This report provides operational recommendations for the design and implementation of gender-inclusive digital jobs interventions for youth. It develops a new typology of digital jobs and draws insights from 19 case studies based on past and ongoing employment programs that connect youth with digital jobs opportunities.

This toolkit provides stakeholders with guidance on developing a digital skills strategy. It is intended for policymakers, along with partners in the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and academia. 

This case study highlights success stories from Jordan in education related to scale, skills, and affordability and to reaching those who are under-served.

This toolkit helps persons with autism find and keep employment. It provided advice, stories, best practice data, tips, and resources that can be used in the job finding process

This tool addresses the question of how to improve the relevance and quality of vocational education by engaging with the private sector. It offers an overview of the topic and provides a tool for application-oriented analysis, planning, and development of its project ideas.

This toolkit is designed to support organizations implementing ICT sector projects to identify relevant barriers to women and provides suggested subsequent actions to overcome these barriers. It also provides targeted actions to capitalize on these opportunities.

This report outlines a framework for the soft skills young entrepreneurs need now and in the future to better navigate the challenges of a rapidly changing job market. This research report literature review and interviews with expert, youth-focused organizations around the world. 

Mentoring is often an essential part of the support package that organizations provide to entrepreneurs and is a vital ingredient in their success. This report explores young people's business start-ups and development and identifies successes and failures and innovative approaches used in mentoring young entrepreneurs.

This toolkit provides a roadmap to implement programs based on the graduation approach. It targets government policymakers and social protection agencies that operate at nationwide scale and are seeking to incorporate the graduation approach into their programs.

The report explores the gender-related barriers faced by young women and young men, reviews the many approaches that programs take in Africa to confront these barriers, and tries to establish whether and how these approaches have been successful.

The report analyzed the disability practices and financial performance of the 140 companies participating in the Disability Equality Index (DEI) — a benchmarking tool that gives businesses an objective score on their disability inclusion policies and practices — over four years. A key finding of the report is that companies that embrace best practices for employing and supporting more persons with disabilities in the workforce have outperformed their peers.

This report provides practical information and lessons learned on how multinational corporations can fully include people with disabilities into the workplace. It offers six steps for companies to follow to ensure they're inclusive. The paper also explains how partnerships between businesses and NGOs are becoming more frequent as multinational companies stretch into new, middle-income markets. Together, they're collaborating to recruit, hire and retain people with disabilities successfully.

This toolkit provides key steps for planning and designing a youth employment program. While the guide leads the reader through all stages involved in formulating youth employment programs, the main thrust of the guide is on monitoring, results measurement and evaluation.

This handbook shares best practices and experiences for the benefit of youth entrepreneurship practitioners, covering a range of areas: Outreach and Entrepreneur Selection, Training, Mentoring, Access to Finance, Access to Markets & Business Support and Aftercare Services.

Lifted by India, South Asia regains its growth lead but still lags on jobs. This short video by the World Bank talks about the 1.8 million young South Asians reaching working age each and pathways for their development.

Tanzania has just entered a phase of growing dependency rates that will put pressure on job creation so that the larger number of dependents do not fall into poverty. However, the new millions of jobs that will be needed in the next decade is only part of the challenge.

This toolkit helps identify jobs in a value chain and the extent and nature of relationships among actors.The approach involves value chain mapping and firm-level surveys which quantify employment potential and identify possible constraints to business operations and growth.

The report shows the need for comprehensive and inclusive policies that address the demand and supply side of the labour market, working both with employers and persons with disabilities. Promoting the labour market inclusion of persons with disabilities requires mainstream and specialized services, as well as promoting an environment that is more conducive to decent work for persons with disabilities. Incentives need to be generated for persons with disabilities, employers and institutions to promote the entry and retention of persons with disabilities in the labour market.

In order to learn how a creative entrepreneurship can flourish in Latin America and the Caribbean, first it is necessary to know the talent that will develop the projects. Launching an Orange Future, you will not only get to know what the creative entrepreneurs in the region are like, you will also get to know their perceptions, failures, successes as well as the health of their entrepreneurships. This study will help you understand that those who take big risks achieve even higher rewards. Are you ready to be a creative entrepreneur?

This brief is part of the Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE) Knowledge Brief series, which highlights the nuts and bolts of youth employment programs and discusses ways in which youth employment programs can make strategic use of their data.