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.
This toolkit provides practices and suggestions for creating or improving quality youth entrepreneurship programming. The guide covers topics from program design, curriculum essentials, youth selection, financing of youth enterprises, and follow-up support services such as mentoring, as well as a section dedicated to entrepreneurship in the African context.
This note describes best practices around career guidance for young people as part of a holistic youth employment effort and is designed to serve the needs of a variety of youth-serving institutions.
This brief describes how youth organizations can effectively create holistic programming around rural youth entrepreneurship, based on IYF’s experiences in youth agribusiness in Senegal.
This report maps organizations providing life skills programming in MENA to provide a landscape mapping in the region, curricula and pedagogical methods used, and effective training methods.
This toolkit is designed to help program implementers enhance the design, planning, implementation, and evaluation of life skills programming and training. The standards used in this guide have been developed by the International Youth Foundation (IYF) and its partners.
This toolkit will help practitioners who have limited or no knowledge about impact evaluation or quantitative research methods. This guide offers an accessible introduction to the topic of monitoring and evaluation and its practical application in the youth livelihood field.
