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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!

In this study, disadvantaged Brazilian youth participated in a year-long program that used technical skills training as the foundation for learning, while also developing the soft skills that are potentially more important for longer term success.

In this report, The National Research Center for Career and Technical Education (NRCCTE) presents a conceptual foundation for furthering work based learning (WBL) through a review of the three main WBL models: internships, youth apprenticeships, and school-based enterprises.

Established in 2009, Akazi Kanoze (AK) meaning “work well done” in Kinyarwanda, provides Rwandan youth ages 14-35 with market-relevant life and work readiness training and support, hands-on training opportunities, and links to the employment and self-employment job market. Akazi Kanoze builds capacity and creates linkages between youth, the Rwandan economy and the public and private sector so that youth can access increased opportunities for productive engagement in society.