This document presents an assessment and lessons on successful local approaches to support youth into employment, education, or training from a series of case studies undertaken in 2011 and 2012 in OECD member and non-member countries.
This toolkit helps identify jobs in a value chain and the extent and nature of relationships among actors.The approach involves value chain mapping and firm-level surveys which quantify employment potential and identify possible constraints to business operations and growth.
This document provides instructions and guidance on processes and methods for developing private sector partnerships for workforce development programs. This document aims to facilitate rapid deployment of future workforce development programs through the use of a 3-step approach to creating private-sector partnerships – discover, design, develop.
This framework highlights key success factors for each of the four major phases of a workforce development program lifecycle: designing the program, equipping individuals, sustaining the program’s impact and adapting with a strategic mindset.
This paper provides information on the research and evaluation of workforce development programming for youth. The paper presents a framework for guiding the interpretation of the impact that workforce development has on youth outcomes. It also provides the latest evidence of what works in achieving these outcomes, along with a discussion of gap areas in need of further investigation.
In this report, Youth Employment Funders Group, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation identifies implementation and evaluation challenges in soft skills training and suggests directions for investment in cost-effective, scalable, and sustainable interventions and knowledge.
This toolkit is designed to help program implementers enhance the design, planning, implementation, and evaluation of life skills programming and training. The standards used in this guide have been developed by the International Youth Foundation (IYF) and its partners.
This guide gives an overview of the value chain approach, as applied by the ILO within the framework of a project in the garments and fisheries sector in Myanmar. The project applies a value chain development approach to promote inclusive economic growth and responsible business practices in both sectors.
The purpose of this guide is to provide a tool for context-specific analysis of the dynamics and characteristics of employment and to identify and understand the causes behind the main constraints and challenges, as well as opportunities for increasing productive employment in an inclusive and sustainable manner.
This guide provides a methodological tool for a comprehensive analysis of the labor market and employment situation and its respective underlying causes. It derives from the logic of the integrated approach for employment promotion of the German Development Cooperation.
