Youth Employment Programs - Independent Evaluation Group
Youth Employment Programs - Independent Evaluation Group Youth Employment Programs - Independent Evaluation Group
Management Action RecordIEG Findings and ConclusionsIEG RecommendationsThe paucity of data limits the ability to assessthe impact of Bank Group support toyouth employment.• The International Finance Corporation (IFC)does not disaggregate employment databy age groups, and the majority of Bankprojects provide no information on youthas a beneficiary group. If reported, outcomeindicators are generally not disaggregated byage.• Few projects or analytic products includetracer studies to track the subsequent employmenthistory of youth.• Bank and IFC operations do not identifywhether youth employment interventionsreached low-income youth. Only one(Uganda) impact evaluation conducts quantileanalysis.• Diagnostic work on youth employment is insufficient.Analytical work does not identifyhow the recommended interventions shouldbe formulated, nor does it include a discussionrelated to cost and fiscal impacts.In client countries where youth employment isa concern to the government or the World Bank/IFC:Apply an evidence-based approach to youthemployment programs.• Improve knowledge about youth employment bysupporting government collection of labor marketoutcome data for youth in relevant surveys.• Monitor the employment situation by agegroups by providing statistics for inclusionin country strategies and Country EconomicMemorandums.• Ensure that World Bank and IFC youth employmentinterventions are informed by relevantanalytical work or due diligence on strategicrelevance which also addresses likely costs ofpossible interventions.• Monitor or evaluate age-specific employmentand earning outcomes in Bank operations,IFC investments, and Analytic and AdvisoryActivities (AAA)/Advisory Services designed toaddress issues of youth employment. This wouldinclude measures on gender and socioeconomicgroups.xxivYouth Employment Programs
Acceptance byManagementWorld Bank: AgreeManagement ResponseWorld Bank: World Bank management recognizes the importance ofmonitoring the situation of young people and the impact of programson young people separately from the situation of the broaderworking-age population. However, the need to monitor outcomesseparately by age group will be a function of the circumstances anddemands of each country. Few countries have data with sufficientdetail to permit disaggregation by age groups, or sufficient frequencyto look at short-run changes in labor market outcomes.Where labor market data are being collected, World Bank managementwill explore ways to strengthen the collaboration with clients and encouragethe collection and dissemination of age-disaggregated statistics,or the use of the ILO KILM. In these countries, World Bank managementplans to monitor age-disaggregated statistics on labor market performanceand use them to inform country strategies and Country EconomicMemorandum (CEMs) as appropriate. Additionally, management will workwith the Development Data Group (DECDG) to ensure that to the extentpossible youth employment data are made available for public downloadon the Development Data Platform. This database already includes boththe employment-to-population ratio and the unemployment rate for15-24-year-olds. Management will also advocate for the publication ofage-disaggregated statistics on employment and activity in countrieswhere these kinds of data are collected and available.Finally, World Bank management is committed to ensure that youthemployment interventions are informed by relevant analytical work,and that teams developing these operations receive guidance asneeded to ensure that youth employment outcomes are included inthe results framework and are properly measured.IFC: AgreeIFC: The items that relate to IFC are in the third and fourth bullets.Regarding the third bullet, IFC will sharpen its due diligence and at entryassessments on its youth employment targeted Investment Services andAdvisory Services interventions, drawing from the knowledge base developedby the World Bank Group, and based on lessons emerging from IFC’songoing jobs study. Early results of case studies show that IFC’s impacton employment is significantly larger than originally anticipated.IFC will continue to inform the strategic relevance of investmentsand advisory services in education by leveraging the knowledge basedeveloped by the World Bank Group on education systems, in particularconcerning the role of the private sector. IFC is tracking the impact onyouth and women in its e4e Initiative for Arab Youth investments inthe MENA region as well as in its Business Edge Programs associatedwith the e4e Initiative for Arab Youth across the region.Management Response xxv
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Acceptance byManagementWorld Bank: AgreeManagement ResponseWorld Bank: World Bank management recognizes the importance ofmonitoring the situation of young people and the impact of programson young people separately from the situation of the broaderworking-age population. However, the need to monitor outcomesseparately by age group will be a function of the circumstances anddemands of each country. Few countries have data with sufficientdetail to permit disaggregation by age groups, or sufficient frequencyto look at short-run changes in labor market outcomes.Where labor market data are being collected, World Bank managementwill explore ways to strengthen the collaboration with clients and encouragethe collection and dissemination of age-disaggregated statistics,or the use of the ILO KILM. In these countries, World Bank managementplans to monitor age-disaggregated statistics on labor market performanceand use them to inform country strategies and Country EconomicMemorandum (CEMs) as appropriate. Additionally, management will workwith the Development Data <strong>Group</strong> (DECDG) to ensure that to the extentpossible youth employment data are made available for public downloadon the Development Data Platform. This database already includes boththe employment-to-population ratio and the unemployment rate for15-24-year-olds. Management will also advocate for the publication ofage-disaggregated statistics on employment and activity in countrieswhere these kinds of data are collected and available.Finally, World Bank management is committed to ensure that youthemployment interventions are informed by relevant analytical work,and that teams developing these operations receive guidance asneeded to ensure that youth employment outcomes are included inthe results framework and are properly measured.IFC: AgreeIFC: The items that relate to IFC are in the third and fourth bullets.Regarding the third bullet, IFC will sharpen its due diligence and at entryassessments on its youth employment targeted Investment Services andAdvisory Services interventions, drawing from the knowledge base developedby the World Bank <strong>Group</strong>, and based on lessons emerging from IFC’songoing jobs study. Early results of case studies show that IFC’s impacton employment is significantly larger than originally anticipated.IFC will continue to inform the strategic relevance of investmentsand advisory services in education by leveraging the knowledge basedeveloped by the World Bank <strong>Group</strong> on education systems, in particularconcerning the role of the private sector. IFC is tracking the impact onyouth and women in its e4e Initiative for Arab <strong>Youth</strong> investments inthe MENA region as well as in its Business Edge <strong>Programs</strong> associatedwith the e4e Initiative for Arab <strong>Youth</strong> across the region.Management Response xxv
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