This toolkit is intended to serve as a practical guide for policy-makers in middle-income countries on how to design and implement positive youth development policies for at-risk youth. It highlights 22 policies that have been effective in addressing key risk areas for young people around the world.

Developed by USAID, this guide provides practical suggestions and reference materials to improve youth livelihood development practices and to expand programming in this area.

This toolkit from USAID examines youth participation in violent conflict and draws out lessons for development programming. It asserts that although a large proportion of young people is not necessarily destabilizing, those who are uprooted, intolerant, jobless and have few opportunities could represent a ready pool of recruits for ethnic, religious and political extremists. 

The tool includes training, assessment, and digital learning tools for companies to strengthen employees' soft skills. This tool focuses on a set of  10 soft skills deemed essential in the world of work‒ communication, higher-order thinking, collaboration, positive self-concept, adaptability, interdisciplinarity, resilience, entrepreneurial thinking, empathy, inclusiveness. 

Developed by Deloitte this guide is a handbook for employers and contains recommendations that are the result of conversations, research and survey result from hundreds of employers, job seekers, and expert organizations working on the front lines to help solve long-term unemployment.

This toolkit provides helpful steps and resources to start and register an apprenticeship program, from exploring the apprenticeship model as a workforce strategy to launching a new program.

Collection of short learning modules developed by Microsoft on the core ideas and definitions needed to understand accessibility concepts. 

The Buyers’ Impact Sourcing Guidance aims to guide buyer companies on their Impact Sourcing journey by offering practical guidance on how to develop, implement, and manage an Impact Sourcing program.

Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) is a set of practices developed by USAID to help improve development effectiveness throughout the Program Cycle.

This database search, lists about 35 youth employment related evaluations from J-PAL affiliated professors.

This paper presents evidence that links employment promotion to conflict, fragility, and violence and reveals the peacebuilding-potential of employment promotion in overcoming fragility and conflict and the particular challenges for employment approaches in these settings. 

This tool reviews the rationale and purpose for understanding the employment dynamics of local economies and describes a proven methodology for carrying out a labor market assessment by youth serving organizations to design and implement employability programs in their own unique contexts.

This toolkit curates the latest USAID guidance, tools, and templates for initiating, planning, managing, and learning from evaluations in any phase of the process.

By highlighting best practices and providing lessons on data collection, the toolkit serves as a resource for learning and accountability. It has lessons from more than a dozen non-profits and social businesses on how to successfully monitor and evaluate social programs.

This toolkit focuses on workplace inclusion of adults with autism. It provides employers with guidance, recommendations, and resources for providing support and workplace accommodations to empower autistic employees throughout their employment lifecycle – from recruitment to training and career development.

The toolkit is a resource for organizations seeking to start or strengthen entrepreneurship programs for young, at-risk women. It outlines the essential components of successful entrepreneurship programs, discusses common challenges and considerations, and provides other useful tips and resources.

LifeSkills is a toolkit developed by Barclays aimed at teachers, parents and businesses to help young people build a job-hunting toolbox, identify skills and gain experience. 

The three-part toolkit is a combination of resources, questionnaires and activities to assist vocational training programs to gather information on market demand and translate it into programming that responds to a dynamic business environment and youth needs.

The Toolkit is organized to inform users how to monitor development interventions. It begins with a focus on monitoring within USAID’s Program Cycle but expands to provide more general information and best practices in the field of monitoring.

This toolkit is designed to help business leaders cultivate and maintain relationships with community organizations and to help strategically align their youth and education investments.