Knowledge & Research
Knowledge & Research
Learning Brief: Disrupting the Youth Labour Market: Harambee and Systems Change
The challenges relating to youth unemployment are entrenched and systemic. They require solutions that have advanced through proven ideas and initiatives, and are integrated into key systems. They need to be of a sufficient size and duration that they can be scaled up...Knowledge & Research
Learning Brief: Gender Inequality: Harambee’s Lessons in the Labour Market
Across many factors which affect work-seeking, women are already starting from a position of disadvantage; without focused attention, they could fall further behind. Women experience the additional burden of caregiving due to social pressure and norms; 62% of NEET...Knowledge & Research
The Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator approach: growing the economy inclusively through ecosystem facilitation and sector intermediaries
Tapping into sources of foreign demand has been critical to the economic success stories of developing countries worldwide over the past fifty years. This practice of linking the domestic labour force to sources of global demand, which are many times larger than the...Knowledge & Research
LinkedIn to Job Opportunities: Experimental Evidence from Job Readiness Training
Online professional networking platforms are widely used and offer the prospect of alleviating labor market frictions. The study explores the running of the first randomised evaluation of training work-seekers to join and use one of these platforms. Training increases...Knowledge & Research