GCYE has developed a framework for qualifying young entrepreneurs and a digital platform for demonstrating entrepreneurial capability. This framework and platform are ecosystem-based, enabling youth to showcase their potential to those whose know-how, access, and resources they need to build their ventures and advance their careers.
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.
In this video, Sara Enright, Project Director for the Global Impact Sourcing Coalition and Associate Director at Business for Social Responsibility, explains impact sourcing and how it helps the most vulnerable groups. The Global Impact Coalition is a partner of Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE).
In this video, three youth leaders from the Solutions for Youth Employment Youth Advisory Group were interviewed on how they are tackling youth unemployment challenges in their own countries: Federico Silva from Mozambique, Anna Bethune from Jamaica, and Gulcan Yayla from Turkey.
Pathways to Better Jobs in IDA Countries identifies jobs-related transitions and pathways people follow to better jobs —workers increase their hours worked, become more productive, move between locations, change sectors and occupations, and shift from self- to waged employment and from less to more successful firms.
This paper provides a comprehensive look at the way the private sector is involved in youth skills and employment in low- and middle-income countries. It considers the broad range of program types and firm types; where the private sector has been most effective at promoting young people's labor market success, and what can be done to enhance the role of the private sector to achieve this objective.
This report is part of a series that incorporates the most recent labor market information available to describe the youth labor market situation around the world. It provides an update on key youth labor market indicators and trends, focusing both on the continuing labor market instability and on structural issues in youth labor markets.
This report analyses global, regional and national pathways of rural transformation, and suggests four categories into which most countries and regions fall, each with distinct objectives for rural development strategies to promote inclusive rural transformation: to adapt, to amplify, to accelerate, and a combination of them.
The study focuses on practical lessons and seeks to find out what types of private sector activities are most likely to have the greatest impact on job creation, and how these activities affect different societal groups.
