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 directly leads to improved life outcomes and livelihoods for young people.
Employment
Income
Gender & Social Outcomes
Business Ownership
Our team tracks impact through rigorous external evaluations to measure medium- and long-term outcomes for young people, coupled with rapid evaluation approaches to establish immediate estimates of impact and facilitate faster learning.
Educate!’s approach has been rigorously evaluated, demonstrating both short- and long-term impacts on young people’s economic and life outcomes
Pre-post evaluations have shown that youth in Educate!’s livelihood bootcamps, delivered to young people unable to access secondary school, experienced:
150 - 208%+ increase in relative income.*
25% absolute increase in business ownership.*
208%+ increase in relative income.**
*3-6 months after participation
**2 years after participation
Working to integrate employment-focused learning into secondary schools, two rigorous external evaluations — including a randomized controlled trial (RCT) — on Educate!’s direct delivery model saw:
Youth earned nearly 2x the income of their peers.
Young people were 44% more likely to have a business, and 50% more likely to be employed.
Girls earned 244% more than their peers who did not participate and were 91% more likely to own a business.
A 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 further translate skills into improved life outcomes four years later, finding graduates:
Demonstrated stronger transferable skills, such as grit, creativity, and self-efficacy.
Achieved higher secondary school graduation rates, increased tertiary enrollment and completion rates, and were more likely to pursue higher-earning majors.
Experienced improved gender equity outcomes, including delayed family formation, decreased early pregnancy, fewer reported incidents of domestic violence, and more egalitarian gender attitudes.
We aim to build a foundation of evidence and insights that can inform sustainable, scalable, evidence-based solutions that improve young people’s lives.
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.
