Gender-sensitive training can improve youth’s labour-market outcomes in Kenya Despite a long history of technical, vocational education, and training (TVET) in Kenya...
June, 2024 Soft skills boost job prospects and pay for young women in informal sector By Laura Barasa, Kibrom Abay, Maria Laura Alzua and Phyllis Machio PEP researchers share how gender-sensitive soft-skills training can improve young women and men's labor market empowerment, and well-being outcomes. Education & training Gender & women's empowerment Labor markets & employment
November, 2023 Reshaping the Education Policy Landscape in Africa By the Partnership for Economic Policy Getting to know the Africa Fellows in Education Program, the fellows and their work. Education & training
Market information voice messages increase revenues for Guinea-Bissau’s cashew producers Cashew nut production and commercialization is the main income source for a large porti...
Free childcare program improves mothers’ employment outcomes in Mongolia Women’s labor force participation (LFP) in Mongolia is declining, especially in the cap...
Trust in local ambassadors helps encourage mobile banking in rural Peru In 2015, the Peruvian government introduced measures to address the low levels of finan...
Parental migration significantly reduces children’s school performance in rural Cambodia Millions of Cambodians are migrating in search of work, many leaving their children beh...
Improving job matching for Zambia's youth Only about 55% of employed youth in Zambia have jobs that match their level of educatio...
Improving cognitive skills for non-farm entrepreneurial productivity and growth in Indonesia Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute 60% of GDP and occupy 97% of the workfor...
Easing school to work transitions in Benin It can take up to four years after leaving school for young people in Benin to find the...
Combining credit and training to support micro and small enterprises in Ethiopia Over the last two decades, the government of Ethiopia has implemented various training ...
The impact of increased public spending on education in Cambodia Cambodia is currently facing a skills shortage, creating a mismatch of skills between i...
The impact of child and youth work on school performance in Brazil Despite a significant improvement in school attendance Brazil continues to lag behind o...
Impact of credit counseling on the entrepreneurial behavior of Ugandan youth With three-quarters of the Ugandan population under the age of 30 and high levels of yo...
The impact of vocational training programs on youth unemployment in Mongolia High levels of unemployment, particularly amongst youth, pose a significant problem in ...
Education language choice and youth entrepreneurship in Chad Selected for support under the first round of the PEP-PAGE initiative, this project exa...
Scaling up education interventions in Kenya: the importance of institutions One of the proposed policy options to address the issue of quality of education (i.e. ...
