The share of NEET youth in Moldova is high, almost one third of young people aged 15-29 years are not integrated into any form of education and training or employment. The NEET rate was stable and high during the last decade, which prove the persistence of systemic problems that fosters the high share of this category in the total of young population. The main challenges are related to structural inefficiency of the labour market - limited number of jobs and low quality jobs, low salaries, informality; skills mismatch in the labour market; regional and rural/urban discrepancies; unequal opportunities; gender gap in the access and quality of employment. Analysis of the main policy documents revealed that youth employment is stressed as a cross-cutting issue of major importance. The policy measures are mainly focused on youth skills development and addressing individual deficiencies and less on structural measures in cross-sectoral areas. Employment policy measures for young people are largely ‘individualized’ as they are seen as a disadvantaged group on the labour market and mostly ‘compensatory’ and not ‘preventive’ as these are oriented to young people already facing disadvantages. There are required preventive policy measures and focused on promoting the growth of quality youth jobs, macroeconomic and structural measures.