Published by
School of International and Public Affairs Columbia University

This tool, focused on vocational training and youth employment, is meant to be dynamic instrument and can be used at any point in the programming cycle to assess or re-assess market conditions.

It involves three steps:

  1. The cross reference chart helps practitioners choose which tools to use to achieve a particular programming goal;
  2. The market assessment toolkit, which comprises 10 tools (questionnaires) aimed at providing a dynamic and holistic understanding of current and future market conditions; and
  3. Five decision charts provide guidance and a structured framework to make concrete programming decisions based on information gathered from the toolkit.


 

Useful for:

The toolkit was developed for the northern Uganda context; however, it was developed to be adapted to fit an organisation’s needs, resources and existing knowledge in a range of contexts.