World Bank--Global Youth Conference 2008 Academy for Educational Development Youth Development for Permanent Transformation & Sustained Employability Critical Design & Evaluation Issues the Case of Programa Para o Futuro (PPF) Eric Rusten, Ph.D. Academy for Educational Development

World Bank--Global Youth Conference 2008 Academy for Educational Development Programa Para o Futuro 1.0  2003 Pilot youth employability program  50 disadvantaged youth, half young women  Included fist offenders  4 hrs/day, 5 days/week for, a years  Integrated 4-part curriculum & project based learning, emphasis on ICTs

World Bank--Global Youth Conference 2008 Academy for Educational Development PPF Results  100% completion rate  88% employability at graduation  5 yrs later, 93% continuous full–time employment &/or self-employment  88% completed tertiary education  30% started social programs  All have robust professional network  Permanent transformation

World Bank--Global Youth Conference 2008 Academy for Educational Development PPF 2.0 – Replicating & Scaling  Economic Empowerment for young Women – Brazil (Nike Foundation)  Employability for Unemployed Graduates – South Africa (Microsoft)  Employability for Orphans & Vulnerable Children – Mozambique (USAID)

World Bank--Global Youth Conference 2008 Academy for Educational Development Basic Design Principals  Do NO harm!  Set high targets  Safe environment where youth take risks to transform  Focus on learning not training; outcomes not inputs  Provide time for transformationtime for transformation  Leverage the power of relationships & professional networking – eMentoringeMentoring  Provide social, physical & psychological support  Actively involve parents

World Bank--Global Youth Conference 2008 Academy for Educational Development Basic Design Principals  Project-based & experiential learning  4-part holistic curriculum Integrate for greater impact 4-part holistic curriculumIntegrate for greater impact  Multiple positive feed-back loops  Market Driven (MOM)  Use ICT as a means and an end  Treat youth as we expect them to become  Entrepreneurship skills & B2B mentoring  Simulate the world-of-work

World Bank--Global Youth Conference 2008 Academy for Educational Development Evaluation Challenge  Conventional approaches are inadequate  Simple input targets, e.g., hours trained, fail to capture blended value creation & ROI  Rates of immediate employment are not very useful – perpetual employability is!  Modest targets & measures of success make it acceptable for many youth to fail  Lack of long-term tracking makes real success or failure invisible

World Bank--Global Youth Conference 2008 Academy for Educational Development Moving Beyond Evaluation “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” Grants & Funding – vs. – Investments How investments differ from grants and funding?  Investors expect positive returns  Investors want recurrent returns  Investors have long time horizons  When all stakeholders are fully invested, greater value creation becomes possible  Investors should be part of the change Social Return on Investment (SROI) a Viable Alternative to Evaluation

World Bank--Global Youth Conference 2008 Academy for Educational Development SROI – Results in a Complex Mix of:  Creating monetary & blended value  Eliminating economic & societal costs  Creating positive models of success  Breaking intergenerational poverty  Increasing education attainment  Enabling permanent transformation  Creating personal & societal economic wealth  Increasing political and civic engagement  Enabling positive self-esteem & outlook  Improving organizational & project capacity  Building public awareness of what is needed

World Bank--Global Youth Conference 2008 Academy for Educational Development Some SROI Principals  A large community of stakeholders essential  Outcomes/impacts/results or blended value maps help explain how change occurs  Attribute outcomes from others and displacement to account for what would have happened anyway  Include material impacts on public policy, best practices, local values, stakeholders’ investments and financial resources  Financial proxies ensure that data is relevant – monetization  Account for negative results that did not or will not happen because of the program A Social & Financial Audit

World Bank--Global Youth Conference 2008 Academy for Educational Development Making SROI Happen  Youth & project team active participants  SROI Analysis part of project design  Use existing sources of data  SROI methods part of learning program  Continuous data gathering  Create alumni associations  Involve past participants in new initiatives  Use digital tools, cell phone trees, etc.  Fully invested participants stay invested  Create new mgmt. routines & culture

World Bank--Global Youth Conference 2008 Academy for Educational Development Concluding Thoughts  How to monetize all benefits? A call to action!  Need a critical mass of users to shift donors  Remove excuses for poor performance  Raise awareness in society to achieve larger scale and permanent change  Change the game not just the rules  Youth must be full stakeholders – they are engine for change – it can’t happen to them … it can only happen with them

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