The Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS) is designed to provide in-depth understanding of how informal workers are affected by and respond to economic trends, urban policies and practices, value chain dynamics, and other economic and social forces.

This case study presents findings from a youth entrepreneurship initiative in Palestine supported to enable more than 5,380 students at 54 secondary schools in the West Bank to make informed career decisions and plan their professional and academic futures.

This case study presents findings an initiative with Palestinian university students with access to comprehensive career guidance services.The study focuses on the role of private sector partnerships and work with the public sector to institutionalize a continuum of career guidance services benefiting young people.

This framework aids in the mapping of existing youth technology skills training workforce development programs draws core principles, success factors, and lessons learned from a vast base of examples.

Investing in young people living in rural areas is key to enhancing agricultural productivity, boosting rural economies, and ensuring food security. This report provides examples of how to re-engage youth in agriculture. It shows how customized educational programs can provide rural youth with the skills and insights needed to engage in farming and adopt environmentally friendly production methods. 

Based and adapted from the ILO TREE methodology this manual provides practitioners with step-by-step guidance and a rapid methodology for obtaining basic information on the markets in which they want to offer vocational, livelihoods, and skills training.

Using examples from the Ninaweza youth livelihoods program in Kenya, this note discusses the importance of impact evaluations, outlines proper methodology and design, talks about where such evaluations are most appropriate and gives key recommendations for their implementation.

This study surveys active labor market programs (ALMPs) in selected countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, identifies key challenges to their effective and efficient delivery and proposes a policy framework for reforming public service provision.

This report presents findings from the Caribbean Youth Empowerment Program (CYEP) on building and strengthening consortiums in the Caribbean. It offers insights on how to build collaborative relationships that effectively support the implementation of projects and ensure the successful delivery of services to youth at risk.

In partnership with Hilton Worldwide, this report includes recommendations for the hospitality industry on ways to create career pathways for this emerging workforce while also meeting critical industry-wide hiring needs.

This is a guide illustrating stakeholders to better understand core skills for employability, and teaching methodologies and training technique. It briefly describes key features of active labor market training programs for disadvantaged youth. 

This toolkit provides methodological guidance on assessing the current state of entrepreneurial ecosystems and offers a set of resources and tools that can be used by development practitioners.

This brief report assesses the key soft skills that companies seek in entry-level employees and how they are delivered in service and retail industry training programs.

This toolkit is a resource for business oriented groups seeking to address some of the obstacles that young people face at the entry level. It is based on interviews with chambers of commerce and business associations around the world and presents case studies, approaches and components of youth programs.

This brief provides key lessons learned from different programs working with adolescent girls in developing countries.Experience has shown that to serve adolescent girls—particularly the most vulnerable—programs should be designed to overcome gender-based constraints that prevent girls and young women from benefitting from programs in the same ways which boys do.

The study focuses on practical lessons and seeks to find out what types of private sector activities are most likely to have the greatest impact on job creation, and how these activities affect different societal groups.

This document presents an assessment and lessons on successful local approaches to support youth into employment, education, or training from a series of case studies undertaken in 2011 and 2012 in OECD member and non-member countries.

This note presents findings from Jordan and describes best practices for implementing quality life skills programs, based on stories of youth, data on participants' knowledge gains, and employment outcomes.

This report maps organizations providing life skills programming in MENA to provide a landscape mapping in the region, curricula and pedagogical methods used, and effective training methods.

This report presents findings from the Caribbean Youth Empowerment Program (CYEP), specifically the program's provision of life skills and vocational training to youth in conflict with the law in Saint Lucia.