USAID

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

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.

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 toolkit from USAID examines youth participation in violent conflict and draws out lessons for development programming. It asserts that although a large proportion of young people is not necessarily destabilizing, those who are uprooted, intolerant, jobless and have few opportunities could represent a ready pool of recruits for ethnic, religious and political extremists. 

This paper provides information on the research and evaluation of workforce development programming for youth. The paper presents a framework for guiding the interpretation of the impact that workforce development has on youth outcomes. It also provides the latest evidence of what works in achieving these outcomes, along with a discussion of gap areas in need of further investigation.

This paper propagates a reassessment of approaches for addressing youth employment and the youth transition in low-income countries. It outlines the economic development challenges that constrain a youth’s transition into employment, and it parses the evidence on which programs and policies appear to speed that transition.