Knowledge Brief

This knowledge brief presents an abbreviated set of seven promising practices for youth workforce development programs, based on the existing evidence. 

This policy brief provides a framework for applying behavioral insights to youth unemployment problems, building on rigorous evidence from across the world. Unemployment and inactivity interacts interdependently with psycho-social wellbeing and competence. Solutions to structural problems can be improved by integrating behavioral solutions.

This brief covers the scale as well as the drivers for and barriers to youth entrepreneurship and self-employment. It also presents policy lessons from evidence on entrepreneurship activities and policy experience.

This framework highlights key success factors for each of the four major phases of a workforce development program lifecycle: designing the program, equipping individuals, sustaining the program’s impact and adapting with a strategic mindset.

This brief provides policymakers and youth-serving organizations with a framework to better diagnose short- to medium-run constraints facing unemployed youth and to design evidence-based youth employment interventions.