The study recommends four pathways for the private sector and development actors to serve and support youth: 1) Design for the full range of youth personas and pathways; 2) Customize value chain approaches to address key youth constraints; 3) Use digital solutions to reach youth affordability and at scale, with high potential for impact; 4) Capture opportunities beyond production as enablers.
Investing in young people living in rural areas is key to enhancing agricultural productivity, boosting rural economies, and ensuring food security. This report provides examples of how to re-engage youth in agriculture. It shows how customized educational programs can provide rural youth with the skills and insights needed to engage in farming and adopt environmentally friendly production methods.
This paper focuses on how the food system can deliver jobs. It provides a framework for understanding the factors determining the number and quality of jobs in the food system, including inclusion of women and youth. It highlights a set of actions that countries can adopt, adapt, and apply to their circumstances to enhance the food system’s contribution to jobs.
Despite growing interest in this topic, however, there is no clear consensus about which soft skills are likely to produce the most significant benefit to youth and to what extent these skills are similar or different across key outcome areas. This report identifies the core soft skills that would create positive outcomes across important areas of youth’s lives, including workforce success, violence prevention, and sexual and reproductive health (SRH).
This brief outlines the steps involved in making TVET programs accessible to persons with disabilities. It examines different barriers to inclusion and how these can be overcome, building on good practice examples worldwide. It looks at how mainstream systems can benefit from alliances with workers’ and employers’ organizations, specialist agencies catering to persons with disabilities, and organizations of persons with disabilities.
This report provides practical information and lessons learned on how multinational corporations can fully include people with disabilities into the workplace. It offers six steps for companies to follow to ensure they're inclusive. The paper also explains how partnerships between businesses and NGOs are becoming more frequent as multinational companies stretch into new, middle-income markets. Together, they're collaborating to recruit, hire and retain people with disabilities successfully.
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
This report examines how public policies at national, regional, and local levels can support job creation, economic growth and social inclusion by overcoming obstacles to business start-ups and self-employment by people from disadvantaged or under-represented groups in entrepreneurship. It shows substantial potential to combat unemployment and increase labor market participation by facilitating business creation in populations such as women, youth with disabilities, the unemployed, and immigrants.
The report analyzed the disability practices and financial performance of the 140 companies participating in the Disability Equality Index (DEI) — a benchmarking tool that gives businesses an objective score on their disability inclusion policies and practices — over four years. A key finding of the report is that companies that embrace best practices for employing and supporting more persons with disabilities in the workforce have outperformed their peers.
