OECD Youth Policy Toolkit

Reader’s guide

Each chapter of the OECD Youth Policy Toolkit addresses one of the five pillars of the OECD Youth Recommendation and includes a combination of the following components:

• Relevance section. This section offers context on why and how young people should be supported, in line with the OECD Youth Recommendation. The section lists policy recommendations and includes an overview of relevant policies and practices.

• Boxes with young people’s voices. A series of youth consultations was organised during the elaboration of the OECD Youth Policy Toolkit. Participants of OECD YOUNG (Youth Organisations’ Sounding Board for Governance) as well as members of OECD Youthwise and young people from Europe, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region were consulted on all key areas of the OECD Youth Recommendation. Their opinions feed into the Toolkit through the boxes that can be found at the end of the relevance sections.

• A list of indicators. The indicators provide links to OECD as well as non-OECD data sources on youth outcomes to better understand the topics at hand. These indicators are categorised as either youth-specific or non-youth-specific, to show the availability of targeted data.

• Good practice examples. Each section contains three good practice examples drawn from international, multinational, national, and sub-national initiatives, to illustrate the diverse approaches available to countries aiming to support their youth cohort. These sections describe the good practice examples and highlight their outcomes. They also emphasise interlinkages across pillars where relevant.

Table 1. List of good practice examples

	Name of the good practice	Country	Interlinkage with other pillars
Pillar II. Skills and competencies
II.1	Eco-School Programme	Czechia	II.8
II.1	Latvian School Bag	Latvia	II.8 and IV.5
II.1	BREAK!	Estonia, Iceland, and Lithuania	II.8
II.2	Computers for Education	Colombia	II.8
II.2	SparkDigiGirls	Greece, Lithuania, Portugal, and Slovenia
II.2	My Career Path	France	III.3
II.3	Tackling Early School Leaving project	Latvia	II.8 and IV.3
II.3	Vocational Training Guarantee	Austria
II.3	PUM-O	Slovenia	IV.3 and V.4
II.4	Training Candidate Scheme	Norway
II.4	EBA apprenticeships	Switzerland
II.4	Workshop Schools, Tools for Peace Programme	Colombia
II.5	Gatsby Benchmarks	United Kingdom
II.5	Employer engagement in career guidance	New Zealand	II.7
II.5	Rock Your Life programme	Germany
II.6	Early College Credit Programme	United States
II.6	Canada Student Financial Assistance Program	Canada
II.6	Financial support for tertiary students	Netherlands
II.7	Training alliances	Austria
II.7	Apprenticeship Training agencies	Norway
II.7	#LifelongLearning	Switzerland
II.8	Parents’ Briefcase	France
II.8	School Leavers’ Toolkit	New Zealand	II.7
II.8	Taking teachers further	United Kingdom	II.7
Pillar III. Labour market outcomes for young people
III.1	Youth employment subsidies	Australia, Austria, Belgium, Chile, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Poland, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, and Türkiye	IV.1
III.1	Green Initiatives	Estonia, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, and Spain	II.4, II.7, III.3, and III.4
III.1	WANTO Grant	United States	II.4 and II.7
III.2	Enabling Accessibility Fund	Canada	V.2
III.2	Removing the sub-minimum wage for young people	Belgium
III.2	Friendly Work Space Job-Stress-Analysis	Switzerland	IV.5 and VI.1
III.3	DUO for a JOB	Belgium, France, and the Netherlands
III.3	Vision Plan Programme	Korea	II.4, IV.3 and IV.5
III.3	FutureBOS	United States	II.4 and III.1
III.4	Young Entrepreneurs Succeed!	Greece, Italy, Poland, and Spain	II.4, III.3 and IV.3
III.4	Yes I Start Up	Italy
III.4	Rural Youth Entrepreneurs	Colombia
Pillar IV. Young people’s social outcomes
IV.1	Integration Allowance	Belgium
IV.1	Unemployment insurance for graduates	Denmark
IV.1	National Employment Programme	Costa Rica	II.4, II.7 and III.1
IV.2	Free public pre‑school for 3‑4 year-olds	Israel
IV.2	Earnings disregard for single parents on welfare	Netherlands
IV.2	Back to Work Family Dividend	Ireland
IV.3	Building opportunities	Costa Rica	IV.1
IV.3	One‑stop guidance centres for young people	Finland	II.7, III.3, IV.5 and VI.2
IV.3	5‑day Hikikomori intervention	Japan	IV.5
IV.4	Housing First	Ireland, United Kingdom, Canada, and the Netherlands	IV.3, IV.5 and VI.2
IV.4	Staying Close	United Kingdom	IV.3, IV.5 and VI.2
IV.4	There is a Future	Spain	IV.3, IV.5, V.2 and VI.2
IV.5	Youth Aware of Mental Health Programme	Australia, Austria, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States
IV.5	True Love	Mexico	IV.3 and V.2
IV.5	headspace	Australia	II.1
Pillar V. Young people’s trust in government and relationship with public institutions
V.1	Civic education	Denmark, Portugal, and Sweden	II.1 and V.2
V.1	Easy vote	Switzerland	V.2
V.1	Reviewing minimum age requirements to vote and run as candidate in elections	Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Korea, Lithuania, Mexico, and Türkiye
V.2	Promoting youth participation in tackling global challenges	Denmark, and France
V.2	National Strategy for Children and Young People’s Participation in Decision-Making	Ireland	V.1
V.2	Our Region, Our Voice, Regional Youth Investment Programme	Australia	VI.2
V.3	The Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service	Ireland	III.1 and III.3
V.3	Initiatives for strengthening the public sector workforce	France	III.1 and III.3
V.3	Civil Service Fast Stream	United Kingdom	III.1 and III.3
V.4	Civic service and youth volunteering programmes	Canada, France, Italy, Luxembourg, and the European Union	II.4
V.4	The Future: Policy on leisure and youth work for children and young people	Iceland	IV.5
V.4	Government grants to youth organisations	Sweden
Pillar VI. Administrative and technical capacities to address age based inequalities
VI.1	Gender Based Analysis Plus	Canada	II.1, IV.3 and IV.5
VI.1	LUPP youth survey	Sweden	II.1, IV.3 and IV.5
VI.1	National Youth Survey	Costa Rica	II.1, III.3 and IV.5
VI.2	Youth strategies	Mexico, the Slovak Republic, Spain and the European Union	II.3, III.1, III.2, IV.1, IV.3, IV.4, IV.5, V.1 and V.2
VI.2	The National Youth Work and Youth Policy Programme 2020‑23	Finland	II.1, III.1, III.2, III.3, IV.1, IV.2, IV.3, IV.4, IV.5 and VI.1
VI.2	Methodology of Youth Policy Implementation Assessment	Lithuania	IV.3, IV.5 and VI.1
VI.3	Future Generations Commissioner for Wales	United Kingdom	II.1, III.1, III.2, IV.5 and VI.1
VI.3	Assessing the regulatory impact on young people	Austria, Belgium, France, and Germany	VI.1 and VI.2
VI.3	Intergenerational Reports	Australia	VI.1