Impact Results

Educate! leverages iterative learning and continuous evaluation to build scalable solutions aimed at unlocking the potential of the world’s youngest continent.

We define success as measurable impact, ensuring our approach leads directly to improved life outcomes and economic livelihoods for young people.

Key Outcomes

Employment

Income

Our Results

Business Ownership

Gender Equity and Social Outcomes

We evaluate impact through rigorous external evaluations to measure medium- and long-term outcomes for young people, coupled with rapid evaluation methodologies to establish more immediate estimates of impact and ensure we're hitting our impact benchmarks

Our solutions have been rigorously evaluated, demonstrating meaningful impact on young people’s economic livelihoods and life outcomes, especially for young women and girls.

Multiple pre-post evaluations of Educate!’s livelihood bootcamps, delivered to youth unable to access secondary school, demonstrated*:

  • 50 - 208%+ increase in relative income

  • 25% absolute increase in business ownership

Two external evaluations, including a randomized controlled trial (RCT), conducted on Educate!’s work integrating employment-focused learning into secondary schools, demonstrated:

  • 2x the income of their peers

  • 44% increase in business ownership

  • 50% increase in employment

Girls earned 244% more than their peers who did not participate, were 91% more likely to own a business, and increased employment by 113%.

*Results detail impact 3-6 months to 2 years following participation

An additional 4-year follow-on evaluation conducted in partnership with researchers from the University of California-Berkeley, the World Bank, and Innovations for Poverty Action, showed Educate! graduates translated skills into improved life outcomes, finding that youth: 

  • Demonstrated stronger transferable skills, such as grit, creativity, and self-efficacy

  • Achieved higher secondary school graduation rates, increased university enrollment and completion rates, and were more likely to pursue higher-earning majors

  • Experienced improved gender equity outcomes, including strengthened decision making in family formation and reduced early pregnancy, fewer reported incidents of domestic violence, and more egalitarian gender attitudes overall


These large and durable shifts in skills, coupled with significant improvements in education and gender-related outcomes, show that participating in Educate! can set young people up for improved economic livelihoods and broader well-being throughout their lives.

We are building a foundation of evidence, learnings, and insights to inform scalable, evidence-based youth employment solutions that meaningfully improve young people’s lives.

To measure impact, Educate! has partnered with researchers from the University of California, Berkeley; Innovations for Poverty Action; Oregon State University; and the World Bank, with funding from the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth, & Development Office (FCDO), and the Global Innovation Fund (GIF), among others.