Since 2016, the Balearic Islands Employment Service (SOIB) has been developing a Dual Training Programme focused on the Blue Economy for youth eligible for the Youth Guarantee System. It aims to qualify unemployed youth (aged 16- 29) using apprenticeship contracts in collaboration with local Blue Economy companies and Vocational Education Training (VET) centres in the field of nautical maintenance, engineering, painting and maritime carpentry.

This toolkit provides a roadmap to implement programs based on the graduation approach. It targets government policymakers and social protection agencies that operate at nationwide scale and are seeking to incorporate the graduation approach into their programs.

Lifted by India, South Asia regains its growth lead but still lags on jobs. This short video by the World Bank talks about the 1.8 million young South Asians reaching working age each and pathways for their development.

Tanzania has just entered a phase of growing dependency rates that will put pressure on job creation so that the larger number of dependents do not fall into poverty. However, the new millions of jobs that will be needed in the next decade is only part of the challenge.

This brief is part of the Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE) Knowledge Brief series, which highlights the nuts and bolts of youth employment programs and discusses ways in which youth employment programs can make strategic use of their data.

This report focuses on the challenge of Mozambique’s jobs transition: how to accelerate the shift into higher value-added activities and better livelihoods. As Mozambique enters the next phase of the demographic transition, the working-age population (WAP) is growing rapidly.

Pathways to Better Jobs in IDA Countries identifies jobs-related transitions and pathways people follow to better jobs —workers increase their hours worked, become more productive, move between locations, change sectors and occupations, and shift from self- to waged employment and from less to more successful firms.

This OECD policy brief on activation policies explores profiling tools for early identification of jobseekers who need extra support, using examples from Europe and the US.

This study reviews sector concepts, strategies and approaches for reintegration. With the overview of existing instruments and methods, it aims to strengthen practical development support for countries and communities facing reintegration challenges. It argues that the successful reintegration of displaced populations forms a key element in post-conflict recovery, reconstruction and peacebuilding situations and that within the reintegration context, education and TVET are cornerstones and key sectors in rebuilding societies and sustaining peace.

This presentation from the Caribbean Forum on Population, Youth and Employment outlines the regional challenges for youth employment in the Caribbean and the case for the Blue Economy.

This strategy acts as an umbrella framework to guide the entire UN as it steps up its work with and for young people across its three pillars – peace and security, human rights, and sustainable development – in all contexts.

This toolkit is for implementers of employability programs which target youth refugees in urban and semi-urban environments. This resource can help improve understanding of the unique needs and strengths of Syrian youth refugees to design better programs serving this group.

Vast majority of poverty reduction in Bangladesh over the past decade has been the result of higher labor earnings, and positive labor market developments have been at the center of such progress. Many factors have contributed to positive developments in the labor market, changing the lives of many.

The report aims to expand policy discussions on employment from a focus on the number of jobs and unemployment to a broader attention on the quality, productivity and inclusiveness of jobs. It makes the case for a strategy with a sharper poverty lens that would focus on raising labor productivity in agriculture and informal off-farm employment to foster structural transformation. 

The report, “Democratic Republic of Congo: Jobs Diagnostic”, analyzes the main challenges—at the macro, firm, and household levels—that the country faces in creating jobs. It also outlines the main obstacles to creating more and better jobs that are more inclusive of women and youth.

The toolkit includes step-by-step modules to carry out a youth well being diagnosis and includes practical examples of common youth policies and programmes in areas of education, employment and skills, health and civic participation. 

This toolkit provides implementing partners with tools they can use to obtain data on women’s access and usage of mobile phones and similar devices which can be used to inform project design or create a baseline to understand the efficacy of an ICT intervention.

This report is part of a series that incorporates the most recent labor market information available to describe the youth labor market situation around the world. It provides an update on key youth labor market indicators and trends, focusing both on the continuing labor market instability and on structural issues in youth labor markets.

This framework highlights key success factors for each of the four major phases of a workforce development program lifecycle: designing the program, equipping individuals, sustaining the program’s impact and adapting with a strategic mindset.

This report seeks to provide an integrated analysis of the demand-side and supply-side constraints to job creation and employment in Kosovo; and highlighting salient issues like informality and skill mismatches.