This policy on post-conflict employment creation, income generation and reintegration provides a UN approach built around a common set of guiding principles and programming guidelines. It underlines the necessity of coherent and comprehensive strategies for post-conflict employment promotion and reintegration, and always includes the three programming tracks below. While all three tracks promote employment, their focus is different. The tracks focus respectively on stabilization, on return and reintegration opportunities, and on long-term employment creation. While programmes in these tracks start at the same time and as early as possible, their intensity during the recovery phase generally peaks at different times:

• Track A for stabilizing income generation and emergency employment: this track of employment programmes aims to consolidate security and stability, targeting conflict-affected individuals and groups;
• Track B for local economic recovery for employment and reintegration: this track of employment programmes focuses on promoting employment opportunities at the local level, where reintegration ultimately takes place; and
• Track C for sustainable employment creation and decent work: this track involves support to policies, institutional capacity building at the national level and creating a framework for social dialogue to define the rules of the game by consensus.

The policy notes that "creating youth employment that taps into the positive energy and skills of youth is a particularly difficult challenge, as youth often find themselves trapped in a vicious cycle of violence, poverty, illiteracy and social exclusion," and provides guidance on youth employment in Annex 1. Annex 2 addresses the gender challenges of post-conflict employment and advocates for a household well-being focus in employment programs.