The Impact Portfolio (IP) consists of 19 youth employment projects spanning 15 countries across the globe. This report provides youth employment practitioners insights into important aspects of the operations, design, and innovations of the 19 projects.

Jobs are central to economic development. Economies grow when more people work when jobs become more productive, and when workers move to better jobs, e.g. from low productivity farm work into jobs in the modern manufacturing or services sectors, or from remote rural areas to urban centers with greater specialization and more job opportunities.

The Jobs Diagnostic begins with a look at the jobs creation performance of the economy. It then provides an examination of the labor supply—the state of the present and future workers and entrepreneurs. Finally, this diagnostic looks at job performance of firms—the potential employers and job creators.

The report analyzes the main challenges the country faces in creating jobs at the macro, firm, and household levels. It also sets out policy recommendations to enable the country to create more and better jobs that are also more inclusive of women, youth, and other vulnerable population groups.

This paper propagates a reassessment of approaches for addressing youth employment and the youth transition in low-income countries. It outlines the economic development challenges that constrain a youth’s transition into employment, and it parses the evidence on which programs and policies appear to speed that transition. 

This toolkit explains to practitioners what participatory tools are available for rapid market problem diagnosis, socioeconomic, and gender targeting and how to analyze the information, and how to use the findings in designing, implementing and evaluating projects.

This is an example of a baseline study from Somalia to identify the status and activities promoting industry and youth employment in Somalia. Based on the analysis in the study, a series of short-term training took place for selected specific sectors. 

This toolkit presents a series of dimensions, standards and indicators of quality that enable entities that provide career guidance, training and job placement services to review their processes, assess their services and develop improvement plans that take into account identified constraints and the proposed objectives.

This note draws on a large body of recent and ongoing analyses carried out by the World Bank, the Government of Kazakhstan, and other partners. The strategy, in turn, aims to enhance the impact of the government’s policies, programs, and projects on the availability, diversity, quality, and sustainability of jobs.

This report presents an evaluation of web-based labor exchange platforms with advanced matching technology to connect candidates with opportunities, with the intent of selecting a finalist platform to be piloted in Minnesota with RealTime Talent partners. This report summarizes the traits and functionality of 11 platforms for posting jobs online, focusing on their matching capabilities, innovative approaches, and respective costs. Eight companies agreed to participate in a full interview and rubric-based evaluation, which included a function test of each live site and a guided demo from job-seeker and employer perspectives.

This toolkit provides a variety of references, resources, and tools on how to use a positive youth development (PYD) approach for evaluating youth-focused programming. A PYD approach to evaluation measures whether youth are positively engaged in and benefiting from investments and ultimately develop positive ways so that they can contribute to the development of their communities.

The S4YE 2016 Annual Report on youth migration draws attention to analyses and recommendations on the topical issue of employment dynamics of youth movement and migration. The report outlines the motivational landscape of youth migration and opportunities and constraints faced by migrating young people in terms of employment and reviews the evidence to identify promising solutions for responding to these constraints.

This self-assessment tool is designed to help educators reflect on the extent to which they are already embedding employability skills into instruction and the opportunities for further embedding these skills.

This toolkit is a guide for organizations to implement a Graduation program and covers the basics of the BRAC model, its evolution, the steps involved in planning and staffing up, on-the-ground implementation and strategies for monitoring, evaluation, and learning.

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.

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.