The Government of Catalonia will implement its new youth employment programme, Garantia Juvenil 2014-2020 as a means to create jobs and strengthen its measures in fighting unemployment. The Executive's programme is in conjunction with the European Commission's Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), a strategy launched across Europe to address the high unemployment rate among youths. Furthermore, from the YEI’s €6bn budget, which is distributed among the European Union Member States, €241m has been made available to Catalonia through joint funding from the Generalitat and the European Social Fund.