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 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.
