Diagnostics & General Design

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

The three-part toolkit is a combination of resources, questionnaires and activities to assist vocational training programs to gather information on market demand and translate it into programming that responds to a dynamic business environment and youth needs.

This guide provides a conceptual framework, instruments, and tools for designing and implementing youth assessments in developing countries. It provides instructions on how to conduct hands-on research designed to engage youth and other key stakeholders and understand their knowledge, perceptions, and experiences regarding youth development needs.

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.

SABER program collects comparable data on the policies and institutions of education systems around the world and benchmarks them against good practice. SABER’s aim is to give all parties with a stake in educational results a detailed, objective, up-to-date, easy-to-understand snapshot of how well their country's education system is oriented toward delivering learning. This is based on measures that can be easily compared across education systems around the world.

This tool reviews the rationale and purpose for understanding the employment dynamics of local economies and describes a proven methodology for carrying out a labor market assessment by youth serving organizations to design and implement employability programs in their own unique contexts.

This toolkit presents a series of dimensions, standards and indicators of quality that enable entities that provide career guidance, training and job placement services to review their processes, assess their services and develop improvement plans that take into account identified constraints and the proposed objectives.

This toolkit provides a variety of references, resources, and tools on how to use a positive youth development (PYD) approach for evaluating youth-focused programming. A PYD approach to evaluation measures whether youth are positively engaged in and benefiting from investments and ultimately develop positive ways so that they can contribute to the development of their communities.

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 policy brief provides a framework for applying behavioral insights to youth unemployment problems, building on rigorous evidence from across the world. Unemployment and inactivity interacts interdependently with psycho-social wellbeing and competence. Solutions to structural problems can be improved by integrating behavioral solutions.