In order to learn how a creative entrepreneurship can flourish in Latin America and the Caribbean, first it is necessary to know the talent that will develop the projects. Launching an Orange Future, you will not only get to know what the creative entrepreneurs in the region are like, you will also get to know their perceptions, failures, successes as well as the health of their entrepreneurships. This study will help you understand that those who take big risks achieve even higher rewards. Are you ready to be a creative entrepreneur?

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 paper presents findings on the utility of Entrepreneurial Mindset Index (EMI) - a tool to measure attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs associated with being an entrepreneur - highlighting its potential as an innovative and effective assessment tool in the entrepreneurship education landscape.

This report reviews experiences and success factors in scaling entrepreneurship programs and provides case studies of models for replication together with a scaling framework. This report provides a set of recommendations covering key approaches to scale, including Buiding strategic alliances, Harnessing digital solutions, Diversifying business models & Promoting innovation and impact.

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.

This report presents lessons learned from various models that public and private sector programs use to stimulate the growth of agro-processing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) through linkages to larger firms in developing countries.

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 video describes the Integrated Country Approach, an FAO’s youth project in Uganda that provides strategic technical support to Uganda’s government in developing youth inclusive National Policies and Strategies for Youth Employment in Agriculture. Through capacity building, the ability of youth is enhanced to advocate for themselves and to participate in productive agriculture. The videos also explains the FAO-MAAIF model of using youth as champions and role models to inspire their peers to engage in agribusiness. 
 

This knowledge brief provides policy insights on reducing search barriers for job seekers and is a synthesis of 19 randomized evaluations looking at how to improve employment outcomes for job seekers.

This report focused on the challenge of economic engagement among Brazilian youth. In the context of a fast-aging population, Brazil’s greatest economic opportunity is to increase its labor productivity, especially that of youth. This report documents important new facts about the extent of the youth economic disengagement, while at school and at work.

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 brief discusses ways in which youth employment programs can apply the social enterprise approach in their operations. It outlines where social enterprises fit in the landscape of youth employment, characteristics that make the model suitable, the types of social enterprises that can function as youth employment programs, and an example of the social enterprise approach in action from Digital Divide Data’s (DDD) impact sourcing work in Cambodia, Laos, and Kenya.

This brief aims to serve as basic guidance on developing and designing a social entrepreneurship program to combat youth employment challenges.

The book, TechnoCreative Entrepreneurships Creativity and Technology: Allies or Enemies?, is a guide that focuses on demythifying that the orange economy is not linked to new technology. In general, when we think of handicrafts, we don’t think about technology, but in reality they are more allies than enemies. We will also focus on demonstrating how creativity eliminates frontiers and permeates other more traditional sectors such as health, education and Fintech. Here you will find 50 successful cases from 11 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean that use technology as the basis for developing their products and services. Among their technological allies, you will find entrepreneurships that use Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Blockchain technology, cryptographic tokens and facial recognition, among others. To make reading easier, we have grouped these enterprises into 10 groups which correlate with the 10 most representative keywords after analyzing over 400 entrepreneurships: Culture: Data Science (AI, ML, IoT, Blockchain), Publishing, Fintech, Interactive Games, Music, New Media, Robotics, Creative Services and Wearables. For each group we have pointed out both global and regional trends, and the only enemy you will find will be the capacity to let go in order to learn something new.

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 report offers a lens through which to view and act upon this goal for urban China's future. It offers a framework that harnesses the heritage of innovative and systenic thinking in China, and applies it to a board conception of a circular economy, one that can redefine economic value generation in China's cities, and at the same time make them more liveable for their citizens.

This report offers a lens through which to view and act upon this goal for urban China’s future. It offers a framework that harnesses the heritage of innovative and systemic thinking in China, and applies it to a broad conception of a circular economy, one that can redefine economic value generation in China’s cities, and at the same time make them more liveable for their citizens. Marco Polo described the Beijing of the 13th century as “so vast, so rich and so beautiful, that no man on earth could design anything superior to it.” Indeed, China’s cities of the 21st century can now build on their heritage to realise a superior future based on circular principles.

This report summarises the digital landscape and the main digital support sources for young entrepreneurs in Latin America and the Caribbean and identifies opportunities in these markets.

This toolkit aims to promote youth participation in public policy-making by providing guides and tools for ways to gain more influence and advocate for matters in the public arena, especially within issues of youth employment and skills development.