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. 

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 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. 

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

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 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.