Meeting the challenge of youth unemployment: analysis and lessons from Jordan, Liberia, and South Africa

This report aims to shed light on three interrelated objectives relative to economic empowerment of youth: (1) promoting job creation for the targeted population; (2) improving the quality of existing jobs occupied by young people (many in the informal sector); and (3) supporting young job seekers in identifying and accessing quality job opportunities. The report presents a descriptive analysis of interventions that are currently pursuing these goals, a gap diagnosis of where attention is lacking, and a series of recommendations for Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE) and related actors. The... Show more

Authors: Alsemeiry, Rayan; Doonquah, Dominique; Keny-Guyer, Maraya ... [+] Show more

Published: [Washington, District of Columbia], Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs Capstone Project, Solutions for Youth Employment and The World Bank Group, 2018

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Physical description: 120 p.

Access item: https://s4ye.org/sites/default/files/2019-02/Meeting the Challenge of Youth Unemployment _0.pdf

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