This toolkit offers a series of guidelines and tools for institutions that want to offer career guidance services to disadvantaged youth and has been developed from learnings of the New Employment Opportunities (NEO) program in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This guide provides a methodological tool for a comprehensive analysis of the labor market and employment situation and its respective underlying causes. It derives from the logic of the integrated approach for employment promotion of the German Development Cooperation.

This brief describes a parent engagement toolkit and its training model, which were effective in enhancing communication between parents and youth and supporting young people’s planning for the future.

This report examines the policy delivery frameworks and the capacity of local actors in Ireland to put in place integrated policy responses to tackle youth unemployment. In Ireland, the Dublin and southeast regions were taken as case studies to look at the range of institutions and bodies involved in youth employment.

This note describes best practices around career guidance for young people as part of a holistic youth employment effort and is designed to serve the needs of a variety of youth-serving institutions.

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 knowledge brief presents an abbreviated set of seven promising practices for youth workforce development programs, based on the existing evidence. 

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 toolkit is designed to support initiatives aimed at raising young people's awareness of their rights at work. It provides hands-on examples of recruitment practices and workplace situations.

This toolkit is designed to help program implementers enhance the design, planning, implementation, and evaluation of life skills programming and training. The standards used in this guide have been developed by the International Youth Foundation (IYF) and its partners. 

This toolkit provides practices and suggestions for creating or improving quality youth entrepreneurship programming. The guide covers topics from program design, curriculum essentials, youth selection, financing of youth enterprises, and follow-up support services such as mentoring, as well as a section dedicated to entrepreneurship in the African context.

This case study presents findings from a youth entrepreneurship initiative in Palestine supported to enable more than 5,380 students at 54 secondary schools in the West Bank to make informed career decisions and plan their professional and academic futures.

This case study presents findings an initiative with Palestinian university students with access to comprehensive career guidance services.The study focuses on the role of private sector partnerships and work with the public sector to institutionalize a continuum of career guidance services benefiting young people.

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. 

Based and adapted from the ILO TREE methodology this manual provides practitioners with step-by-step guidance and a rapid methodology for obtaining basic information on the markets in which they want to offer vocational, livelihoods, and skills training.

Using examples from the Ninaweza youth livelihoods program in Kenya, this note discusses the importance of impact evaluations, outlines proper methodology and design, talks about where such evaluations are most appropriate and gives key recommendations for their implementation.

This study surveys active labor market programs (ALMPs) in selected countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, identifies key challenges to their effective and efficient delivery and proposes a policy framework for reforming public service provision.

This report presents findings from the Caribbean Youth Empowerment Program (CYEP) on building and strengthening consortiums in the Caribbean. It offers insights on how to build collaborative relationships that effectively support the implementation of projects and ensure the successful delivery of services to youth at risk.

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.