Practice Guidance for Youth Participation in Evaluation

Youth Futures Foundation has a new £18m programme of evidence generation, internally called What Works Programme 2.  This fund is to develop impact evaluations of employment interventions for our target groups of young people.  As part of this work, we would like to consider what types of youth participation will be possible and appropriate for RCTs already within Youth Futures Foundation’s pipeline of development. 

In May 2024 we published research conducted by the Centre for Evidence and Implementation which reviewed existing approaches and identified promising practice in youth participation in research and evaluation projects. The review highlighted a gap in evidence-informed practice guidance for youth participatory approaches in evaluation projects.

For this project, a commissioned research partner will conduct a literature review and primary research with experts, using the findings to build practice guidance. The guidance will, primarily, focus on youth participation in impact evaluations generating causal evidence (including RCTs and QEDs) but should consider how practitioners can adapt the recommendations for use in other evaluation methods.

We welcome proposals either from a team at a single organisation or from two or more organisations working in partnership. 

For details of the project and guidance on submitting a proposal, read our guide.

For Frequently Asked Questions, click here.

Project Timeline 

Call for Proposals issued: 25th October 2024  

Deadline for submission of questions: 4th November 2024  

Question responses circulated: 6th of November 2024  

Email with intention to submit: 11th November 2024  

Proposal submission deadline: 22nd November 2024  

Interviews: week beginning: 2nd December 2024

The total budget for this work is £120,000

Please submit your proposal to via email by 17:00 on  Friday 22nd November 2024. 

If you have any questions, or would like to discuss the tender in more depth, please email us, using the subject line ‘Practice guidance for youth participation in evaluation’.