Knowledge Brief

This brief discusses the importance of incorporating youth voice in the design of youth employment programs and the factors organizations must consider when utilizing radio, short message service (SMS) text, and social media platforms. It also features how technology platforms have been used by S4YE’s Partners and the World Bank, to incorporate youth voice in projects. The Note highlights practical insights, challenges, and solutions that can help youth practitioners.

This brief highlights different ways in which youth employment projects in S4YE’s community of practice, the Impact Portfolio, are adapting their strategies and delivery models in response to COVID‒19. Based on recent and ongoing discussions with our partners, we see six main trends that programs are using to maintain operational and programmatic continuity.

This brief examines how the World Bank’s ‘E-Commerce for Women-Led SMEs’ project addresses the constraints faced by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) run or managed by women operating in Algeria; Djibouti, the Arab Republic of Egypt; Jordan; Lebanon; Morocco; and Tunisia. It highlights how the World Bank seeks to support women-led SMEs (WSMEs) in the Middle East North Africa region (MENA) in accessing global markets through e-commerce platforms, and the strategies used to help WSMEs access financial resources, develop capacity, and increase sales.

This brief examines how the World Bank’s ‘Gaza Emergency Cash for Work and Self-Employment Support’ project supports NGOs that are connecting unemployed youth with online work opportunities. The project will help fund skills training and digital job support to 750 youth (including 375 young women). The brief highlights challenges facing young women in the West Bank and Gaza – who experience high unemployment rates – and the strategies used to encourage their program participation and empower them to engage in e-work.

This brief examines strategies the World Bank’s ‘Digital Jobs in Nigeria’ pilot project team adopted to help vulnerable youth in conflict-affected areas to leverage employment opportunities in the digital economy. The pilot provides training for unemployed and under-employed youth in Kaduna State to pursue digital jobs, including online freelancing and digital entrepreneurship.

This brief aims for a better understanding of the intersection between climate resilience and youth employment and where it may be stronger geographically, which is necessary to generate better policy and adaptation options for the future of agriculture and young people.

This brief outlines the steps involved in making TVET programs accessible to persons with disabilities. It examines different barriers to inclusion and how these can be overcome, building on good practice examples worldwide. It looks at how mainstream systems can benefit from alliances with workers’ and employers’ organizations, specialist agencies catering to persons with disabilities, and organizations of persons with disabilities.

This brief provides a roadmap to design, procure, and use AI to benefit and not discriminate against qualified individuals with disabilities, including a policy framework, discussion of challenges and opportunities regarding recruiting, hiring, and provision of reasonable accommodations guiding principles. 

This brief elaborates on national employment policies as viable entry points for policymakers in designing effective green jobs for youth. It considers relevant approaches, instruments, and examples of good practice by using different employment policy frameworks.

RIWI introduces a leading indicator to anticipate the future of online-facilitated ‘gig’ work globally. The 43-country signal includes a broad range of young people’s experiences, including those not typically included in workforce data. They that most young adults globally do this kind of work because they view it as an opportunity, not because they have no alternatives.