Promotion of higher education, access to credit for housing and entrepreneurship, among others, are some of the programs available to youth, the most affected by unemployment.
Youth have been the population most affected by unemployment, even since before the pandemic. According to the most recent DANE figure, in Colombia almost 24% of young people are unemployed, compared to a national rate of 14.2% for the month of March. The gap between young men and women is even larger: the male unemployment rate is 18.5% compared to 31.3% for young women (almost double).
Faced with the situation, aggravated by the economic crisis derived from the pandemic, the government has announced measures to promote youth employment, as well as access to housing and credit for this population.
This has been added to support such as the VAT refund (implemented during the pandemic), existing cash transfers such as Jóvenes en Acción and subsidies for victims. According to the National Planning Department, almost 73,000 young people have benefited from the tax refund; 295,000 have done it from Jóvenes en Acción and 1.9 million from subsidies for victims.
Below we collect, with information from the Youth Council, other subsidies and programs that people between 18 and 28 years old can access in Colombia.
Generation E
Generation E is a National Government program that seeks to benefit 336,000 young people and “that aims at the social transformation and development of the country’s regions through access, permanence and graduation to higher education for young people in vulnerable conditions. economic ”, explains the Ministry.
The three components to access higher education are:
Equity: Progress in merit-based gratuity in public Higher Education.
Team: Strengthening Public Higher Education Institutions.
Excellence: Recognition of the best high school graduates.
Free tuition for young people in stratum 1, 2 and 3 in public higher education
“The National Government will allocate additional resources, which will be added to those already allocated through programs for access and permanence such as Generation E, and which will allow students who study technical, professional, technological and university programs in the 63 public HEIs throughout throughout the country, have free tuition in the second semester of 2021 ″, says the Ministry.
The objective, according to the Government, is to strengthen higher education “by teaming up with governors, mayors and institutions that have also joined in solidarity in 2020 and 2021, to provide additional enrollment aid that will mitigate the possible effects of the current situation that through the country caused by COVID-19 and that has affected young people and their families ”.
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ICT Mission 2022
It is a program that seeks to train 100,000 Colombian youth and adults in programming. “This training is for all Colombian women and men with or without previous programming knowledge and according to their profile they will be able to choose between two learning routes, route one aimed at high school students from official schools in the country and route two aimed at all Colombians over 15 years of age ”.
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Double Degree
The objective is that young high school graduates from all over the country can train in the last two years of school with the Seine and that in turn they can have two diplomas: the bachelor’s degree and a technical certificate, which recognizes the general and specific competencies necessary to continue in technology programs or enter the job market.
“This means accompanying young people in their transit through a period of important decisions, both in the training and job development scenarios, as well as in the exercise of their citizenship and interaction with the different actors of society, in a way that favors their integral development ”, affirms María Victoria Angulo, Minister of National Education.
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Young state
It seeks to facilitate young students “the transition from the learning cycle to the labor market, through incentives to carry out their professional practices in the public sector.” It is aimed at young people between the ages of 15 and 28, students of normal training programs, labor and professional technicians, technologists, undergraduate university or comprehensive training with a degree from the National Learning Service (SENA), who within their academic plans have as requirement the development of business practices for their degree. The program grants the student a monthly internship grant, equivalent to a minimum monthly salary.
Call for virtual training of SENA comunica
Training aimed at preparing people to perform trades and occupations required by the productive and social sectors. They are available for registration each year, according to the SENA academic calendar. Registrations for the second offer 2021 will take place from May 14 to 24, 2021.
Young owners
It is aimed at young people between 18 and 28 years old and has three lines of action with more favorable conditions to access mortgage credit through the National Savings Fund (FNA), with a preferential rate starting at 6.8%. “It will allow financing up to 90% of the value of the home. On the other hand, the National Government will serve as guarantor through 100% subsidized guarantees during the first 7 years for young people whose income is less than 2 minimum wages. Finally, support will be offered throughout the process, in alliance with Colombia Joven, through a personalized service channel ”, explains the Government.
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Young credit Agrarian Bank
It is a credit aimed at students in the last semester or graduates of technical, technological, agricultural careers or engineering related to agricultural or agro-industrial projects or support services.
Youth card
“The Young Colombia Card program is an initiative of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism launched in February 2011. Its objective is to encourage tourism in young people aged 14 to 28 living in Colombia. It is a free program that seeks to benefit the tourism sector and the youth population, offering multiple discounts and benefits in commercial establishments, which are promoted through the website ”, explains the Government.
Territory Crea 2021
Program that seeks to support and strengthen entrepreneurs of the arts and heritage and cultural and creative industries of 20 municipalities of the country.
The call will be open from May 5 to May 23. Learn more about registrations by clicking here.
“The program will be executed in the municipalities of Villavicencio (Meta), Villa Pinzón (Cundinamarca), Villa de Rosario and Cúcuta (North of Santander), Valledupar (Cesar), Tunja (Boyacá), Tumaco (Nariño), Riohacha (Guajira) , Popayán (Cauca), Neiva (Huila), Montería (Córdoba) La Ceja and Envigado (Antioquia), Ibagué (Tolima), Girardot (Cundinamarca), El Banco (Magdalena), Barrancabermeja and Barichara (Santander); Mompox (Bolívar) and San Andrés, all prioritized in accordance with the regionalization strategy of the offer of the Comprehensive Orange Economy Policy coordinated by the Ministry of Culture, ”says the Government.
Young Art 20×21
“ The call seeks to alleviate the serious situation that young artists are going through due to the health emergency, allowing museums to acquire their works and for them to circulate in artistic spaces that, at the same time, need to expand their collections and recover their audiences ”.
The closing date of the ReactivARTE call was extended to June 23, 2021. “A total of $ 1,976′000 will be delivered. 000 to 20 museums in the country, so that each one acquires 21 works already made, in order to benefit a total of 420 national artists ”.
