This study surveys active labor market programs (ALMPs) in selected countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, identifies key challenges to their effective and efficient delivery and proposes a policy framework for reforming public service provision.
This toolkit is intended to serve as a practical guide for policy-makers in middle-income countries on how to design and implement positive youth development policies for at-risk youth. It highlights 22 policies that have been effective in addressing key risk areas for young people around the world.
This resource guide features resources based on experience in 8 countries from 2008-2015 and is intended to help make skills training programs more inclusive of and effective for young women.
This paper aims to inform program design and improve the performance of current training programs. It emphasizes that the effectiveness of training programs for youth are higher when a "comprehensive" approach is taken and combined with supporting services.
This World Bank initiative measures skills (cognitive, technical, and non-cognitive skills) in low and middle-income countries. It provides policy-relevant data to enable a better understanding of skill requirements (& extent of skills mismatch) in the labor market.
The World Bank Sector Competitiveness Analysis Tools (SCAT) Reference Guide provides a step-by-step approach, to identify sectors and products with the most competitiveness potential, and then carry out public-private dialogue to analyze the gaps in a sector’s environment and come up with public, private and public-private action items.
SABER program collects comparable data on the policies and institutions of education systems around the world and benchmarks them against good practice. SABER’s aim is to give all parties with a stake in educational results a detailed, objective, up-to-date, easy-to-understand snapshot of how well their country's education system is oriented toward delivering learning. This is based on measures that can be easily compared across education systems around the world.
This policy brief provides a framework for applying behavioral insights to youth unemployment problems, building on rigorous evidence from across the world. Unemployment and inactivity interacts interdependently with psycho-social wellbeing and competence. Solutions to structural problems can be improved by integrating behavioral solutions.
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 brief provides policymakers and youth-serving organizations with a framework to better diagnose short- to medium-run constraints facing unemployed youth and to design evidence-based youth employment interventions.
