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This brief aims to serve as basic guidance on developing and designing a social entrepreneurship program to combat youth employment challenges.

This brief discusses ways in which youth employment programs can apply the social enterprise approach in their operations. It outlines where social enterprises fit in the landscape of youth employment, characteristics that make the model suitable, the types of social enterprises that can function as youth employment programs, and an example of the social enterprise approach in action from Digital Divide Data’s (DDD) impact sourcing work in Cambodia, Laos, and Kenya.

This brief is part of the Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE) Knowledge Brief series, which highlights the nuts and bolts of youth employment programs and discusses ways in which youth employment programs can make strategic use of their data.

This brief highlights the challenge transport costs present towards youth getting a job and some potential solutions to overcome it. It also shares an in-depth example of a solution at work with Harambee's experience in South Africa.

This brief intends to guide employment service providers, government, businesses, and civil society agencies seeking to strengthen youth employment outcomes through impactful employment services to better design and coordinate their activities. 

This brief in intended to guide corporations, linkage service providers, and donors seeking to promote youth employment through designing or strengthening the activities of impactful linkage programs.

The Global Jobs Indicators Database (JoIn) presents more than 60 of the standardized labor supply indicators which are most commonly used in country Jobs Diagnostics.The database was compiled from national surveys and subnational microdata which was first harmonized for the Bank-wide I2D2. 

The toolkit provides resources which are best applied ex-ante in the design of projects and their M&E systems, so that data collection can support implementation progress and reporting from the outset. The indicators and data collection forms may also be useful for related mid-term, final or impact evaluations.

The Impact Portfolio (IP) consists of 19 youth employment projects spanning 15 countries across the globe. This report provides youth employment practitioners insights into important aspects of the operations, design, and innovations of the 19 projects.

This report provides operational recommendations for the design and implementation of gender-inclusive digital jobs interventions for youth. It develops a new typology of digital jobs and draws insights from 19 case studies based on past and ongoing employment programs that connect youth with digital jobs opportunities.