This note presents findings from Jordan and describes best practices for implementing quality life skills programs, based on stories of youth, data on participants' knowledge gains, and employment outcomes.
This brief describes the relationship between soft skills and workforce outcomes: getting a job, performance on the job, wages, and entrepreneurial success.
This is a guide illustrating stakeholders to better understand core skills for employability, and teaching methodologies and training technique. It briefly describes key features of active labor market training programs for disadvantaged youth.
This paper aims to inform program design and improve the performance of current training programs. It emphasizes that the effectiveness of training programs for youth are higher when a "comprehensive" approach is taken and combined with supporting services.
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 World Bank initiative measures skills (cognitive, technical, and non-cognitive skills) in low and middle-income countries. It provides policy-relevant data to enable a better understanding of skill requirements (& extent of skills mismatch) in the labor market.
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 helpful steps and resources to start and register an apprenticeship program, from exploring the apprenticeship model as a workforce strategy to launching a new program.
In this report, Youth Employment Funders Group, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation identifies implementation and evaluation challenges in soft skills training and suggests directions for investment in cost-effective, scalable, and sustainable interventions and knowledge.
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.
