This paper offers practical and relevant insights, including case studies capturing the journey of setting up private sector initiatives with refugee populations. It looks at their progress to date and key takeaways.
This handbook is written for the operational managers in agribusiness companies responsible for integrating smallholder farmers into value chains as suppliers, clients, or customers.
This report presents lessons learned from various models that public and private sector programs use to stimulate the growth of agro-processing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) through linkages to larger firms in developing countries.
This guide provides evidence-based operational principles for teams working on women’s entrepreneurship, including resources to build the business case for supporting women-owned businesses and start-ups; to develop a framework for support programs for women-owned businesses, and to share insights from case studies and results.
This toolkit provides systematic guidance for identifying and assessing opportunities and constraints in the tourism ecosystem, as well as identifying potential points of entry for interventions. The toolkit includes information on the tourism diagnostic process, a set of indicators and checklists for conducting secondary research.
Doing Business 2019 is the 16th in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulation and the protection of property rights that are comparable across 190 economies.
To gain new insight into how women’s employment and entrepreneurship choices are affected by legal gender discrimination, this study examines ten years of Women, Business and the Law data through an index structured around the economic decisions women make as they go through different stages of their working lives.
This report examines the opportunities and challenges surrounding public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the youth employment sector. It considers a variety of private sector participation models, existing programs, public policy implications, and recommendations for program design.
Solutions for Youth Employment was launched in October 2014 as a multi-stakeholder coalition to mobilize efforts to significantly increase the number of young people engaged in productive work by the year 2030. This inaugural report explores the state of youth employment through a three-part baseline; (1) context, (2) evidence & knowledge, and (3) inclusion.
The S4YE 2016 Annual Report on youth migration draws attention to analyses and recommendations on the topical issue of employment dynamics of youth movement and migration. The report outlines the motivational landscape of youth migration and opportunities and constraints faced by migrating young people in terms of employment and reviews the evidence to identify promising solutions for responding to these constraints.
