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Towards New Solutions for Youth Employment

A Global Crisis LOW QUALITY Even if young people find work, they are often engaged in low-productivity and low-quality jobs . Only 40% of youth will get jobs that MIGRATION currently exist Many are impacted by 1.8 conflict, poverty or violence and are forced to look for jobs, and often survival, outside their home 85% countries. BILLION WOMEN young people Young women are Young people live in particularly vulnerable as in the world developing they are often segregated countries in informal and low today productivity jobs.

A Global Crisis 600 MILLION Globally 600 million jobs will be needed to keep employment rates constant.

Solutions For Youth Employment Accelerate Curate Pilot 2nd Generation Multi-stakeholder Coalition Youth Programs Innovation Knowledge

S4YE began by consolidating its knowledge base S4YE Baseline Report Annual Report LinkedIn & S4YE 2015 2016 Skills Gap White Paper Towards Solutions for Youth Youth on the Move Challenging Assumptions About Employment (upcoming) Skills Gap in Emerging Countries (upcoming) Online Blogs and “Talking Tactics” Discussion Brief Series Webinar Series

So what’s next? Using Evidence to Inform Operations Innovation Digital for Jobs Impact

What does evidence tell us about the effectiveness of youth employment programs? Focus on Employability supply-side interventions COUNSELING TRAINING INCENTIVES TO ‘ACTIVATE’ YOUTH INTO WORK WAGE SUBSIDIES JOB SEARCH ASSISTANCE ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Results from a recent meta analysis ….. are disappointing Even the programs that had positive effects; had very limited impact.

Towards more integrated youth employment programs Focus on not only trying to connect youth to jobs , but also promote: Creation of accessible jobs for Improve youth the quality of jobs they have This requires linking supply-side with demand-side interventions

We need to push the frontier: move from employability to employment , working closely with private sector SUPPLY-SIDE DEMAND SIDE TARGETED INTERVENTIONS COUNSELING AIMED AT ADDRESSING BUILDING SKILLS CONSTRAINTS OF FIRMS/FARMS INCENTIVES TO ‘ACTIVATE’ TARGETED SECTOR-SPECIFIC YOUTH INTO WORK APPROACHES VALUE CHAIN APPROACHES WAGE SUBSIDIES AGGREGATOR MODELS JOB SEARCH ASSISTANCE LEAD FIRM-SME LINKAGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP FINANCING TO SMEs ETC. Address the fundamentals

Designing Innovation LEARNING STOCKTAKE DESIGN IMPLEMENT LABORATORY What does Learning from a 2 nd Generation Country level pilots evidence tell us variety of Youth Youth Programs for scale about Employment the demand side? Programs

Impact Portfolio - A Learning Laboratory Tunisia Cambodia Kosovo Lebanon Rwanda Tounes Ta3mal Digital Divide Data UPSHIFT Project National Volunteer Educate! Silatech & Microsoft (DDD) UNICEF Service Program World Bank Kenya South Africa Tunisia Kenya Panama FORSATI Program Kuza Project Kenya Youth Skills To Succeed NEO Panama International Labor DFID & Adam Smith Employment and Academy International Youth Organization (ILO) International Opportunities Accenture Foundation (IYF) & World Bank MIF Bangladesh Tanzania Turkey South Africa Rwanda Education Pathways to Work Livelihood Program Harambee Youth STRYDE Project for Youth International Youth Entrepreneurship Skills Employment Technoserve Empowerment Foundation (IYF) & & Business Creation Accelerator Bangladesh MasterCard Youth Business Harambee Save the Children International Colombia El Salvador India Uganda Youth Building the USAID Higher Future Education for Generation India U-LEARN II Accenture & PLAN Economic Growth Generation LLC MasterCard International RTI International (McKinsey) Foundation & Swisscontact

Focus on Digital Jobs ONLINE DISCUSSIONS & STOCKTAKE WORKSHOP CROWDSOURCING WITH WITH TECH IDEAS PARTNERS COMPANIES FROM YOUTH GUIDELINES TO HELP DESIGN PILOTS FLAGSHIP REPORT ON DIGITAL JOBS PILOTS ( FOCUS ON YOUNG GIRLS)

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