This brief summarizes the impact of a job search planning intervention on job search efficiency and employment among unemployed youth in South Africa. The planning intervention improved participants’ job search intensity and efficiency, leading to higher rates of employment.

This report examines the opportunities and challenges surrounding public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the youth employment sector. It considers a variety of private sector participation models, existing programs, public policy implications, and recommendations for program design.

This paper provides a comprehensive look at the way the private sector is involved in youth skills and employment in low- and middle-income countries. It considers the broad range of program types and firm types; where the private sector has been most effective at promoting young people's labor market success, and what can be done to enhance the role of the private sector to achieve this objective.

Solutions for Youth Employment was launched in October 2014 as a multi-stakeholder coalition to mobilize efforts to significantly increase the number of young people engaged in productive work by the year 2030. This inaugural report explores the state of youth employment through a three-part baseline; (1) context, (2) evidence & knowledge, and (3) inclusion. 

This brief is intended to help policymakers, donors, and others interested in investing in youth see what young people prioritize for themselves and their world. The recommendations are based on a review of global youth summits, consultations, as well as national and regional youth polls.

The objective of this review is to identify good practices and lessons learned from ILO supported initiatives for improving employment outcomes for youth and women in the MENA region.

This report is an example of a randomized controlled trial baseline report from 2014 in Morocco. The research explores the impact of employability, finance, and entrepreneurship training combined with job placement support to better understand young people’s transitions from school to the labor market.

This case study describes the efforts of the Youth Entrepreneurship Development (YED) program to provide effective internship opportunities for Palestinian youth including the analysis of youth and employer needs, life skills training, the practical application of knowledge and skills, and job placement support.

This toolkit offers a series of guidelines and tools for institutions that want to offer career guidance services to disadvantaged youth and has been developed from learnings of the New Employment Opportunities (NEO) program in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This guide provides a methodological tool for a comprehensive analysis of the labor market and employment situation and its respective underlying causes. It derives from the logic of the integrated approach for employment promotion of the German Development Cooperation.

This brief describes a parent engagement toolkit and its training model, which were effective in enhancing communication between parents and youth and supporting young people’s planning for the future.

This report examines the policy delivery frameworks and the capacity of local actors in Ireland to put in place integrated policy responses to tackle youth unemployment. In Ireland, the Dublin and southeast regions were taken as case studies to look at the range of institutions and bodies involved in youth employment.

This note describes best practices around career guidance for young people as part of a holistic youth employment effort and is designed to serve the needs of a variety of youth-serving institutions.

This case study presents evidence on establishing partnerships among governments and private sector actors/producers’ organizations, and how actively involving rural youth in the process, are key for dialogue and youth inclusion in the agriculture sector in national and regional initiatives. 

This knowledge brief presents an abbreviated set of seven promising practices for youth workforce development programs, based on the existing evidence. 

This brief describes how youth organizations can effectively create holistic programming around rural youth entrepreneurship, based on IYF’s experiences in youth agribusiness in Senegal.

This toolkit is designed to support initiatives aimed at raising young people's awareness of their rights at work. It provides hands-on examples of recruitment practices and workplace situations.

This toolkit is designed to help program implementers enhance the design, planning, implementation, and evaluation of life skills programming and training. The standards used in this guide have been developed by the International Youth Foundation (IYF) and its partners. 

This toolkit provides practices and suggestions for creating or improving quality youth entrepreneurship programming. The guide covers topics from program design, curriculum essentials, youth selection, financing of youth enterprises, and follow-up support services such as mentoring, as well as a section dedicated to entrepreneurship in the African context.

The Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS) is designed to provide in-depth understanding of how informal workers are affected by and respond to economic trends, urban policies and practices, value chain dynamics, and other economic and social forces.