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.
This report reviews the main challenges to the realization of ICT-enabled inclusive development and presents cost-beneficial policy and practice recommendations for governments and development practitioners.
The report shows the need for comprehensive and inclusive policies that address the demand and supply side of the labour market, working both with employers and persons with disabilities. Promoting the labour market inclusion of persons with disabilities requires mainstream and specialized services, as well as promoting an environment that is more conducive to decent work for persons with disabilities. Incentives need to be generated for persons with disabilities, employers and institutions to promote the entry and retention of persons with disabilities in the labour market.
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.
The research reviews the entrepreneurial ecosystem to assess the capacity to foster young green entrepreneurship and address social and environmental challenges. The report considers from the perspective of key stakeholders, primarily those providing business development services and experts in the field of youth and social entrepreneurship and government representatives and entrepreneurs themselves.
This paper focuses on key sectors across 21 emerging markets that can be prioritized in post-COVID green recovery efforts. These sectors are grouped around greening existing and future energy infrastructure, building climate-smart cities, and helping speed the transition of key industries to green production practices. Concerted actions by public and private players across these areas can deliver economic recovery in the short and medium term and can deliver long-term sustainable and low-carbon growth.
This brief elaborates on national employment policies as viable entry points for policymakers in designing effective green jobs for youth. It considers relevant approaches, instruments, and examples of good practice by using different employment policy frameworks.
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.
