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In many developing nations, young people make up a substantial part of the population. As these youths enter the workforce, many of them face a stark reality. While there are decent jobs available, youths often lack the skills to fill them. As a result, these young people are relegated to low-skilled jobs or unemployment, trapping them in poverty, reducing their nation's economic growth, and sowing the seeds for political instability.Ensuring meaningful youth employment and lasting prosperity calls for multi-faceted expertise…

Are we at risk of losing a generation of job creators? If so, why are current efforts falling short? And what, through collective action, can we do about it?   Join us for a dynamic discussion of the need, proposed solutions, and next steps for collaboration, at the Global Center for Youth Employment on May 17, 2017.   In advance of the discussion, the GCYE will distribute a new report on expanding access to entrepreneurship: "An Ecosystem Model for Credentialing…

The SEEP Network, in collaboration with Forum Partners, is hosting an international convening on women’s economic empowerment, focusing on bringing down the systemic barriers standing in the way of scalable and sustainable change. The forum will bring together leading stakeholders in the field of women’s economic empowerment as a means to facilitate dialogue, build global learning connections, and promote effective practice and policy to address the needs of vulnerable women all around the world. The WEE Learning Forum intends to…

RTI University Scholars Seminar Series Presentation by Dr. Sylvia Nassar This seminar will share critical guidelines for building effective career and workforce development programs for youth, developed through a recent survey study with experts spanning policy, research, and practice domains. The Delphi study effectively developed consensus across the domains as well as global borders. After reviewing these critical guidelines, we will engage in interactive discussion with participants about implications of study results and creative implementation strategies across youth populations both…

One third of the world’s 1.8 billion young people are currently neither in education nor employment. Yet, only 30% of youth employment programs are successful – according to the World Bank (here and here).  In the face of a global youth employment crisis there is a dearth of effective solutions. The Global Center for Youth Employment, in partnership with the Ford Foundation and 1776 will host a 2-day Ideathon to source, co-design, and invest in innovative collective impact solutions to…