This case study presents findings from a youth entrepreneurship initiative in Palestine supported to enable more than 5,380 students at 54 secondary schools in the West Bank to make informed career decisions and plan their professional and academic futures.
This case study presents findings an initiative with Palestinian university students with access to comprehensive career guidance services.The study focuses on the role of private sector partnerships and work with the public sector to institutionalize a continuum of career guidance services benefiting young people.
This note describes best practices around career guidance for young people as part of a holistic youth employment effort and is designed to serve the needs of a variety of youth-serving institutions.
This case study describes the efforts of the Youth Entrepreneurship Development (YED) program to provide effective internship opportunities for Palestinian youth including the analysis of youth and employer needs, life skills training, the practical application of knowledge and skills, and job placement support.
This case study describes an NGO-private sector partnership in Brazil with Walmart to train youth for the retail industry, including the challenges and benefits of such a partnership.
This best practice note describes how a company worked with six communities and helped create 600 new jobs in Paraguay. The study also describes how a local partner successfully trained hundreds of youth to meet the company's needs and fill the newly created positions.
This brief describes how youth organizations can effectively create holistic programming around rural youth entrepreneurship, based on IYF’s experiences in youth agribusiness in Senegal.
This brief report assesses the key soft skills that companies seek in entry-level employees and how they are delivered in service and retail industry training programs.
This note presents findings from Jordan and describes best practices for implementing quality life skills programs, based on stories of youth, data on participants' knowledge gains, and employment outcomes.
This brief describes the relationship between soft skills and workforce outcomes: getting a job, performance on the job, wages, and entrepreneurial success.
