This report maps organizations providing life skills programming in MENA to provide a landscape mapping in the region, curricula and pedagogical methods used, and effective training methods.
This paper aims to inform program design and improve the performance of current training programs. It emphasizes that the effectiveness of training programs for youth are higher when a "comprehensive" approach is taken and combined with supporting services.
This report is an example of a randomized controlled trial baseline report from 2014 in Morocco. The research explores the impact of employability, finance, and entrepreneurship training combined with job placement support to better understand young people’s transitions from school to the labor market.
This is an example of a baseline study from Somalia to identify the status and activities promoting industry and youth employment in Somalia. Based on the analysis in the study, a series of short-term training took place for selected specific sectors.
This document presents an assessment and lessons on successful local approaches to support youth into employment, education, or training from a series of case studies undertaken in 2011 and 2012 in OECD member and non-member countries.
This paper provides information on the research and evaluation of workforce development programming for youth. The paper presents a framework for guiding the interpretation of the impact that workforce development has on youth outcomes. It also provides the latest evidence of what works in achieving these outcomes, along with a discussion of gap areas in need of further investigation.
In this report, Youth Employment Funders Group, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation identifies implementation and evaluation challenges in soft skills training and suggests directions for investment in cost-effective, scalable, and sustainable interventions and knowledge.
This paper propagates a reassessment of approaches for addressing youth employment and the youth transition in low-income countries. It outlines the economic development challenges that constrain a youth’s transition into employment, and it parses the evidence on which programs and policies appear to speed that transition.
The paper analyses experiences of 25 coding boot camps and 7 digital skills programs in 22 countries with the larger objective of tackling the underrepresentation of women in technology. The objective is to share ideas from practitioners around the world that are working to address these challenges.
