The objectives of this study were to (i) assess the participation of youth in fisheries and aquaculture, including opportunities and challenges for participation, (ii) understand what WorldFish and key partners (government organizations, nongovernmental organizations [NGOs] and others) are doing in the focal countries in relation to youth participation, and (iii) provide potential areas for further research that could support improved youth participation in aquaculture, small-scale fisheries, and value chains.

The toolkit provides a starting point for community leaders to learn about changes happening now that can provide insights about future changes in the nature and structure of work and related implications for youth and young adults in their communities.

This diagnostic identifies opportunities to stimulate sustainable economic growth and development by harnessing the power of the private sector in Angola.

This diagnostic investigates whether opportunities exist for the private sector to contribute more substantially to Burkina Faso’s development.

The purpose of this diagnostic is to support Ethiopia’s transition to a private sector-driven growth model that advances the country’s development objectives and, in particular, delivers the necessary jobs. 

This diagnostic sheds light on how the private sector can more effectively contribute to advancing Kenya’s developmental goals. Applying a sectoral lens, it puts forward operational recommendations highlighting strategic entry points for diversification and growth and addresses key constraints to private sector engagement.

Country Private Sector Diagnostics (CPSDs) are jointly produced by IFC and the World Bank. They are a tool introduced to enable IFC and the World Bank to more systematically identify opportunities to help create or expand markets and private sector investment in developing countries.

The purpose of this report is to assess opportunities and constraints holding back private sector growth in Nepal. It conducts a diagnostic of the main cross-cutting constraints to private sector competitiveness and growth through data analysis, synthesis of existing research, and stakeholder consultations.

By assessing the landscape of private sector investment in the country, this diagnostic identifies specific constraints to private sector investment and productivity growth, concrete opportunities that could materialize in the short term, and the reforms that will enable this materialization.

The Global Jobs Indicators Database (JoIn) presents more than 60 of the standardized labor supply indicators which are most commonly used in country Jobs Diagnostics.The database was compiled from national surveys and subnational microdata which was first harmonized for the Bank-wide I2D2. 

In this video, three youth leaders from the Solutions for Youth Employment Youth Advisory Group were interviewed on how they are tackling youth unemployment challenges in their own countries: Federico Silva from Mozambique, Anna Bethune from  Jamaica, and Gulcan Yayla from Turkey. 

Sport for Development (S4D) camps are special events that deliver S4D activities in a condensed manner over several days or weeks. An S4D-camp is a valuable learning opportunity for children, youth and coaches. This guideline shows what to consider when planning and implementing S4D-camps. 

This is a stocktake summarizing evidence on “what works” in youth employment programs on both the supply and demand side. This paper is based on an extensive desk literature review and analyzes the major meta-analysis and literature reviews on both the labor demand side and labor supply.

This guide aims to provide general guidance to project managers and project teams on the design and implementation of integrated, cross-sectoral youth employment programs. Governments and development institutions too often implement activities and programs that target either the supply side or the demand side of the labor market without coordination or an explicit intent to create linkages that will maximize the impact of their interventions and improve job opportunities for youth.

This webinar aims to improve the mental health of vulnerable populations with high exposure to trauma and limited access to mental health services, including communities in conflict and post-conflict settings and aims to equip community mentors with facilitation skills and curriculum resources to deliver evidence-based mind-body therapy programs.

This toolkit provides systematic guidance for identifying and assessing opportunities and constraints in the tourism ecosystem, as well as identifying potential points of entry for interventions. The toolkit includes information on the tourism diagnostic process, a set of indicators and checklists for conducting secondary research.

Youth Programming Assessment Tool (YPAT) tool helps youth-serving civil society organizations reflect upon their internal programming and institutional practices and identify areas for improvement. The tool sets standards of best practice and provides concrete steps and examples for improving programming.

This is a spreadsheet-based toolkit that allows researchers and practitioners to project the size of formal and informal labor, production, and growth in almost 100 countries yearly until 2040.

This policy brief provides a framework for applying behavioral insights to youth unemployment problems, building on rigorous evidence from across the world. Unemployment and inactivity interacts interdependently with psycho-social wellbeing and competence. Solutions to structural problems can be improved by integrating behavioral solutions.

The report draws on recent household and enterprise surveys and provides regional comparisons that place the challenges in Burkina Faso in a wider context. It closes with preliminary policy recommendations for a future jobs strategy.