The General Secretariat for Youth was one of the incarnations of an administrative structure founded in 1982 to coordinate government policy for the younger generations, and overseen at different periods by Deputy Ministers or General Secretaries. In 2014 it was merged with the General Secretariat for Life-Long Learning. Since 2019, the latter was incorporated into the General Secretariat of Professional Education, Training and Life-Long Learning, within the Ministry of Education and Religion.