This document presents some of the basic principles and sample indicators of performance management that may help practitioners interested in monitoring and evaluation for youth-workforce development projects that are market driven.
The Open Window funds quality impact evaluations of interventions aimed at improving social and economic development in low and middle-income countries. It accepts proposals on any theme, and there are no pre-established funding limits.
Round Two proposals accepted to November 27, 2009.
This paper reports on the results of testing hypotheses about factors thought to be positively correlated with better nutritional status for rural children in Mali. These factors include:
- Higher agricultural incomes and/or household wealth
- More educated parents
- Mothers who use recommended feeding and childcare practices
- Availability and use of well staffed health facilities
- Parents who are knowledgeable about prevalent childhood diseases
- Use of recommended hygiene and sanitation practices
- Parents’ age, health and genetic attributes
- Location (type of agricultural production system, level of infrastructure, etc.)
The Education Development Center has produced a cross-sectoral assessment of the Youth of Yemen, as part of a EQUIP3 USAID-funded initiative. The Yemen Stability Initiative (YSI) endeavors to address alienation among disaffected, disenfranchised, vulnerable youth ages 15–24. It addresses their difficulties through an array of activities and programs to increase their civic participation, life skills competence, health, violent extremism management and mitigation capabilities, and livelihood opportunities.
The study focused on key youth issues:
Project HOPE’s orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) program, implemented in Mozambique and Namibia, uses a low literacy “Parenting Map” comprised of measurable child-specific indicators across all domains of critical needs for OVC. This map is designed to be used at the household level by project staff and volunteers as a road map for showing a quick but comprehensive snapshot of each child’s well-being, which identifies service needs and provides immediate feedback to caregivers.
The Child Status Index (CSI) is a simple instrument used to assess child well-being through visits with children and their caregivers.
The Women’s Refugee Commission is engaged in a three-year research and advocacy project aimed at improving the effectiveness of economic programming targeting refugee, internally displaced and returning women and youth.
The Child Indicator is a periodic newsletter about the major developments within the child and youth social indicators field.
The web archive makes all editions since 1999 available for download in PDF form.
This guide provides brief descriptions of the ever-increasing number of data and information resources available to those who work in the child and youth indicators field. It is a resource useful to the novice and the veteran, to those who work in governance, advocacy, research, and the media.
