This paper provides a comprehensive look at the way the private sector is involved in youth skills and employment in low- and middle-income countries. It considers the broad range of program types and firm types; where the private sector has been most effective at promoting young people's labor market success, and what can be done to enhance the role of the private sector to achieve this objective.
Lifted by India, South Asia regains its growth lead but still lags on jobs. This short video by the World Bank talks about the 1.8 million young South Asians reaching working age each and pathways for their development.
The toolkit was intended to strengthen the technical and operational capacity of Aga Khan Development Network partners and other stakeholders involved in the Enhancing Employability and Leadership for Youth program in northern Pakistan. Lessons from this guide apply to other contexts as well.
This webinar aims to improve the mental health of vulnerable populations with high exposure to trauma and limited access to mental health services, including communities in conflict and post-conflict settings and aims to equip community mentors with facilitation skills and curriculum resources to deliver evidence-based mind-body therapy programs.
This report examines the policy delivery frameworks and the capacity of local actors in Ireland to put in place integrated policy responses to tackle youth unemployment. In Ireland, the Dublin and southeast regions were taken as case studies to look at the range of institutions and bodies involved in youth employment.
This brief is part of the Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE) Knowledge Brief series, which highlights the nuts and bolts of youth employment programs and discusses ways in which youth employment programs can make strategic use of their data.
The Impact Portfolio (IP) consists of 19 youth employment projects spanning 15 countries across the globe. This report provides youth employment practitioners insights into important aspects of the operations, design, and innovations of the 19 projects.
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.
This toolkit provides implementing partners with tools they can use to obtain data on women’s access and usage of mobile phones and similar devices which can be used to inform project design or create a baseline to understand the efficacy of an ICT intervention.
