The tool includes training, assessment, and digital learning tools for companies to strengthen employees' soft skills. This tool focuses on a set of 10 soft skills deemed essential in the world of work‒ communication, higher-order thinking, collaboration, positive self-concept, adaptability, interdisciplinarity, resilience, entrepreneurial thinking, empathy, inclusiveness.
Early results from a randomized control trial (RCT) between Harambee, RTI International, Duke University’s DevLab, and LinkedIn show an increase in employment rates from providing a short intervention on use of the LinkedIn platform for young work-seekers.
This review synthesizes primary and secondary historical data, to summarize the state of art in agricultural entrepreneurship education programs for rural youth around the world.
This study examines whether entrepreneurial activity can be taught, in particular whether business training can lead to increasing numbers of businesses started or expanded. This question is answered by analyzing the results of business training programs that TechnoServe held in Central America during 2002–05.
This toolkit is for those who want information about how to design and implement programs to enhance the financial inclusion of women. It uses lessons drawn from past projects on improving financial inclusion, together with more general research literature, to discuss how such programs can be effectively designed, implemented and monitored.
Global Value Chain integration may be a catalyst for job creation, but its employment effects are complex and difficult to control domestically. This brief describes that policy should focus more on the productivity gains associated with value chain integration rather than its role as a source of job creation.
Career Builders Toolkit is a guide for creating, evaluating, and enhancing career counseling and youth support programs in global workforce development. The Toolkit provides empirically supported tools for program development and evaluation in collaborative career development and mental health capacity building efforts worldwide.
Promoting gender equality is an integral part of youth livelihoods programming. This toolkit is a guide to ensure that development activities have a positive impact on gender relations.
This case study presents evidence on establishing partnerships among governments and private sector actors/producers’ organizations, and how actively involving rural youth in the process, are key for dialogue and youth inclusion in the agriculture sector in national and regional initiatives.
This report explores the skill development challenges facing six South Asian economies— Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka—and considers some of the solutions available to them.
