All publications: youth employment + youth unemployment + young workers

Case Study: Update on improving apprenticeship in the informal economy in Togo

In Togo, there is strong social recognition among the population of traditional apprenticeship as a way of qualifying in a trade. Craftspersons simply transform their workshops/enterprises into training centres that take on apprentices for a set...

Report

The Youth and COVID-19: Access to Decent Jobs amid the Pandemic

Countering unemployment in the United Kingdom

This report charts the evolution of measures to combat unemployment in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland over the three decades 1970–2000.

COVID-19 Pandemic in the World of Work

ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the world of work. 7th edition

Rapid assessment of information and communication technology skills demand in Indonesia

This rapid assessment of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skill demands was conducted by analyzing available job vacancies and direct survey of companies.

ILO Working Paper 19

Trends and new developments in employment services to support transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa Regions

This paper presents the findings of a survey undertaken in selected countries in the Sub Saharan Africa and Middle East and North Africa regions (SSA and MENA) aimed at reviewing the status of employment service provision, challenges and...

Policy actions to improve TVET teachers quality for market relevant skills delivery

The brief focused different issues relevant to the NSDP from the perspective of improving the quality of TVET teachers, trainers, instructors and master trainers for skills development.

A synthesis: Operational guidelines and their application to Ethiopia’s Employment and Youth Employability Services (YES) centres in the...

Efficient Institutional Management for effective TVET delivery

The brief focused on the issues relevant institutional management of TVET for skill Development.

Skills Development and Lifelong Learning: Resource Guide for Workers’ Organizations

ILO Youth Country Brief

Rwanda: Youth Labour Markets and the School-to-Work Transition

This brief analyses the nature and duration of the school-to-work transition in Rwanda and compares it with other Sub-Saharan countries as well as reviewing the country’s youth employment policy.

Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean (Number 23): Employment trends in an unprecedented crisis: Policy challenges

This edition of the Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean report, jointly prepared twice-yearly by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Office for the Southern Cone of Latin America of the...

COVID-19 Response Plan for Bangladesh TVET sector

ILO's EU funded Skills 21 project supported DTE to develop a COVID-19 response plan for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)

Dialogue and recommendations on strengthening industries’ role in skills delivery

The brief focused on different issues relevant to the National Skills Development Policy from the perspective of strengthening industry’s role in skills development.

GB.340/POL/2

Renewing commitment to youth employment by endorsing a follow-up plan of action on youth employment for the period 2020–30

The consideration of this item was deferred from the 338th Session (March 2020) of the Governing Body. This document is a revised version of GB.338/POL/2, updated to reflect developments that have occurred since March 2020.

Assessment of employment- intensive investment strategies in refugee-hosting communities in Ethiopia

The report identifies short- and medium-term interventions for the creation of jobs, infrastructure and other assets for host, IDP and refugee communities by means of interventions by the Employment-Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP).

Synthesis report: Skills shortages and labour migration in the field of information and communication technology in Canada, China, Germany,...

Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth

Growing green: Fostering a green entrepreneurial ecosystem for youth

The research reviews the entrepreneurial ecosystem to assess capacity to foster young green entrepreneurship and to address the social and environmental challenges.

TVET students career guidance workbook (in Bangla)

Skills 21 project with the technical support from the International Training Centre of ILO (ITC-ILO) developed kit for career guidance. The kit consisted with a career dictionary, facilitator notes, student’s work sheet, flip chart, learning cards...

Facilitator's notes for TVET (in Bangla)

Skills 21 project with the technical support from the International Training Centre of ILO (ITC-ILO) developed kit for career guidance. The kit consisted with a career dictionary, facilitator notes, student’s work sheet, flip chart, learning cards...