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.
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.