Publications on youth employment

  1. Profile and Analysis of Youth, Gender and Land Related Conflicts in Bong and Lofa Counties, Liberia

    02 December 2020

    This study informs, and is part of, the UN Peacebuilding Fund project “Sustaining peace and improving social cohesion through the promotion of rural employment opportunities for youth in conflict-prone areas”, implemented jointly by the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Food Programme (WFP). Its findings serve to support the analytical basis upon which project activities are designed and implemented, and the participation of local stakeholders throughout the project’s components.

  2. Work for Youth (W4Y) - (Final Evaluation Summary)

    07 November 2016

    Project: GLO/11/01/MCF - Evaluation Consultants: Anthony Dewees, Marie-Laure Talbot, Tony Powers

  3. W4Y Liberia country summary

    24 November 2015

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

    14 February 2014

    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. Results show that unemployment of young people remains a matter of concern, but that issues relating to the quality of work available to young people are of even greater relevance to the design and implementation of policy interventions.

  5. Labour market transitions of young women and men in Liberia

    30 October 2013

    This report presents the highlights of the 2012 School-to-work Transition Survey (SWTS) and Labour Demand Enterprise Survey (LDES)run together with the Liberian Institute of Statistics and Geo-information Services within the framework of the ILO Work4Youth project.

  6. Promoting job creation for young people in multinational enterprises and their supply chains: Liberia

    02 September 2010

    Employment Sector - Employment Report No. 7

  7. Independent evaluation of the ILO's strategy to support member States capacities to development policies and programmes focused on youth employment. Case studies are on Perú, Indonesia and Liberia.

    24 October 2009

    The evaluation analyses the ILO’s strategy to increase member States’ capacities to develop policies or programmes focused on youth employment. The thrust of this strategy is to strengthen the International Labour Organization (ILO) constituents’ capacities to translate global commitments expressed in the United Nations (UN) (for making productive employment and decent work a fundamental component of economic and social policies and/or development strategies) into national action.

  8. Building the Case for Business Collaboration on Youth Employment: Good Practice from West Africa

    11 June 2008

    This report, which examines eight case studies of intersectoral partnership on youth employment, illustrates the importance of collective action to build partnerships between public and private insitutions, harnessing each of their core capabilities and recognising that they are critical to each others capacity.