This report presents findings from the Caribbean Youth Empowerment Program (CYEP) on building and strengthening consortiums in the Caribbean. It offers insights on how to build collaborative relationships that effectively support the implementation of projects and ensure the successful delivery of services to youth at risk.
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 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 brief report assesses the key soft skills that companies seek in entry-level employees and how they are delivered in service and retail industry training programs.
In partnership with Hilton Worldwide, this report includes recommendations for the hospitality industry on ways to create career pathways for this emerging workforce while also meeting critical industry-wide hiring needs.
The World Bank Sector Competitiveness Analysis Tools (SCAT) Reference Guide provides a step-by-step approach, to identify sectors and products with the most competitiveness potential, and then carry out public-private dialogue to analyze the gaps in a sector’s environment and come up with public, private and public-private action items.
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 tool addresses the question of how to improve the relevance and quality of vocational education by engaging with the private sector. It offers an overview of the topic and provides a tool for application-oriented analysis, planning, and development of its project ideas.
