The Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS) is designed to provide in-depth understanding of how informal workers are affected by and respond to economic trends, urban policies and practices, value chain dynamics, and other economic and social forces.

Based and adapted from the ILO TREE methodology this manual provides practitioners with step-by-step guidance and a rapid methodology for obtaining basic information on the markets in which they want to offer vocational, livelihoods, and skills training.

This study surveys active labor market programs (ALMPs) in selected countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, identifies key challenges to their effective and efficient delivery and proposes a policy framework for reforming public service provision.

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 toolkit provides methodological guidance on assessing the current state of entrepreneurial ecosystems and offers a set of resources and tools that can be used by development practitioners.

This document presents an assessment and lessons on successful local approaches to support youth into employment, education, or training from a series of case studies undertaken in 2011 and 2012 in OECD member and non-member countries.

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 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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.