Toolkit

Developed by USAID, this guide is intended to assist policy makers and practitioners engaged in designing new in-country workforce development programs.

Developed by USAID, this guide provides practical suggestions and reference materials to improve youth livelihood development practices and to expand programming in this area.

This is a guide illustrating stakeholders to better understand core skills for employability, and teaching methodologies and training technique. It briefly describes key features of active labor market training programs for disadvantaged youth. 

The guide has been designed to support the design, administration, monitoring and evaluation of programmes targeting the disadvantaged unemployed.

The three-part toolkit is a combination of resources, questionnaires and activities to assist vocational training programs to gather information on market demand and translate it into programming that responds to a dynamic business environment and youth needs.

This guide provides a conceptual framework, instruments, and tools for designing and implementing youth assessments in developing countries. It provides instructions on how to conduct hands-on research designed to engage youth and other key stakeholders and understand their knowledge, perceptions, and experiences regarding youth development needs.

The objective of this training material is to provide guidance on youth labor market data for the assessment of youth employment at a national level. Training modules address issues of data collection and analysis on youth labor supply, labor demand and conditions of work.

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.