Impact Results
Evidence-based Experiences for Measurable Impact
Our local experts work with youth, schools, and governments to design and deliver data-driven education and employment solutions which target the skills proven most critical for success.
Two rigorous external evaluations, including a Randomized Control Trial (RCT) and a Quasi-Experimental Evaluation (PSM) found that towards the end of secondary school, participants earn nearly double the income of their peers and young women earn even more.
Supporting youth as they start and run real businesses builds the essential soft/transferable skills and hard business skills for greater economic opportunity.
A 4-year follow-on RCT revealed that Educate! graduates are more likely to graduate from secondary, enroll in tertiary, and 14% more likely to pursue business and STEM degrees. These effects are even more pronounced among women at 22%.
Youth who participate in Educate! are more likely to graduate from secondary school, enroll in further education, perform better in tertiary, and pursue business and STEM degrees, especially young women.
A 4-year follow-on RCT revealed that Educate! has a statistically significant impact on secondary completion. The increase in the likelihood of women completing secondary school was enough to virtually close the gender gap, and female Educate! graduates are 25% more likely to enroll in university.
Male and female graduates of Educate! challenge society’s gender roles and norms, giving all youth the tools to tackle the heightened barriers young women face at school, at home, and in the workplace.
Participating in Educate! helps to widen young people’s long-term views of what’s possible for their lives, giving them a gender-sensitive space to learn and practice the most essential skills needed to make reproductive decisions for themselves and their families.
Educate! graduates have more equitable views of gender and more leadership skills to demonstrate in their communities, making them more effective environmental changemakers — a role women naturally succeed in worldwide.
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Educate! invests deeply in rigorous external evaluations.
Our experiences have demonstrated results in areas linked with improved life outcomes.
External evaluations, including a randomized controlled trial (RCT), found that toward the end of secondary, participants earn nearly double the income of their peers.
A follow-up RCT found that four years later, youth see major improvement in skills, educational attainment, and gender equity outcomes, including a 25% increase in university enrollment for women, 21% increase in delaying having a child, and 18% decrease in inter-partner violence for women.
This RCT was conducted in partnership with researchers from the University of California-Berkeley, the World Bank, and Innovations for Poverty Action.
Girls achieve even greater results.
Long-term research conducted with generous support from:
