This toolkit is for those who want information about how to design and implement programs to enhance the financial inclusion of women. It uses lessons drawn from past projects on improving financial inclusion, together with more general research literature, to discuss how such programs can be effectively designed, implemented and monitored.

This toolkit offers guidance on providing internships to youth and incorporating internships into youth employability programming as well as case studies to provide context-specific illustrations of the concepts discussed.

This report summarizes emerging evidence on the formation of cognitive, behavioral and technical skills. What does this mean for Vietnam’s education and training system? This report proposes a holistic skills strategy for Vietnam which looks at today’s workforce as much as the future workforce. 
 

This report explores the skill development challenges facing six South Asian economies— Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka—and considers some of the solutions available to them.

This paper provides information on the research and evaluation of workforce development programming for youth. The paper presents a framework for guiding the interpretation of the impact that workforce development has on youth outcomes. It also provides the latest evidence of what works in achieving these outcomes, along with a discussion of gap areas in need of further investigation.

This handbook offers tools and tips for youth-serving organizations to maximize their storytelling capabilities and to empower youth as storytellers. It includes information on how to maximize investments in storytelling across diverse media channels and sample stories from around the world.

This paper aims to inform program design and improve the performance of current training programs. It emphasizes that the effectiveness of training programs for youth are higher when a "comprehensive" approach is taken and combined with supporting services.

This book discusses how current training policies and programs in developing countries need to change to improve education levels and skills development and presents new ideas about how to improve design and implementation of skills-related programs to make them more effective and relevant.

Using product case studies and economy-wide analysis, this report details the potential for significant benefits across the EU. It argues that a subset of the EU manufacturing sector could realise net materials cost savings worth up to US 630 billion per annum towards 2025—stimulating economic activity in the areas of product development, remanufacturing, and refurbishment.

The report recommends improving the coherence between national sustainability strategies and policies and TVET by developing green vocational training strategies and increasing the private sector's participation within this process. Furthermore, environmental protection, resource efficiency, and renewable energies should be anchored in curricula on the level of vocational training and continuing education, supporting the process with human resource measurements and greening TVET institutions.

This publication provides, for the first time, direct measures of informal employment inside and outside informal enterprises for 47 countries. It also presents statistics on the composition and contribution of the informal economy as well as on specific groups of urban informal workers. Non-technical language and clear, simple statistical tables will make the information easy to understand by a large and varied audience. This publication is intended to respond to the needs of different users, including researchers, statisticians, policymakers, employers’ and workers’ organizations, including organizations of informal workers.

This paper reviews the main challenges facing countries in attempting to improve labor market outcomes among young. It also discusses the design and implementation of employment interventions for youth.

The objective of this training material is to provide guidance on youth labor market data for the assessment of youth employment at a national level. Training modules address issues of data collection and analysis on youth labor supply, labor demand and conditions of work.

This toolkit provides information for businesses to create community-supported, beneficial experiences for young people. Using case studies, it guides businesses to match the company’s assets and readiness to provide youth the skills they need for employment and adulthood.

The purpose of this guide is to provide a tool for context-specific analysis of the dynamics and characteristics of employment and to identify and understand the causes behind the main constraints and challenges, as well as opportunities for increasing productive employment in an inclusive and sustainable manner.

This best practice note describes how a company worked with six communities and helped create 600 new jobs in Paraguay. The study also describes how a local partner successfully trained hundreds of youth to meet the company's needs and fill the newly created positions.

This case study describes an NGO-private sector partnership in Brazil with Walmart to train youth for the retail industry, including the challenges and benefits of such a partnership.

This framework offers guidance on how programs can systematically identify and challenge gender-based inequalities. Integrating gender considerations into the planning, design, implementation and measurement and promoting utilization of gender-related findings and evidence-based practices can maximize contributions to development goals, including gender equality.

This guide provides a road map and framework for developing a coherent and integrated national employment policy through policy dialogue. It can be used as a component of the capacity-building strategy for Governments and all those concerned with employment.

This brief focuses on effective practices that can improve gender equality in the youth employment field and shares lessons about how practitioners can become better informed about gender considerations.