Publications on youth employment

  1. Green Business Booklet

    12 May 2017

    Going green is not only good for the environment, but makes business sense too, as the greening of enterprises results in improved access to markets, higher productivity and cost savings. The Green Business Booklet is part of the Green Jobs packages and the Start and Improve Your Business series of products and helps aspiring entrepreneurs to come up with a green business idea and existing entrepreneurs to green their businesses.

  2. YouthXchange Green Skills and Lifestyles Guidebook

    12 October 2016

    This Guidebook helps young people connect the talk about the green economy, green societies and green jobs to their lifestyles. It focuses on the skills required to make these transitions – providing case studies and insight on green jobs and the skills they will require in terms of social innovation and entrepreneurship, the role of different stakeholders (government and private sector) and life skills.

  3. Strengthening national leadership through the Embedded Approach in Timor-Leste

    19 September 2016

    This paper provides an overview of selected lessons learned from the ILO’s involvement in fragile Timor-Leste. In particular it focuses on the embedded approach and its significance for the sustained engagement of the ILO in Timor-Leste.

  4. ILO Youth Entrepreneurship Facility Youth-to-Youth Fund in East Africa: Public-Private Partnership

    06 October 2015

    The Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (YEF) enables African youth to turn their energy and ideas into business opportunities to increase their income and create decent work for themselves and others. It is an initiative by the Danish-led Africa Commission, implemented by the Youth Employment Network (YEN) and the ILO, with financial support from BASF.

  5. Skills Policies for Economic Diversification in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

    08 June 2012

    Enhancing local skills policies for the food and tourism sectors

  6. 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.