This report examines the workplace challenges and barriers facing disabled people and considers solutions to some of the key issues. It looks at the impact on disabled people where they cannot access adequate support and what works in improving their employment prospects.
This toolkit helps persons with autism find and keep employment. It provided advice, stories, best practice data, tips, and resources that can be used in the job finding process
The paper presents a qualitative case study of individuals who were all trained to be online freelancers using digital “gig” work platforms (e.g., Upwork) by “Virtualahan,” a social enterprise based in the Philippines. The findings indicate that online technology-facilitated employment has broader implications than an improved financial situation. Employment through online technology increased the informants self-confidence and how their families perceive them.
This brief provides a roadmap to design, procure, and use AI to benefit and not discriminate against qualified individuals with disabilities, including a policy framework, discussion of challenges and opportunities regarding recruiting, hiring, and provision of reasonable accommodations guiding principles.
This report connects different social and economic dimensions and looks at the key trends of the future of work from a disability perspective. It provides recommendations of action needed to shape the future of work in a more disability-inclusive way.
Digital technologies can facilitate new opportunities and create challenges for the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) sectors. This report provides a global, high-level snapshot of the digitalization of TVET and skills systems in a set of countries and international organizations.
This tool is designed as a practical step-by-step tool for national digital skills assessments. It can be used to determine the existing supply of a digitally skilled cohort at a national level, to assess skills demand from industry and other sectors, to identify skills gaps, and to develop policies to address future digital skills requirements.
This report examines the challenge facing youth seeking employment in Sub-Saharan Africa's mobile industry: the skills gap. It then explains how the mobile industry will continue to be a significant job creator for youth and unpack the role the industry will play in creating jobs and supporting youth through their employment journeys.
Through the lens of three focus areas—skills, quality of work and inclusivity—this report provides an overview of how current labour market issues apply to the circular economy transition, the opportunities that circularity presents for the labour market and the challenges that need to be overcome to achieve a future labour market that enables people and the planet to thrive.
This toolkit provides advice for young women who could become digital professionals and employers struggling to fill the job openings in their companies. The focus is on young women that are
Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEETs) – hence they face various risks, problems, and negative orientations.
