This paper reviews the main challenges facing countries in attempting to improve labor market outcomes among young. It also discusses the design and implementation of employment interventions for youth.

The objective of this training material is to provide guidance on youth labor market data for the assessment of youth employment at a national level. Training modules address issues of data collection and analysis on youth labor supply, labor demand and conditions of work.

This toolkit provides information for businesses to create community-supported, beneficial experiences for young people. Using case studies, it guides businesses to match the company’s assets and readiness to provide youth the skills they need for employment and adulthood.

The purpose of this guide is to provide a tool for context-specific analysis of the dynamics and characteristics of employment and to identify and understand the causes behind the main constraints and challenges, as well as opportunities for increasing productive employment in an inclusive and sustainable manner.

This best practice note describes how a company worked with six communities and helped create 600 new jobs in Paraguay. The study also describes how a local partner successfully trained hundreds of youth to meet the company's needs and fill the newly created positions.

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 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 guide provides a road map and framework for developing a coherent and integrated national employment policy through policy dialogue. It can be used as a component of the capacity-building strategy for Governments and all those concerned with employment.

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. 

The toolkit was intended to strengthen the technical and operational capacity of Aga Khan Development Network partners and other stakeholders involved in the Enhancing Employability and Leadership for Youth program in northern Pakistan. Lessons from this guide apply to other contexts as well.

This guideline builds on the GTZ’s general “Results-based Monitoring – Guidelines for Technical Cooperation Projects and Programmes”. These general guidelines describe seven steps for results-based monitoring.

This brief covers the scale as well as the drivers for and barriers to youth entrepreneurship and self-employment. It also presents policy lessons from evidence on entrepreneurship activities and policy experience.

The toolkit provides an analysis of the determinants of entrepreneurship, and guidance on appropriate interventions in a context in the form of a summary output sheet for 18 context scenarios. The guide will point to those interventions which are likely to have the biggest impact in that context.  

This study examines whether entrepreneurial activity can be taught, in particular whether business training can lead to increasing numbers of businesses started or expanded. This question is answered by analyzing the results of business training programs that TechnoServe held in Central America during 2002–05.

This toolkit will help practitioners who have limited or no knowledge about impact evaluation or quantitative research methods. This guide offers an accessible introduction to the topic of monitoring and evaluation and its practical application in the youth livelihood field.

This toolkit explores cooperation between youth and the private sector by showcasing several case studies and demonstrating the economic advantage of investing in youth, in contrast to the cost of under-investment; and provide initial guidance on facilitating private sector engagement with young people, and the formation of meaningful partnerships. 

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 meant to strengthen the capacity of employers’ organizations to deal with youth employment, especially in developing and transition countries. It is aimed at industry experts worldwide who wish to take action on youth unemployment in their own regions or countries. 

This report compiles a series of case studies that each illustrates how the finance gap can be closed for young and other underserved entrepreneurs through providing non-financial support, such as training and mentoring.

This brief provides policymakers and youth-serving organizations with a framework to better diagnose short- to medium-run constraints facing unemployed youth and to design evidence-based youth employment interventions.