Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)

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.

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Global Impact Sourcing Coalition (GISC)

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.

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Empower

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.

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Barclays

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. 

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Women’s Refugee Commission; Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA)

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.

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USAID

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.

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Corporate Voices for Working Families, United Way Worldwide and Workforce Strategy Center

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.

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ILO

This working paper analyses national and supranational case law and legislation about the employment status of platform workers. It does so by referring to the ILO Employment Relationship Recommendation, 2006 (No. 198). It finds that this Recommendation provides for a valuable compass to navigate the issues that emerge from the analysis of the existing case law and legislation about platform work.

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World Bank

This World Bank initiative measures skills (cognitive, technical, and non-cognitive skills) in low and middle-income countries. It provides policy-relevant data to enable a better understanding of skill requirements (& extent of skills mismatch) in the labor market. 

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World Bank

SABER program collects comparable data on the policies and institutions of education systems around the world and benchmarks them against good practice. SABER’s aim is to give all parties with a stake in educational results a detailed, objective, up-to-date, easy-to-understand snapshot of how well their country's education system is oriented toward delivering learning. This is based on measures that can be easily compared across education systems around the world.

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GIZ

The VET Toolbox supports countries by strengthening their capacity to implement VET and labor market reforms that enhance labor market relevance and employability for all, particularly by: applying evidence-based VET and labor market programming; operationalizing private sector involvement in VET and labor market activities, and, enhancing the inclusion of vulnerable groups in VET and formal and informal labor market activities. The VET Toolbox is a multi-partner project between Enabel, LuxDev, British Council, GIZ, and AFD.

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USAID

Developed by USAID, this guide is intended to assist policy makers and practitioners engaged in designing new in-country workforce development programs.

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IREX

It provides the process, outcomes, lessons, and tools for engaging youth in labor market research to develop their skills for positive effects in their lives. It also offers insight into the value of youth-led research for diverse stakeholders, including youth, youth-serving organizations, and donors. 

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