All publications: youth employment + youth unemployment + young workers

W4Y Uganda country summary

W4Y Malawi country summary

Situational Analysis of Employment in Nauru

The Situational Analysis of Employment reviews the principal economic and labour market challenges facing Nauru.

The employment dimension of infrastructure investments: A guide for employment impact assessment

Employment Working Paper No. 178

Does the work-study combination among youth improve the transition path?

Can working while studying act as a stepping stone to good labour market opportunities or is it rather a necessity-driven constraint of more vulnerable youth, taking focus away from studying? The objective of the present technical brief is to...

Human security initiative for tensions deduction, reconciliation and rehabilitation in Solomon Islands - Third annual progress report

Third annual progress report

Background note

Background note for the panel on “Employment and new technologies: Opportunities for Africa’s youth”

The ILO Work4Youth project in Malawi

The ILO Work4Youth project worked with the National Statistical Office of Malawi to implement two rounds of the School-to-work transition survey (SWTS) in 2012 (August‒September) and 2014 (September). The objective of this country note is to offer a...

Decent employment for youth project in Egypt (Midterm evaluation summary)

Project EGY/11/02/USA - Evaluation consultant: Stanlye Karuga and Taissir Hosam El-din

Global Employment Trends for Youth 2015: Scaling up investments in decent jobs for youth

This issue of Global Employment Trends for Youth provides an update on youth labour markets around the world, focusing both on the continuing labour market instability and on structural issues in youth labour markets.

Promoting Youth Employment in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS): Public-Private Partnership

This technical cooperation project, funded by Lukoil and implemented by the ILO, seeks to strengthen the impact of policies and programmes on youth employment in order to support the creation of more and better jobs for young people. The project...

Chinese supplier training: Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE): Public-Private Partnership

Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) is a practical training and in-factory counselling programme that improves productivity and working conditions in small and medium enterprises. The product demonstrates best international...

PREJAL - Promoting Youth Employment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Public-Private Partnership

In 2005 the ILO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean – assisted by the ILO Office in Madrid – began the PREJAL project. This regional initiative for the promotion of youth employment in Latin America is one of the first public-private...

Employment promotion following the earthquake in Mianzhu, Sichuan Province of China: Public-Private Partnership

In May 2008, an earthquake registering 8.0 on the Richter scale struck the Sichuan province in China. Official statistics state that over 45 million people were affected, including 69,163 deaths. Approximately 6.5 million homes were destroyed and...

Improving labour market outcomes for young women and men: Public-Private Partnership

The ILO’s Youth Employment Programme carried out a global systematic review of youth employment interventions. The aim of the study is to support policymakers and practitioners with evidence-based recommendations on what works to effectively support...

Job evaluation and design of an occupational certification process in the construction industry - Uruguay: Public-Private Partnership

In coordination with employers’ and workers’ representatives, and funded by the Fondo Social de la Construcción, the ILO Inter-American Centre for Knowledge Development in Vocational Training (ILO-CINTERFOR) embarked on an initiative entitled “Job...

Work4Youth: The Mastercard Foundation's partnership with the ILO: Public-Private Partnership

A public-private partnership (PPP) between the ILO and The MasterCard Foundation was established to improve data and knowledge on youth employment that will, in turn, help the ILO to better guide constituents to shape effective policies and...

Building capacity for social compliance of investments in African agriculture: Public-Private Partnership

The partner in this PPP, AATIF, is an investment fund that emerged through a public-private partnership initiated by the KfW Development Bank on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and Deutsche Bank. It...

Know About Business in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt): Public-Private Partnership

The ILO adapted its Know About Business (KAB) programme, which is a set of training materials for entrepreneurship education, to bridge the pre-start gap that students in the oPt face before entry to the labour market with information to develop...

TAQEEM Fund for youth employment evaluation (Phase I & II) - A partnership to promote results-based monitoring and evaluation for youth...

Taqeem (meaning “evaluation” in Arabic) has been implemented in two phases. The first phase worked with 15 youth employment organizations and initiatives reaching approximately 15,000 young people a year as part of a competitively selected Community...