Youth Employment Programs - Independent Evaluation Group
Youth Employment Programs - Independent Evaluation Group Youth Employment Programs - Independent Evaluation Group
Table D.13 Frequently Used Youth Employment-Related Prior Actions in 15DPOs, by Region (number of actions used by 15 DPOs)Prior actions supporting youth employment programs AFR ECA LAC MENA SAR TotalMacroeconomic policies (“M”)Economic growth 14 10 3 11 14 52Investment climate (“I”)Improve the business environment and investment climate 0 2 0 0 0 2Improve regulations to provide incentives to firms in hiringyoung people0 0 0 1 0 1Support to start up businesses 0 0 0 1 0 1Labor market institutions (“L”)Improve information on the labor market 0 0 1 4 0 5Counseling job search skills, matching and placement 0 2 1 1 0 4Program for overseas employment for young people 0 0 0 1 0 1Education and skills (“E”)Improve the quality of formal secondary and post-secondaryvocational education and training21 6 3 0 0 30Provide information on training opportunities 0 0 0 2 0 2Expand/improve work-based learning in post-secondary andsecondary vocational education and trainingFoster private sector participation in education and training(including governance, curricula and occupational standards)0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 1 0 1Social protection (“S”)Social protection 0 0 8 2 0 10Non-MILESHealthcare 1 2 1 0 1 5Total 36 22 18 24 15 115Source: IEG portfolio review based on World Bank data.Note: AFR= Africa; DPO= Development Policy Operation; ECA= Europe and Central Asia; LAC= Latin America and Caribbean;MENA= Middle East and North Africa; SAR= South Asia Region.Few impact evaluations were conducted and they cost considerably more thanESW. Only 6 of 90 projects in the portfolio include an impact evaluation. Animpact evaluation costs between $640,000 in Uganda and $780,000 in Kenya,which is significantly above the average cost of economic and sector work. Itinvolves additional local data collection and analysis for which teams tend tohire researchers from American universities. Also, impact evaluations tendto be financed by different sources, including the Bank’s operational budgetand various trust funds (including the Spanish Impact Evaluation Fund(SIEF), the Bank-Netherlands Partnership Program (BNPP), and so on). As aresult, the costs of impact evaluations are hidden under several tasks and nottransparently available on the Bank’s project webpage.116 Youth Employment Programs
Figure D.3% of operationswith interventions9080706050403020100TechnicalskillsSkills Trained through Projects, by Intervention CategoryEntrepreneurialBasicskillsSource: IEG portfolio review based on World Bank data.Note: IT= information technology.Fostering job creation/work opportunities (I) (n = 53)School to work transition and job mobility (L) (n = 74)Skill development and labor market relevance of skills (E) (n = 76)IT skillsSoftskillsEnglishEconomic and Sector Work on Youth EmploymentThe World Bank has undertaken analysis and promoted knowledge sharingto encourage youth employment and skills building. Between 2001 and2011, World Bank teams prepared 34 pieces of economic and sector work andcarried out 25 technical assistance activities related to “improving labormarket outcomes.” Most of this work (85 percent) was done after 2006. For thepurpose of this evaluation, 21 ESW products with a youth employment focuswere reviewed, all of them published since 2005. 3 (See appendix B for thelist of 21 ESW products included). The Bank spent $4.4 million on 18 of thesereports. 4 The average cost of these studies was about $245,000 each, and theytook 12 to 24 months (depending on the need for additional surveys) to gofrom concept note to distribution to the government.The ESW products were reviewed with respect to four dimensions:• Strategic relevance comprising timeliness, government ownership andstrategic coherence;• Quality of contextual and diagnostic analysis including coverage of relevantfactors, data, hypotheses testing, and clarity of presentation;• Quality of conclusions and recommendations for youth employment withregard to macroeconomic conditions, the investment climate, labor marketinstitutions, education, and social protection; and• Dialogue and dissemination, including consultation with stakeholders,public availability of the report and national awareness, and the degreeof follow-up.Appendix D: The World Bank Portfolio for Youth Employment 117
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Figure D.3% of operationswith interventions9080706050403020100TechnicalskillsSkills Trained through Projects, by Intervention CategoryEntrepreneurialBasicskillsSource: IEG portfolio review based on World Bank data.Note: IT= information technology.Fostering job creation/work opportunities (I) (n = 53)School to work transition and job mobility (L) (n = 74)Skill development and labor market relevance of skills (E) (n = 76)IT skillsSoftskillsEnglishEconomic and Sector Work on <strong>Youth</strong> <strong>Employment</strong>The World Bank has undertaken analysis and promoted knowledge sharingto encourage youth employment and skills building. Between 2001 and2011, World Bank teams prepared 34 pieces of economic and sector work andcarried out 25 technical assistance activities related to “improving labormarket outcomes.” Most of this work (85 percent) was done after 2006. For thepurpose of this evaluation, 21 ESW products with a youth employment focuswere reviewed, all of them published since 2005. 3 (See appendix B for thelist of 21 ESW products included). The Bank spent $4.4 million on 18 of thesereports. 4 The average cost of these studies was about $245,000 each, and theytook 12 to 24 months (depending on the need for additional surveys) to gofrom concept note to distribution to the government.The ESW products were reviewed with respect to four dimensions:• Strategic relevance comprising timeliness, government ownership andstrategic coherence;• Quality of contextual and diagnostic analysis including coverage of relevantfactors, data, hypotheses testing, and clarity of presentation;• Quality of conclusions and recommendations for youth employment withregard to macroeconomic conditions, the investment climate, labor marketinstitutions, education, and social protection; and• Dialogue and dissemination, including consultation with stakeholders,public availability of the report and national awareness, and the degreeof follow-up.Appendix D: The World Bank Portfolio for <strong>Youth</strong> <strong>Employment</strong> 117
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