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.
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.
