This paper systematically reviews and summarizes 40 rigorous evaluations of SME support services in low and middle-income countries and presents evidence to help inform policy debates.
This database search, lists about 35 youth employment related evaluations from J-PAL affiliated professors.
This brief summarizes the impact of a job search planning intervention on job search efficiency and employment among unemployed youth in South Africa. The planning intervention improved participants’ job search intensity and efficiency, leading to higher rates of employment.
The toolkit provides resources which are best applied ex-ante in the design of projects and their M&E systems, so that data collection can support implementation progress and reporting from the outset. The indicators and data collection forms may also be useful for related mid-term, final or impact evaluations.
This paper presents findings on the utility of Entrepreneurial Mindset Index (EMI) - a tool to measure attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs associated with being an entrepreneur - highlighting its potential as an innovative and effective assessment tool in the entrepreneurship education landscape.
By highlighting best practices and providing lessons on data collection, the toolkit serves as a resource for learning and accountability. It has lessons from more than a dozen non-profits and social businesses on how to successfully monitor and evaluate social programs.
Using examples from the Ninaweza youth livelihoods program in Kenya, this note discusses the importance of impact evaluations, outlines proper methodology and design, talks about where such evaluations are most appropriate and gives key recommendations for their implementation.
The purpose of this paper is to frame the current issues around measuring employment and labor market outcomes in the context of workforce development programs.
This guideline builds on the GTZ’s general “Results-based Monitoring – Guidelines for Technical Cooperation Projects and Programmes”. These general guidelines describe seven steps for results-based monitoring.
The guide has been designed to support the design, administration, monitoring and evaluation of programmes targeting the disadvantaged unemployed.
