Measuring Success of Youth Livelihood Interventions

This toolkit offers guidance on monitoring and evaluation. The Global Partnership for Youth Employment developed the toolkit to provide an accessible introduction to the topic of monitoring and evaluation and to its practical application to practitioners in the youth livelihood field. The guide helps decide what type of evaluation is appropriate given the characteristics and context of an intervention and provides the basic set of concepts and tools to carry out impact evaluations.

Full guide:

• Measuring Success of Youth Livelihood Interventions: A Practical Guide to Monitoring and Evaluation (English).
• Measuring Success of Youth Livelihood Interventions: A Practical Guide to Monitoring and Evaluation (Arabic).
• Measuring Success of Youth Livelihood Interventions: A Practical Guide to Monitoring and Evaluation (French).

Chapters (English):

• Introduction
• Note 1: Why Evaluate?
• Note 2: Reviewing the Project Design
• Note 3: Establishing a Monitoring System
• Note 4: Choosing the Right Type of Evaluation
• Note 5: Proving Program Impact
• Note 6: Identifying an Appropriate Impact Evaluation Method
• Note 7: A Step-by-Step Guide to Impact Evaluation
• Note 8: Increasing the Relevance of the Impact Evaluation
• Resources & Appendices

Additional resources: 

• Selected Indicators
• IT-based Data Collection Tools
• Selected Funding Opportunities
• Resources for Finding Impact Evaluation Experts
• Estimating the Required Sample Size
• Protocol for Hiring a Survey Firm
• Example of Collateral Products