The Global Center for Youth Employment and Banyan Global have prepared this study of microwork-impact sourcing and its potential to help address the global youth unemployment challenge. The study maps current trends, opportunities, challenges, and success factors surrounding the implementation of microwork-focused impact sourcing.

This report was drafted by a working group of United Nations entities, the World Bank, and other stakeholders to suggest a common understanding of the blue economy; to highlight the importance of such an approach, particularly for small island developing states and coastal least developed countries; to identify some of the key challenges its adoption poses; and to suggest some broad next steps that are called for in order to ensure its implementation.

Global Value Chain integration may be a catalyst for job creation, but its employment effects are complex and difficult to control domestically. This brief describes that policy should focus more on the productivity gains associated with value chain integration rather than its role as a source of job creation. 

The knowledge brief presents lessons from a World Bank program in Tanzania in establishing a new Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Center (AEC) that provides local companies with access to financial market connections, as well as technical assistance in areas such as production, financial management, and marketing.

This report is the first such endeavour by the OECD to consider the ocean from an economic perspective, with a view to exploring what the Organisation’s future contribution might be in supporting national and international efforts towards a more sustainable development of the ocean economy in the future.

This guide gives an overview of the value chain approach, as applied by the ILO within the framework of a project in the garments and fisheries sector in Myanmar. The project applies a value chain development approach to promote inclusive economic growth and responsible business practices in both sectors.

This study investigates 7 key sectors where the sharing economy is already substantial or has high growth potential and analyses the main forms it takes, some interesting examples, the trends and their impacts, with a special focus on the participants that operate in Hungary.

This study focuses on online outsourcing’s potential as a new and innovative channel for socioeconomic development for developing country governments and development practitioners, particularly in terms of youth employment, services exports, and participation in the digital economy. 

This case study presents evidence on establishing partnerships among governments and private sector actors/producers’ organizations, and how actively involving rural youth in the process, are key for dialogue and youth inclusion in the agriculture sector in national and regional initiatives. 

This brief describes how youth organizations can effectively create holistic programming around rural youth entrepreneurship, based on IYF’s experiences in youth agribusiness in Senegal.

This framework aids in the mapping of existing youth technology skills training workforce development programs draws core principles, success factors, and lessons learned from a vast base of examples.

Investing in young people living in rural areas is key to enhancing agricultural productivity, boosting rural economies, and ensuring food security. This report provides examples of how to re-engage youth in agriculture. It shows how customized educational programs can provide rural youth with the skills and insights needed to engage in farming and adopt environmentally friendly production methods. 

In partnership with Hilton Worldwide, this report includes recommendations for the hospitality industry on ways to create career pathways for this emerging workforce while also meeting critical industry-wide hiring needs.

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.

Using product case studies and economy-wide analysis, this report details the potential for significant benefits across the EU. It argues that a subset of the EU manufacturing sector could realise net materials cost savings worth up to US 630 billion per annum towards 2025—stimulating economic activity in the areas of product development, remanufacturing, and refurbishment.

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 case study describes an NGO-private sector partnership in Brazil with Walmart to train youth for the retail industry, including the challenges and benefits of such a partnership.

This document shows that skills development is critical to unlocking the employment potential of green growth, yet skills shortages are becoming an obstacle in realizing this potential. The report recommends that countries devise strategies based on well-informed policy decisions, social dialogue, and coordination among ministries and between employers and training providers.

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.

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.