All publications: youth employment + youth unemployment + young workers

Work4Youth Publications

Labour market transitions of young women and men in Samoa

This report presents the highlights of the 2012 School-to-work Transition Survey (SWTS) implemented by the Samoa Bureau of Statistics (SBS) and the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour (MCIL) within the framework of the ILO Work4Youth Project.

Findings of the follow-up study on former child labourers trained on entrepreneurship and apprenticeship - The cases of Kisumu and Nairobi...

This study sought to find out if there was any added advantage that entrepreneurship skills training had on the trainees and it compares post training progression between trainees who had received entrepreneurship training to those who in addition...

Employment Promotion Project following the Earthquake in Mianzhu, Sichuan Province, China

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...

The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) and the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour join forces to...

The partnership connects the 40 million-strong Scout Movement with the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), in particular with its Supporting Children’s Rights through Education, the Arts and the Media programme...

Work4Youth: The MasterCard Foundation’s Partnership with the ILO: Public-Private Partnership

A public-private partnership (PPP) between the ILO and The MasterCard Foundation has been 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...

Empowering Union Participation for Strengthening the Role of the Viet Nam General Confederation of Labour in Better Work Viet Nam

The partnership is supporting workers’ organizations within Better Work – a multi-country innovative partnership between the ILO and the International Finance Corporation aiming at improving compliance with national labour laws and core labour...

Building Capacity for Social Compliance of Investments in Agriculture in Africa

The Africa Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund (AATIF), emerged through a private-public partnership initiated by KfW on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and Deutsche Bank. It aims to realize the ...

The Youth Entrepreneurship Facility’s Youth-to-Youth Fund in East Africa: Public-Private Partnership

The Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (YEF) enables African youth to turn their ideas into business opportunities aimed at increasing their income and the creation of decent work for themselves and others. It is a public-private partnership (PPP)...

The PREJAL Project: Promoting Youth Employment in Latin America: Public-Private Partnership

In 2005 the ILO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean – assisted by the ILO Office in Madrid – started the regional PREJAL project: Promoting Youth Employment in Latin America, the first public-private partnership (PPP) in Latin...

Entrepreneurship Education – Know About Business in Jordan

The ILO’s Know About Business (KAB) training programme has contributed toward the creation of an enterprise culture in many countries and societies. It promotes awareness among young people of the opportunities and challenges of entrepreneurship...

Improving work opportunities for young people in the Mano River Union (Youth-to-Youth fund)

Aimed at youth-led organizations in Guinea, the YEN, in collaboration with UNIDO, FCP, and the WB, launched a competitive grant scheme. The call was for innovative small-scale youth employment projects and supported young people in the transition...

New report addresses twin challenges of child labour and youth employment in Lao PDR

This report examines the related issues of child labour and youth employment in Laos. Guided by observed outcomes in terms of schooling, work activities and status in the labour market, the report considers the economic as well as the social...

Youth employment model for children of legal working age

This report evaluates the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Agency Programmes with view to identifying the opportunities for LEC. It also presents a core model dubbed Smiling Youth Initiative to address the problem of youth unemployment for...

Analysis of youth employment policy and dissemination through global database and publications (component for Asia and the Pacific)...

At the International Labour Conference in 2012 ILO tripartite constituents passed a resolution to address youth employment challenges, and called on governments to share experiences and information on effective youth employment policies. They asked...

Area of critical importance on jobs and skills for youth

The document presents the main elements of the strategy of the area of critical importance (ACI) “Jobs and skills for youth”. It focuses on identifying interventions that “work for youth employment” and the circumstances in which this is the case....

Work4Youth Publications

Labour market transitions of young women and men in sub-Saharan Africa

This report presents the results of the School-to-work transition surveys (SWTS) implemented in eight sub-Saharan African countries – Benin, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, the United Republic of Tanzania, Togo, Uganda and Zambia – in 2012 or 2013....

Work4Youth Publications

Informal employment among youth: evidence from 20 school-to-work transition surveys

This report provides empirical evidence to confirm that informal employment, a category considered as “non-standard” in traditional literature, is in fact “standard” among young workers in developing economies. Based on the school-to-work...

Impact of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on child labour

This study examines the incidence of child labour under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), which does not allow for the employment of a person below 18 years of age.

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Doha Evidence Symposium, 6-8 March, Doha

“What Works” To Improve Youth Labour Productivity?

Implementation of the decent work agenda in West Africa : results of activities of the Decent Work Technical Support Team

This report presents the achievements of the Decent Work Technical support team for West Africa and Country Office for Senegal, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Togo...