2016
Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE)

The S4YE 2016 Annual Report on youth migration draws attention to analyses and recommendations on the topical issue of employment dynamics of youth movement and migration. The report outlines the motivational landscape of youth migration and opportunities and constraints faced by migrating young people in terms of employment and reviews the evidence to identify promising solutions for responding to these constraints.

Global
Report
2016
International Labour Organization (ILO)

This short video explains the important role employment services play in job matching, enhancing employability, addressing skill mismatches, and linking support directly to employers and workers through operating various active labor market programs.

Global
Multimedia
2016
International Labour Organization (ILO)

What are Skills Trainings, and how can they boost youth employment? This brief video will help to learn about the success of skill training programs.

Global
Multimedia
2015
International Labour Organization (ILO)

This toolkit, prepared for Indonesia, is compiled based on the policy landscape of the country that provides further guidance in understanding for local companies in implementing apprenticeship program.

East Asia and Pacific
Toolkit
2015
International Labour Organization (ILO)

This guide gives an overview of the value chain approach, as applied by the ILO within the framework of a project in the garments and fisheries sector in Myanmar. The project applies a value chain development approach to promote inclusive economic growth and responsible business practices in both sectors.

Global
Toolkit
2015
World Bank

This resource guide features resources based on experience in 8 countries from 2008-2015 and is intended to help make skills training programs more inclusive of and effective for young women.

Global
Toolkit
2015
Restless Development

This handbook presents a step-by-step guide for employers to host effective, mutually beneficial internships. The document includes tools by IYF & Restless Development Uganda.

Africa
Toolkit
2015
American Institutes for Research & RTI International

This self-assessment tool is designed to help educators reflect on the extent to which they are already embedding employability skills into instruction and the opportunities for further embedding these skills.

Global
Toolkit
2015
Green Alliance

This study explores how a shift towards a circular economy could create jobs, particularly in areas with high unemployment and declining mid-level occupations. Analyzing different growth scenarios, the research suggests even a modest expansion could create over 200,000 jobs by 2030 in the UK, potentially lowering unemployment and mitigating skilled job losses. A more ambitious circular economy could generate even greater employment opportunities.

Europe and Central Asia
Knowledge Brief
2015
RAND CORPORATION

Mongolia's recent economic boom, driven by resource extraction, has exposed weaknesses in its labor market. To address this gap, a RAND Corporation study commissioned by the Mongolian Ministry of Labour examines key challenges and solutions. The report includes a survey focused on Mongolian youth, a crucial demographic for the workforce.

East Asia and Pacific
Report
2015
Child Trends

This brief describes the relationship between soft skills and workforce outcomes: getting a job, performance on the job, wages, and entrepreneurial success.

Global
Knowledge Brief
2015
FHI 360

The purpose of this paper is to frame the current issues around measuring employment and labor market outcomes in the context of workforce development programs.

Global
Report
2015
WBCSD Social Impact & Let's Work

This report details case studies that demonstrate how companies – who work with the public sector and educational institutions – can play a vital role in increasing the skills and employability of thousands of job market entrants and seekers.

Global
Report
2015
World Bank

This report seeks to redress the current paucity of information on growth-oriented women entrepreneurs in the Caribbean region by drawing on various data sources to estimate their numbers and sectoral focus. 

Latin America and Caribbean
Report
2015
BRAC

This toolkit is a guide for organizations to implement a Graduation program and covers the basics of the BRAC model, its evolution, the steps involved in planning and staffing up, on-the-ground implementation and strategies for monitoring, evaluation, and learning.

Global
Toolkit
2015
PWC

In this study PWC investigated 7 key sectors where the sharing economy is already substantial or has high growth potential. The report analysed the main forms it takes, some interesting examples, the trends and their impacts, with a special focus on the participants that operate in Hungary.

Europe and Central Asia
Knowledge Brief
2015
PWC

This study investigates 7 key sectors where the sharing economy is already substantial or has high growth potential and analyses the main forms it takes, some interesting examples, the trends and their impacts, with a special focus on the participants that operate in Hungary.

Global
Report
2015
Empower

This toolkit provides references and tools for practitioners working to prepare girls and young women for jobs usually reserved for men. It recognizes that what is traditional for women varies by culture and context and that many earn income through self-employment or entrepreneurship, rather than jobs in the formal sector.

Global
Toolkit
2015
Accenture

This document provides instructions and guidance on processes and methods for developing private sector partnerships for workforce development programs. This document aims to facilitate rapid deployment of future workforce development programs through the use of a 3-step approach to creating private-sector partnerships – discover, design, develop.

Global
Toolkit
2015
World Bank Group

This study focuses on online outsourcing’s potential as a new and innovative channel for socioeconomic development for developing country governments and development practitioners, particularly in terms of youth employment, services exports, and participation in the digital economy. 

Global
Report