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.

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.

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

This report examines the opportunities and challenges surrounding public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the youth employment sector. It considers a variety of private sector participation models, existing programs, public policy implications, and recommendations for program design.

This case study describes the efforts of the Youth Entrepreneurship Development (YED) program to provide effective internship opportunities for Palestinian youth including the analysis of youth and employer needs, life skills training, the practical application of knowledge and skills, and job placement support.

This toolkit is designed to help program implementers enhance the design, planning, implementation, and evaluation of life skills programming and training. The standards used in this guide have been developed by the International Youth Foundation (IYF) and its partners. 

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 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 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.

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 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.

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 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 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.

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.