Evidence and Gap Map

As the national What Works Centre for youth employment, we want to make sure that support for young people is based on the best-available evidence

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The map gathers global evidence on different types of intervention that are designed to improve youth employment outcomes and young people’s skills.

The main categories are:

Training, up-skilling and re-training/skilling
Support to employment
Decent work policies
Labour market information systems
Private sector development
Finance and financial incentives (both of which include elements of support to entrepreneurship)
Cross-cutting interventions

The map is interactive.

Clicking on a row or column heading gives the list of studies in that row or column.

Clicking on a cell gives the list of studies in that cell.

Clicking on a study record gives its bibliographic information, summary and a link to the original source.

If you have any questions, please contact our evidence team.

We will update the Evidence and Gap Map as new studies are published, including evaluations of Youth Futures funded interventions.

The map is designed to support evidence-informed decision-making by:

The map shows:

The map doesn’t show:

if a particular intervention or specific programme has improved youth employment or other intended outcomes

For this information, click through to an individual study report.

Our Director of Impact and Evidence introduces the digital tool, in conversation with Anna Smee and Campbell Collaboration’s CEO Howard White.