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Howard White, Robert Apunyo, Caroline Otike, Thomas Katairo, Martha Kyaterekera, Mary Baremirwe Bekoreire, and Verena Niyadurupola - Campbell Collaboration

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Summary

The mixed methods review summarises findings from:

  1. 80 process and implementation studies from high-income countries in the Youth Futures Foundations’ Youth Employment Evidence and Gap Map (EGM)
  2. robust meta-analyses of quantitative evaluations of interventions to improve youth employment

It includes information about:

  • The impact of common intervention types on youth employment and other outcomes (such as skills development, wellbeing, earnings, programme sustainability)
  • How interventions work
  • Key barriers and facilitators
  • How to implement them effectively (including eligibility, targeting, recruitment, participation, and retention)

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  1. Introduction
  2. Intervention design
  3. How are youth employment intervention meant to work?
  4. Eligibility, targetting and recruitment
  5. Participation and retention
  6. Implementation
  7. Acheivements (outputs)
  8. Evidence of skills development
  9. Evidence of impact on employment and earnings
  10. Impact on welfare
  11.  Sustainability
  12.  Implications for policy and research

The review provides a wide-ranging overview of the available evidence on youth employment interventions, bringing together diverse types of available insights on factors that influence programme and policy design, delivery and implementation.

As a repository resource for policymakers in national, regional and local government, it can support the development of a range of reforms to meet ambitions for young people.

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