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REPORT: Findings from Five Youth-Inclusive Rural Finance Pilot Projects, March 2016

Making Cents International, Silatech, IFAD

Rural youth in developing countries make up a large and vulnerable group. Globally, three quarters of the poor live in rural areas, and about one-half of this population is young people. This young and growing population confronts a number of challenges, including poor quality of education, lack of basic infrastructure, lack of access to or control of sufficient land for farming, and, for girls in particular, more traditional cultural norms, which severely hinder their ability to build sustainable livelihoods.

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REPORT: Workforce Development Ecosystem Assessment, October 2015

RTI International

RTI International developed this tool for mapping complex workforce development systems and diagnosing their performance from a stakeholder perspective. RTI intentionally took an “institutionally agnostic” approach to this mapping, choosing to focus on functions and processes rather than certain institutions or individuals. RTI has piloted the tool in several regions and is now in the process of revising the data collection approach and the conceptual model. 

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REPORT: The Twin Challenges of Child Labour and Youth Employment in the Arab States: An Overview, February 2016

International Labour Organization

Overcoming the twin challenges of child labour and youth marginalisation is critical for realising the ILO Decent Work Agenda and for social and economic development more generally. The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that there were still some 144 million children aged 5-14 years at work worldwide in 2012, accounting for around 12 per cent of total children in this age group.

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REPORT: Young and female - a double strike? Gender analysis of school-to-work transition surveys in 32 developing countries, January 2016

International Labour Organization

Promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment remain one of the most pressing challenges of inclusive growth and sustainable development. Gender equality has intrinsic value as an essential aspect of human dignity and social justice. The earlier its premises are instilled at the household and individual levels, the more powerful they become in enabling young women to take advantage of a wider range of opportunities to fulfill their goals and aspirations.

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Knowledge Management Platform to Increase the Scale & Sustainability of Youth Economic Opportunity Programs: 2015 Results & 2016 Summit Sponsorship Information

Making Cents International

Meeting the needs of the global youth population requires evidence-based, scalable, and sustainable initiatives. In response, Making Cents International offers a demand-driven Knowledge Management (KM) platform that builds the capacity of youth development stakeholders to design, implement, and evaluate high-impact youth economic opportunity programs, policies, and partnerships. The platform components are:

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Out-of-School Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Policy Perspective

The World Bank

The economic and social prospects are daunting for the 89 million out-of-school youth who comprise nearly half of all youth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Within the next decade when this cohort becomes the core of the labor market, an estimated 40 million more youth will drop out, and will face an uncertain future without work and life skills. Their lack of work and life skills will impair these youth’s ability to get good jobs in desirable occupations, resulting in low and unstable incomes while exposing them to potentially long periods of unemployment.

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Youth Voices: A Response To The MasterCard Foundation's Youth at Work Report

Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT)

The MasterCard Foundation’s Youth at Work: Building Economic Opportunities for Young People in Africa report, released in July 2015, is based on a 2014 review of the Foundation’s skills training programs for youth in Africa.

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A Study of the WRN! Credential Test’s Relationship to Youth Jobs and Employer Satisfaction

Education Development Center (EDC)

Employers and training providers around the world have expressed a need for a way to ensure that job seekers have the requisite work readiness skills and attitudes to be successful on the job. In response to this need, Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), has developed a work readiness credential and digital badge. This Work Ready Now! (WRN!) assessment is one of the first work readiness credentials targeting youth in developing countries. In order to determine the predictive validity of the WRN!

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Workforce Development Strategies Methodology Guide

PricewaterhouseCoopers, USAID

This early stage diagnostic and strategic planning guide is meant to help policy-makers, educators and industry stakeholders understand how competitiveness and workforce development are linked in a sector, with a focus on industry clusters and competitiveness. The guide presents the diagnostic as a four-stage process: Explore, Examine, Envision, and Engage.

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