Knowledge Brief

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.

This brief is part of the Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE) Knowledge Brief series, which highlights the nuts and bolts of youth employment programs and discusses ways in which youth employment programs can make strategic use of their data.

This brief highlights the challenge transport costs present towards youth getting a job and some potential solutions to overcome it. It also shares an in-depth example of a solution at work with Harambee's experience in South Africa.

This brief intends to guide employment service providers, government, businesses, and civil society agencies seeking to strengthen youth employment outcomes through impactful employment services to better design and coordinate their activities. 

This brief in intended to guide corporations, linkage service providers, and donors seeking to promote youth employment through designing or strengthening the activities of impactful linkage programs.

Using examples from the Ninaweza youth livelihoods program in Kenya, this note discusses the importance of impact evaluations, outlines proper methodology and design, talks about where such evaluations are most appropriate and gives key recommendations for their implementation.

This brief describes a parent engagement toolkit and its training model, which were effective in enhancing communication between parents and youth and supporting young people’s planning for the future.

This brief is intended to help policymakers, donors, and others interested in investing in youth see what young people prioritize for themselves and their world. The recommendations are based on a review of global youth summits, consultations, as well as national and regional youth polls.

This brief focuses on effective practices that can improve gender equality in the youth employment field and shares lessons about how practitioners can become better informed about gender considerations.