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.
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.
This working paper explores the multiple dimensions of women’s access to good quality jobs. It is the first in a series of notes on gender and jobs and will be followed by notes that delve deeper into more specific aspects of the issue. It includes a brief discussion of the gender gaps in women’s access to good quality jobs and the factors contributing to such gaps and suggests actions that governments can take to close them.
This paper systematically reviews and summarizes 40 rigorous evaluations of SME support services in low and middle-income countries and presents evidence to help inform policy debates.
This brief provides key lessons learned from different programs working with adolescent girls in developing countries.Experience has shown that to serve adolescent girls—particularly the most vulnerable—programs should be designed to overcome gender-based constraints that prevent girls and young women from benefitting from programs in the same ways which boys do.
Lifted by India, South Asia regains its growth lead but still lags on jobs. This short video by the World Bank talks about the 1.8 million young South Asians reaching working age each and pathways for their development.
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.
