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Part 2: How to reach the masses: using mainstream media to inform young Albanians and their parents about the labour market

Introduction

Originally posted on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation blog. 

Employers need to improve their ability to measure, manage, and raise the skill level of their employees in order to remain competitive and achieve their business goals.

Originally published by The World Bank on August 12, 2015

A Good Job means equality. A Good Job means opportunity. A good job means excitement. A Good Job means sustainability. These are just a few of the descriptions of a “Good Job” that we heard from youth and others in attendance at last October’s launch event for Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE) coalition.

It was at this event that S4YE unveiled a vision for a world where all youth have access to work opportunities that empower them to escape poverty, thus boosting shared prosperity worldwide. An urgent challenge.  A massive opportunity.  

Originally published by the Huffington Post on September 25, 2015. 

At the United Nations in New York today, world leaders are gathering to finalize the Global Goals -- the targets that will replace the Millennium Development Goals and shape trillions of dollars of spending over the next 15 years. There is much high-minded rhetoric here at the United Nations that development is all about people.

Part 3: Career guidance centre in Kosovo bridges the gap between VET schools and private sector

Introduction

In our third and final blog about labour market interventions in Eastern Europe we will talk about career guidance centres for students of Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Kosovo. The story describes how a new and sustainable approach towards career guidance ensures VET students and private companies receive better services.

I’m passionate about the power of financial inclusion – particularly the financial inclusion of young people.

Why? Globally young people are disproportionately financially excluded for a myriad of often complex reasons. One illustration of this exclusion was highlighted by the World Bank’s Findex data released earlier this year, showing that in Sub Saharan Africa just 20% of young people have a bank account compared to 33% of adults.

Originally published by The Young Africa Works Summit. 

Agriculture is the single largest source of income for rural Africans and contributes to a quarter of the continent’s GDP. The sector occupies more than 70 percent of the labor force in Africa’s low-income countries and contributes to food security and poverty reduction.

Originally posted by Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Originally posted by The Huffington Post

It's dark outside when Martin Kiptoo Kiyeng opens his eyes. He gazes at the concrete ceiling of the room he shares with his cousin's brother in Rongai, Nairobi. He sighs. It's 5 am on a Wednesday in September, his 700th day of unemployment since he graduated high school.

The USAID 2015 Global Education Summit brought together a broad array of stakeholders in the field of global education, including USAID education staff from Missions around the world, USG representatives, partner countries’ Ministries of Education, NGOs, think tanks, as well as thought leaders to review current best practices and demonstrate new and innovative approaches to global education. The Summit commemorated the momentum built under the current Education Strategy, and set a strong course for continued strategic investment in education.