IFC has developed this toolkit that provides practical, detailed tools to help companies assess and address equality and inclusion obstacles in the workplace, across the supply chain, and in community engagement and investment. It includes easy-to-use techniques and tools to transform a broad gender strategy into a supportive working reality for women and men.
This review synthesizes primary and secondary historical data, to summarize the state of art in agricultural entrepreneurship education programs for rural youth around the world.
In partnership with Philippine Department of Education, the World Bank conducted a series of assessments of the Alternative Learning System ( for out-of-school youth and adults). This policy note summarizes the empirical evidence obtained from these assessments and other program data and presents policy options to increase the effectiveness of the such programs.
This study presents novel evidence from Lebanon on the impact of offering a volunteering program that consisted of inter-community volunteering activities and soft skills training on self-reported social cohesion values in the short term.
This report highlights the results of the Felestineya Mini-MBA, an innovative solution to advance businesswomen’s management and strategic planning skills through training and coaching with local and international experts, and a host of Bank of Palestine employees.
This toolkit is for those who want information about how to design and implement programs to enhance the financial inclusion of women. It uses lessons drawn from past projects on improving financial inclusion, together with more general research literature, to discuss how such programs can be effectively designed, implemented and monitored.
This report focused on the challenge of economic engagement among Brazilian youth. In the context of a fast-aging population, Brazil’s greatest economic opportunity is to increase its labor productivity, especially that of youth. This report documents important new facts about the extent of the youth economic disengagement, while at school and at work.
This study aims to identify what works, how and why to re-engage and retain out-of-school and at-risk adolescents and youth in education and explore for out-of-school adolescents and youth of secondary school age by country income group.
The objective of the report is to explore the overarching factors in the Central African Republic (CAR) that contribute to the out-of-school youth phenomenon to provide recommendations for improving existing policies and programs.
This note analyses the gender profile of youth not in employment, education, or training (NEETs) in Georgia and Armenia according to individual and household characteristics, the gender differences in the school-to-work pathways, and the characteristics or risk factors that are correlated to being NEET and their differential effect between men and women.
