This brief intends to guide employment service providers, government, businesses, and civil society agencies seeking to strengthen youth employment outcomes through impactful employment services to better design and coordinate their activities. 

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.

S4YE collaborated with LinkedIn to use LinkedIn’s unique data base to address the question: what is the alignment, or mismatch, between the skills employers are demanding and those among the young talent supply? It focuses on four middle-income countries (Brazil, India, Indonesia and South Africa) and analyzes 390,000 entry-level postings and 6.4 million LinkedIn profiles of youth ages 21-29 to better understand top industries of employment, as well as recruitment and skills trends.

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. 

The Global Center for Youth Employment and Banyan Global have prepared this study of microwork-impact sourcing and its potential to help address the global youth unemployment challenge. The study maps current trends, opportunities, challenges, and success factors surrounding the implementation of microwork-focused impact sourcing.

This report was drafted by a working group of United Nations entities, the World Bank, and other stakeholders to suggest a common understanding of the blue economy; to highlight the importance of such an approach, particularly for small island developing states and coastal least developed countries; to identify some of the key challenges its adoption poses; and to suggest some broad next steps that are called for in order to ensure its implementation.

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.

Promoting gender equality is an integral part of youth livelihoods programming. This toolkit is a guide to ensure that development activities have a positive impact on gender relations.

In this report, Youth Employment Funders Group, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation identifies implementation and evaluation challenges in soft skills training and suggests directions for investment in cost-effective, scalable, and sustainable interventions and knowledge.

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 study provides a new lens for understanding labor market information systems (LMIS) and offers guidance for the focus and sequencing of investments in their development. 

This report explores elements and principles that are central to apprenticeship programs design and presents examples of best practices from around the world that LAC countries can use as potential instruments.

This report reviews the main challenges to the realization of ICT-enabled inclusive development and presents cost-beneficial policy and practice recommendations for governments and development practitioners.

The handbook provides youth with detailed guidelines on how to conduct entrepreneurial skills, including business relationships, marketing, and accounting skills to help them set up their businesses.

This paper presents the insights on some key issues related to youth unemployment - how can training more effectively prepare young people for work? What roles do expectations, perceptions and aspirations play in young people’s access to employment? - offered by members of the Skills to Succeed practitioner network.

Global Value Chain integration may be a catalyst for job creation, but its employment effects are complex and difficult to control domestically. This brief describes that policy should focus more on the productivity gains associated with value chain integration rather than its role as a source of job creation. 

This review synthesizes primary and secondary historical data, to summarize the state of art in agricultural entrepreneurship education programs for rural youth around the world.

The knowledge brief presents lessons from a World Bank program in Tanzania in establishing a new Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Center (AEC) that provides local companies with access to financial market connections, as well as technical assistance in areas such as production, financial management, and marketing.

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.