This toolkit aims to promote youth participation in public policy-making by providing guides and tools for ways to gain more influence and advocate for matters in the public arena, especially within issues of youth employment and skills development.

IFC has developed this toolkit that provides practical, detailed tools to help companies assess and address equality and inclusion obstacles in the workplace, across the supply chain, and in community engagement and investment. It includes easy-to-use techniques and tools to transform a broad gender strategy into a supportive working reality for women and men.

The paper analyses experiences of 25 coding boot camps and 7 digital skills programs in 22 countries with the larger objective of tackling the underrepresentation of women in technology. The objective is to share ideas from practitioners around the world that are working to address these challenges. 

This report highlights the results of the Felestineya Mini-MBA, an innovative solution to advance businesswomen’s management and strategic planning skills through training and coaching with local and international experts, and a host of Bank of Palestine employees.

This toolkit provides implementing partners with tools they can use to obtain data on women’s access and usage of mobile phones and similar devices which can be used to inform project design or create a baseline to understand the efficacy of an ICT intervention.

This working paper explores the multiple dimensions of women’s access to good quality jobs. It is the first in a series of notes on gender and jobs and will be followed by notes that delve deeper into more specific aspects of the issue. It includes a brief discussion of the gender gaps in women’s access to good quality jobs and the factors contributing to such gaps and suggests actions that governments can take to close them.

This toolkit explains to practitioners what participatory tools are available for rapid market problem diagnosis, socioeconomic, and gender targeting and how to analyze the information, and how to use the findings in designing, implementing and evaluating projects.

Promoting gender equality is an integral part of youth livelihoods programming. This toolkit is a guide to ensure that development activities have a positive impact on gender relations.

This resource guide features resources based on experience in 8 countries from 2008-2015 and is intended to help make skills training programs more inclusive of and effective for young women.

This report seeks to redress the current paucity of information on growth-oriented women entrepreneurs in the Caribbean region by drawing on various data sources to estimate their numbers and sectoral focus. 

This toolkit provides references and tools for practitioners working to prepare girls and young women for jobs usually reserved for men. It recognizes that what is traditional for women varies by culture and context and that many earn income through self-employment or entrepreneurship, rather than jobs in the formal sector.

The objective of this review is to identify good practices and lessons learned from ILO supported initiatives for improving employment outcomes for youth and women in the MENA region.

This brief provides key lessons learned from different programs working with adolescent girls in developing countries.Experience has shown that to serve adolescent girls—particularly the most vulnerable—programs should be designed to overcome gender-based constraints that prevent girls and young women from benefitting from programs in the same ways which boys do.

This toolkit is for those who want information about how to design and implement programs to enhance the financial inclusion of women. It uses lessons drawn from past projects on improving financial inclusion, together with more general research literature, to discuss how such programs can be effectively designed, implemented and monitored.

This framework offers guidance on how programs can systematically identify and challenge gender-based inequalities. Integrating gender considerations into the planning, design, implementation and measurement and promoting utilization of gender-related findings and evidence-based practices can maximize contributions to development goals, including gender equality.

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.

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.