General Program & Policy Design

Developed by USAID, this guide is intended to assist policy makers and practitioners engaged in designing new in-country workforce development programs.

Developed by USAID, this guide provides practical suggestions and reference materials to improve youth livelihood development practices and to expand programming in this area.

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. 

The guide has been designed to support the design, administration, monitoring and evaluation of programmes targeting the disadvantaged unemployed.

This knowledge brief presents an abbreviated set of seven promising practices for youth workforce development programs, based on the existing evidence. 

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 a variety of references, resources, and tools on how to use a positive youth development (PYD) approach for evaluating youth-focused programming. A PYD approach to evaluation measures whether youth are positively engaged in and benefiting from investments and ultimately develop positive ways so that they can contribute to the development of their communities.

This self-assessment tool is designed to help educators reflect on the extent to which they are already embedding employability skills into instruction and the opportunities for further embedding these skills.

This policy brief provides a framework for applying behavioral insights to youth unemployment problems, building on rigorous evidence from across the world. Unemployment and inactivity interacts interdependently with psycho-social wellbeing and competence. Solutions to structural problems can be improved by integrating behavioral solutions.

The toolkit includes step-by-step modules to carry out a youth well being diagnosis and includes practical examples of common youth policies and programmes in areas of education, employment and skills, health and civic participation.