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.

This brief highlights the challenge transport costs present towards youth getting a job and some potential solutions to overcome it. It also shares an in-depth example of a solution at work with Harambee's experience in South Africa.

IFC has developed this toolkit that provides practical, detailed tools to help companies assess and address equality and inclusion obstacles in the workplace, across the supply chain, and in community engagement and investment. It includes easy-to-use techniques and tools to transform a broad gender strategy into a supportive working reality for women and men.

This report aggregates extensive solid waste data at the national and urban levels. It estimates and projects waste generation to 2030 and 2050. Beyond the core data metrics from waste generation to disposal, the report provides information on waste management costs, revenues, and tariffs; special wastes; regulations; public communication; administrative and operational models; and the informal sector.

The paper analyses experiences of 25 coding boot camps and 7 digital skills programs in 22 countries with the larger objective of tackling the underrepresentation of women in technology. The objective is to share ideas from practitioners around the world that are working to address these challenges. 

This report explores the connection between environmental well-being and good jobs. While economic growth has increased in recent decades, so has environmental degradation through pollution and resource overuse. This unsustainable model threatens future economic activity and job security.

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.

GCYE has developed a framework for qualifying young entrepreneurs and a digital platform for demonstrating entrepreneurial capability. This framework and platform are ecosystem-based, enabling youth to showcase their potential to those whose know-how, access, and resources they need to build their ventures and advance their careers.

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.

Career Builders Toolkit is a guide for creating, evaluating, and enhancing career counseling and youth support programs in global workforce development. The Toolkit provides empirically supported tools for program development and evaluation in collaborative career development and mental health capacity building efforts worldwide.

Unilever has used artificial intelligence to screen all entry-level employees. Candidates play neuroscience-based games to measure inherent traits, then have recorded interviews analyzed by AI. The company considers the experiment a big success and will continue it indefinitely.

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 toolkit provides information on important processes and characteristics of demand-driven training models and is designed to support practitioners in assessing the market alignment of their youth training program, while also identifying where the program can be improved.