Synthesizing global knowledge to support practitioners.

Our Publications

Our publications provide access to the latest knowledge and experiences on employment promotion. Below you can find selected resources to which we have contributed in recent years.

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.

Hempel and Fiala (2011)

Reports and book chapters

Lessons Learned from Employment Diagnostics during the Covid-19 Crisis

Hempel (2022)

Mapping Report: Labour Migration in East Africa

Schweitzer, Hempel, Özmert and Drewes (2022)

Beyond Finance and Business Skills

Leveraging Behavioral Insights for Entrepreneurship Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Bowers and Hempel (2021)

Improving Employment Perspectives for Persons with Disabilities

Chapter in “Full and Productive Employment and Decent Work for All – Handbook on Employment Promotion in Development Cooperation”

GIZ (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.

Wuermli, Hempel, Aber and Lundberg (2012)

Policy Briefs

Does solar energy create inclusive employment opportunities?

The case of Tunisia

Fitzke and Hempel (2022)

A Framework for Quality Internships

Promoting Early Work Experience for Young People

Hempel and Pantelic (2020)

Improving Internships in Serbia

What We Know and Need to Know

Pantelic and Hempel (2020)

Making Employment Services and Active Measures Sensitive to the Needs of Young People

Recommendations for Youth Employment Programs in Kosovo

Hempel (2020)

Integrating the Long-Term Unemployed into the Job Market

Synthesis of international experience and implications for Kosovo

Hiebl and Hempel (2019)

Improving Public Employment Services Through Partnerships with Non-Public Providers

Synthesis of international experience and implications for Kosovo

Hiebl and Hempel (2019)

Improving the integration of women in Kosovo’s labor market

What can the Public Employment Agency do?

Brodmann and Hempel (2018)

Protecting and promoting adolescents during economic shocks

Adolescence. Protecting and Promoting Human Development in Times of Economic Shocks. World Bank. 

Wuermli, Hempel and Lundberg (2012)

Investing in children and youth

Investing in your country’s children and youth today: good policy, smart economics. World Bank.

Hempel and Cunningsham (2010)

Evaluation reports

Overcoming Youth Unemployment in Egypt

Impact Evaluation of Emergency Employment Investment Project (EEIP) in Egypt.

Elsayed, Hempel and Osman (2018)

Evaluation of Souk-at Tanmia, Tunisia

Souk-at Tanmia. Independent evaluation of the 2012-2013 pilot edition in Tunisia.

Hempel and Midani (2015)

Prospera Consulting
Solutions for effective employment promotion.