Diagnostics

This toolkit provides methodological guidance on assessing the current state of entrepreneurial ecosystems and offers a set of resources and tools that can be used by development practitioners.

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 is an example of a baseline study from Somalia to identify the status and activities promoting industry and youth employment in Somalia. Based on the analysis in the study, a series of short-term training took place for selected specific sectors. 

The purpose of this guide is to provide a tool for context-specific analysis of the dynamics and characteristics of employment and to identify and understand the causes behind the main constraints and challenges, as well as opportunities for increasing productive employment in an inclusive and sustainable manner.

This guide provides a methodological tool for a comprehensive analysis of the labor market and employment situation and its respective underlying causes. It derives from the logic of the integrated approach for employment promotion of the German Development Cooperation.

Based and adapted from the ILO TREE methodology this manual provides practitioners with step-by-step guidance and a rapid methodology for obtaining basic information on the markets in which they want to offer vocational, livelihoods, and skills training.