How are Youth Employment Programs Adapting to COVID-19?
This brief is part of the solutions for youth employment (S4YE) knowledge brief series focusing on the design and implementation of youth employment programs. In this knowledge brief, the authors highlight different ways in which youth employment p...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/541771603183962317/How-are-Youth-Employment-Programs-Adapting-to-COVID-19 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34703 |
| Summary: | This brief is part of the solutions for
youth employment (S4YE) knowledge brief series focusing on
the design and implementation of youth employment programs.
In this knowledge brief, the authors highlight different
ways in which youth employment projects in S4YE’s community
of practice, the impact portfolio, are adapting their
strategies and delivery models in response to Coronavirus
2019 (COVID-19). Based on recent and ongoing discussions
with the partners, the authors see six main trends that
programs are using to maintain operational and programmatic
continuity. These include scaling of virtual operations,
crowdsourcing ideas from youth, accelerating remote
learning, encouraging youth voice, increased support for
micro, small and medium enterprises, and leveraging new
growth opportunities. Overall, the authors see a deepening
and widening of the ways the partners are using digital
technology to be effective and to reach more youth in these
challenging times. |
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