This report explores the skill development challenges facing six South Asian economies— Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka—and considers some of the solutions available to them.
This note showcases best practices of some GAN members to promote work readiness programs and equip young people with skills to join the workforce. Some of the common features that contribute to the success of these initiatives include a strong support from senior management, clear and measurable goals and diligent tracking of results.
This toolkit, prepared for Indonesia, is compiled based on the policy landscape of the country that provides further guidance in understanding for local companies in implementing apprenticeship program.
This guide aims to provide general guidance to project managers and project teams on the design and implementation of integrated, cross-sectoral youth employment programs. Governments and development institutions too often implement activities and programs that target either the supply side or the demand side of the labor market without coordination or an explicit intent to create linkages that will maximize the impact of their interventions and improve job opportunities for youth.
This is a stocktake summarizing evidence on “what works” in youth employment programs on both the supply and demand side. This paper is based on an extensive desk literature review and analyzes the major meta-analysis and literature reviews on both the labor demand side and labor supply.
What are Skills Trainings, and how can they boost youth employment? This brief video will help to learn about the success of skill training programs.
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 book discusses how current training policies and programs in developing countries need to change to improve education levels and skills development and presents new ideas about how to improve design and implementation of skills-related programs to make them more effective and relevant.
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 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.
