Synthesizing global knowledge to support practitioners.
Our Publications
Toolkits
Promoting Employment and Decent Work in Development Cooperation
Volume 2: Practical guidance for employment-focused interventions
European Commission (2021)
Enhancing Employment Promotion Interventions through Behavioural Science
An Introductory Guide
Hempel (2020)
Compendium of Tools for Labour Market Assessment
VET Toolbox project
GIZ and Prospera Consulting (2020)
Identifying Employment Effects in GIZ Interventions
Guidelines to support measuring and reporting employment effects
Hempel (2019)
Promoting Employment and Decent Work in Development Cooperation
Volume 1: Concepts and foundations
European Commission (2018)
Measuring Success of Youth Livelihood Interventions
A Practical Guide to Monitoring and Evaluation. Global Partnership for Youth Employment.
K. Hempel and N. Fiala (2011)
Reports and book chapters
Beyond Finance and Business Skills
Leveraging Behavioral Insights for Entrepreneurship Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Bowers, M. and Hempel, K. (2021)
Towards Evidence-Based ALMPs in Egypt
Towards Evidence-Based Active Labour Market Programmes in Egypt. Challenges and Way Forward.
ILO (2017)
M&E of Youth Employment Programs in the Arab World
Making Learning Count: Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Youth Employment Programs in the Arab World.
ILO and Silatech (2015)
Policies to protect and promote young people
Policies to protect and promote young people’s development during crisis. In: Children and Youth in Crisis – Protecting and Promoting Human Development in Times of Economic Shocks.
A. Wuermli, K. Hempel, L. Aber and M. Lundberg (2012)
Policy Briefs
A Framework for Quality Internships
Promoting Early Work Experience for Young People
K. Hempel and S. Pantelic (2020)
Improving Internships in Serbia
What We Know and Need to Know
S. Pantelic and K. Hempel (2020)
Making Employment Services and Active Measures Sensitive to the Needs of Young People
Recommendations for Youth Employment Programs in Kosovo
K. Hempel (2020)
Integrating the Long-Term Unemployed into the Job Market
Synthesis of international experience and implications for Kosovo
J. Hiebl and K. Hempel (2019)
Improving Public Employment Services Through Partnerships with Non-Public Providers
Synthesis of international experience and implications for Kosovo
J. Hiebl and K. Hempel (2019)
Improving the integration of women in Kosovo’s labor market
What can the Public Employment Agency do?
S. Brodmann and K. Hempel (2018)
Protecting and promoting adolescents during economic shocks
Adolescence. Protecting and Promoting Human Development in Times of Economic Shocks. World Bank.
A. Wuermli, K. Hempel and M. Lundberg (2012)
Investing in children and youth
Investing in your country’s children and youth today: good policy, smart economics. World Bank.
K. Hempel and W. Cunningsham (2010)
Evaluation reports
Overcoming Youth Unemployment in Egypt
Impact Evaluation of Emergency Employment Investment Project (EEIP) in Egypt.
A. Elsayed, K. Hempel and A. Osman (2018)
Evaluation of Souk-at Tanmia, Tunisia
Souk-at Tanmia. Independent evaluation of the 2012-2013 pilot edition in Tunisia.
K. Hempel and M. Midani (2015)
Prospera Consulting
Solutions for effective employment promotion.