Publications on youth employment

  1. The Taqeem Fund: Results-based monitoring and evaluation for youth employment in the MENA region: Public-Private Partnership

    26 July 2014

    To support youth employment initiatives and improving the effectiveness of their programs, the ILO initiated work on results-based monitoring and evaluation. This new public-private partnership (PPP) supports a select group of small and medium-sized youth employment organizations from the Middle East and North Africa region to develop strategies and provide evidence of their impact, through cost-effective and mass-market technology-based tools. The results are promoted to a broader community of policymakers, practitioners and funders. The Taqeem (wich means “evaluation” in Arabic) Community of Practice (CoP) is a group of fifteen youth employment organizations pioneering new approaches to build capacity in the MENA region to measure and monitor the impact of national programmes.

  2. Labour market transitions of young women and men in Jamaica

    22 July 2014

    This report presents the highlights of the 2013 School-to-work Transition Survey (SWTS) run together with the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) within the framework of the ILO Work4Youth Project.

  3. Innovative Apprenticeship and Internship Models in the IT Sector in the United States

    17 July 2014

  4. Leaving No One Behind: Reaching Key Populations through workplace action on HIV and AIDS

    15 July 2014

    This literature review was commissioned to contribute to the body of knowledge on reaching key populations with HIV services. It sought to demonstrate how the workplace and/or the workforce could be creatively used to increase access to HIV services for key populations.

  5. Reaffirming and promoting rights during transition: development results 2012-2013

    30 June 2014

    By looking at a narrow set of indicators, such as the rate of privatization, trade openness, debt, inflation and foreign direct investment, most analysts had concluded that Arab countries were on the right track economically in the lead up to the Arab uprisings.

  6. Labour market transitions of young women and men in Egypt

    19 June 2014

    This report presents the highlights of the 2012 School-to-work Transition Survey (SWTS) run together with the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) within the framework of the ILO Work4Youth Project.

  7. Skills for Employment Policy Brief - Greening the economies of least developed countries: the role of skills and training

    18 June 2014

    Part of the Policy Brief series produced by the Skills and Employability Branch

  8. Crisis responses, competitiveness and jobs

    16 June 2014

    This publication is the outcome of a joint project of the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs, and Inclusion of the European Commission and the Research Department of the ILO.

  9. Outcome 1 and 2 ILO-SIDA Partnership evaluation - National Employment Policies (NEP) and Youth Employment (Evaluation Summary)

    16 June 2014

    Projects: GLO/11/53/SID (global product); INT/12/51/SID (Outcome 1; ELS/12/50/SID, INS/12/51/SID, JOR/12/51/SID, ZAM/12/52/SID; and GLO/11/60/SID - Evaluation Consultant: José Francisco Pacheco Jiménez

  10. Labour market transitions of young women and men in Jordan

    05 June 2014

    This report presents the highlights of the 2012 School-to-work Transition Survey (SWTS) run together with the Jordanian Department of Statistics within the framework of the ILO Work4Youth Project.