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 handbook presents a step-by-step guide for employers to host effective, mutually beneficial internships. The document includes tools by IYF & Restless Development Uganda.

This self-assessment tool is designed to help educators reflect on the extent to which they are already embedding employability skills into instruction and the opportunities for further embedding these skills.

This brief describes the relationship between soft skills and workforce outcomes: getting a job, performance on the job, wages, and entrepreneurial success.

The purpose of this paper is to frame the current issues around measuring employment and labor market outcomes in the context of workforce development programs.

This report details case studies that demonstrate how companies – who work with the public sector and educational institutions – can play a vital role in increasing the skills and employability of thousands of job market entrants and seekers.

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 is a guide for organizations to implement a Graduation program and covers the basics of the BRAC model, its evolution, the steps involved in planning and staffing up, on-the-ground implementation and strategies for monitoring, evaluation, and learning.

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 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.

This document provides instructions and guidance on processes and methods for developing private sector partnerships for workforce development programs. This document aims to facilitate rapid deployment of future workforce development programs through the use of a 3-step approach to creating private-sector partnerships – discover, design, develop.

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 brief summarizes the impact of a job search planning intervention on job search efficiency and employment among unemployed youth in South Africa. The planning intervention improved participants’ job search intensity and efficiency, leading to higher rates of employment.

This report examines the opportunities and challenges surrounding public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the youth employment sector. It considers a variety of private sector participation models, existing programs, public policy implications, and recommendations for program design.

This paper provides a comprehensive look at the way the private sector is involved in youth skills and employment in low- and middle-income countries. It considers the broad range of program types and firm types; where the private sector has been most effective at promoting young people's labor market success, and what can be done to enhance the role of the private sector to achieve this objective.

Solutions for Youth Employment was launched in October 2014 as a multi-stakeholder coalition to mobilize efforts to significantly increase the number of young people engaged in productive work by the year 2030. This inaugural report explores the state of youth employment through a three-part baseline; (1) context, (2) evidence & knowledge, and (3) inclusion. 

This brief is intended to help policymakers, donors, and others interested in investing in youth see what young people prioritize for themselves and their world. The recommendations are based on a review of global youth summits, consultations, as well as national and regional youth polls.

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 report is an example of a randomized controlled trial baseline report from 2014 in Morocco. The research explores the impact of employability, finance, and entrepreneurship training combined with job placement support to better understand young people’s transitions from school to the labor market.

This case study describes the efforts of the Youth Entrepreneurship Development (YED) program to provide effective internship opportunities for Palestinian youth including the analysis of youth and employer needs, life skills training, the practical application of knowledge and skills, and job placement support.