Linking Skills to Improvements in Life Outcomes
Results from Our Follow-on RCT in Uganda
Our latest external evaluation revealed that 3.5 years after graduating from secondary, Educate! participants are better off than their peers in key areas linked to improved life outcomes: soft skills, education, and gender equity.
Among other benefits, Educate! leads to improved soft skills, increased secondary school completion rates, more youth selecting STEM and business majors, delayed fertility, and declines in intimate partner violence.
From what we’ve seen, this is the first evaluation in Africa to causally link soft skills to improvements in life outcomes related to education and gender.
This randomized controlled trial (RCT) was conducted in partnership with researchers from the University of California-Berkeley, the World Bank, and Innovations for Poverty Action.
“These results command attention as successful interventions of this type do not abound.”
- Luis Benveniste, Practice Director for Education Global Practice, World Bank
Students who participate in the Educate! Experience demonstrate significantly improved outcomes four years after completing the program, including:
Key Results
Large & lasting impacts on soft skills
Educate! participants show statistically significant improvement in areas like creativity, grit, pro-social attitudes, and self-efficacy.
Greater educational attainment
Educate! Scholars are more likely to graduate from high school, select higher-earning majors, complete higher education studies, and earn higher cumulative grade point averages.
Improved gender-related outcomes
Educate! participants have a lower likelihood of ever having been pregnant, have fewer children, report fewer incidences of domestic violence, and an increased likelihood of feeling as though they can work outside the home.