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The Buyers’ Impact Sourcing Guidance aims to guide buyer companies on their Impact Sourcing journey by offering practical guidance on how to develop, implement, and manage an Impact Sourcing program.

This toolkit focuses on workplace inclusion of adults with autism. It provides employers with guidance, recommendations, and resources for providing support and workplace accommodations to empower autistic employees throughout their employment lifecycle – from recruitment to training and career development.

This toolkit provides references and tools for practitioners working to prepare girls and young women for jobs usually reserved for men. It recognizes that what is traditional for women varies by culture and context and that many earn income through self-employment or entrepreneurship, rather than jobs in the formal sector.

This webinar aims to improve the mental health of vulnerable populations with high exposure to trauma and limited access to mental health services, including communities in conflict and post-conflict settings and aims to equip community mentors with facilitation skills and curriculum resources to deliver evidence-based mind-body therapy programs.

This knowledge brief provides policy insights on reducing search barriers for job seekers and is a synthesis of 19 randomized evaluations looking at how to improve employment outcomes for job seekers.

This database search, lists about 35 youth employment related evaluations from J-PAL affiliated professors.

Mentoring is often an essential part of the support package that organizations provide to entrepreneurs and is a vital ingredient in their success. This report explores young people's business start-ups and development and identifies successes and failures and innovative approaches used in mentoring young entrepreneurs.

This paper presents evidence that links employment promotion to conflict, fragility, and violence and reveals the peacebuilding-potential of employment promotion in overcoming fragility and conflict and the particular challenges for employment approaches in these settings. 

Rural youth development focuses on three mutually-reinforcing factors: productivity, connectivity, and agency. The IFAD 2019 Rural Development Report creates a roadmap for development strategies that incorporate a focus on rural youth. 

This report focuses on the importance of youth for rural development, constraints that they face, and how to embed rural youth policy and investments in broader rural development strategies.