rural population
All these are both challenges and opportunities
How to ensure that youth employs these opportunities and be the
drivers of the transformations?

4. Youth policy: what is essential to make youth the main
beneficiaries and drivers of change? • Youth policy needs to be integrated
and coherent.
• Institutions of civil socialization -
systemic, continuous and efficient
• Traditional: Pre-school ->
School -> Army/University ->
workplace (industrialization)
• Emerging ones: mass media,
social media, spaces for civic
engagement
• Social lifts are important to show the
availability of opportunities: education,
manufacturing enterprises should act
as effective social lifts
• Youth policy is not just about youth:
pre-school education to provide more
opportunities for women, social policy
and pension system to ensure job
security, transformative social
protection and etc,
•  Youth policy is aligned and a part
of social, economic, institutional
transformations
Traditional
Pre-
school
School Army University Workplace
Emerging
ones
Mass
media
Social
media
Civic
engagement
Institutions of civil socialization
Education
Medium and
big
enterprises in
manufacturing
sector
Political
parties & civil
service
2. Institutions of civil socialization
3. Social lifts
YOUTH EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT HEALTH &
NUTRITION
OTHER
SECTORS
• Structural transformation
• Institutional reforms
• Social sustainability & Social support
1. Integrated approach

5. UNDP comes up with the systemic approach to youth policy
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Women innovators
Years
Structural
transformation
• Women empowerment
• Aid for Trade
• Investment Climate
• Business Climate
Social sustainability &
Social support
• UN Joint Programme People with disabilities
• UN Joint Programme on the Aral Sea region
• Public finance
• Human rights, Women’s rights
Institutional
reforms
• Preventing corruption
• Rule of Law
• Lawmaking, rulemaking and regulatory impact
assessment
• Public Administration Reform and Digital
Transformation

6. Thank you!