The toolkit was intended to strengthen the technical and operational capacity of Aga Khan Development Network partners and other stakeholders involved in the Enhancing Employability and Leadership for Youth program in northern Pakistan. Lessons from this guide apply to other contexts as well.

This guideline builds on the GTZ’s general “Results-based Monitoring – Guidelines for Technical Cooperation Projects and Programmes”. These general guidelines describe seven steps for results-based monitoring.

This brief covers the scale as well as the drivers for and barriers to youth entrepreneurship and self-employment. It also presents policy lessons from evidence on entrepreneurship activities and policy experience.

The importance for sustainable development is increasingly being recognized by the world, and the looking for ways to implement sustainable development has become the focus in domestic and foreign academics. As an effective means of sustainable development, circular economy has been obtained the attention of academics and government. In this study, with the system analysis of development and principle of circular economy, based on the input-output analysis tools, this paper builds an input-output analysis table and the basic evaluation model of circular economy in enterprise.

The toolkit provides an analysis of the determinants of entrepreneurship, and guidance on appropriate interventions in a context in the form of a summary output sheet for 18 context scenarios. The guide will point to those interventions which are likely to have the biggest impact in that context.  

This study examines whether entrepreneurial activity can be taught, in particular whether business training can lead to increasing numbers of businesses started or expanded. This question is answered by analyzing the results of business training programs that TechnoServe held in Central America during 2002–05.

This toolkit will help practitioners who have limited or no knowledge about impact evaluation or quantitative research methods. This guide offers an accessible introduction to the topic of monitoring and evaluation and its practical application in the youth livelihood field.

This toolkit explores cooperation between youth and the private sector by showcasing several case studies and demonstrating the economic advantage of investing in youth, in contrast to the cost of under-investment; and provide initial guidance on facilitating private sector engagement with young people, and the formation of meaningful partnerships. 

This document shows that skills development is critical to unlocking the employment potential of green growth, yet skills shortages are becoming an obstacle in realizing this potential. The report recommends that countries devise strategies based on well-informed policy decisions, social dialogue, and coordination among ministries and between employers and training providers.

This guide is meant to strengthen the capacity of employers’ organizations to deal with youth employment, especially in developing and transition countries. It is aimed at industry experts worldwide who wish to take action on youth unemployment in their own regions or countries. 

This report compiles a series of case studies that each illustrates how the finance gap can be closed for young and other underserved entrepreneurs through providing non-financial support, such as training and mentoring.

This brief provides policymakers and youth-serving organizations with a framework to better diagnose short- to medium-run constraints facing unemployed youth and to design evidence-based youth employment interventions.

This toolkit is for anyone interested in working with adolescent girls and can be used to design a program and write proposals. It can also be used to start working with girls in a targeted way or expand existing programs.

This document serves as a “how-to” guide on including women and men with disabilities into USAID’s gender assessments and analyses with background information on persons with disabilities as well as considerations specific to the issue of disability.

This guide is intended for use by countries seeking to build a sustainable tourism sector with a special focus on development programs that provide employment opportunities to youth ages 15-24.

What are search frictions? What role do they play in the analysis of markets? Why are they important? This paper answers these questions, providing context for issues related to job hunting and matching platforms.

The World Bank Sector Competitiveness Analysis Tools (SCAT) Reference Guide provides a step-by-step approach, to identify sectors and products with the most competitiveness potential, and then carry out public-private dialogue to analyze the gaps in a sector’s environment and come up with public, private and public-private action items. 

This guide provides a conceptual framework, instruments, and tools for designing and implementing youth assessments in developing countries. It provides instructions on how to conduct hands-on research designed to engage youth and other key stakeholders and understand their knowledge, perceptions, and experiences regarding youth development needs.

The guide has been designed to support the design, administration, monitoring and evaluation of programmes targeting the disadvantaged unemployed.

This booklet aims to answer the question ‘Do national and local government budgets in the Philippines make a difference to informal workers?’ The booklet uses Quezon City as the case study LGU, and it looks at home-based workers, street vendors and waste pickers as examples of common categories of informal workers.