EFFECTIVE
PRACTICES /
LESSONS LEARNED /
As important as "what worked" is "what did
not work." Lessons have been learned from programs and
policies that did not achieve the desired result.
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BARRIERS TO OVERCOME /
There are many barriers to overcome in addressing the issue
of youth employment. This section identifies outline the
barriers youth employment, and the opportunity that overcoming
the barrier brings.
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AREAS OF FOCUS /
The various themes related to youth employment and sustainable
livelihood will be listed and linked to barriers, programs
and policies that correspond to each area, relevant toolkits,
Alliance members, country reports and region.
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DETERMINING
BEST PRACTICES AND LESSONS LEARNED /
The debate about effective versus
best practice is academically contentious - and there is a
definite difference. Here are
some basics on best practice:
The YES Campaign's Global Knowledge Resource (GKR) provides
a central location for what is already considered best and
effective practices in the field of youth employment and
livelihood promotion. This has resulted in a collection of
what others (for example the ILO, OECD, UNDP and USAID) consider
as best or effective practice.
Good practice in the field of youth employment and livelihoods
refers to approaches, which deliver the most beneficial outcomes.
It can be defined in terms of both the impact on the development
of the actual livelihood programme (for example entrepreneurship
training) and the performance of the programs in achieving
its objectives. In this context, impact refers to changes
in capacity and performance at four levels: the individual
level (or in terms of a livelihood index); micro-level or
institutional level; broader changes in society, especially
at a household level; and macro-level changes in the policy
and regulatory environment.
The following are the general performance criteria that
most best practice studies use:
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in terms of the numbers of individuals,
enterprises and organizations reached by an intervention;
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EFFICIENCY
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which refers to the cost and rate
at which inputs are converted to outputs, although
it should be emphasized that 'efficiency' in itself
is not an indicator of the impact of an intervention;
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EFFECTIVENESS
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in achieving the various objectives
of the employment or livelihood interventions, which
often means the extent to which they are relevant to
development goals, including a comparison of impact
with cost;
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SUSTAINABILTY
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which
can be considered, in terms of both the extent to which
the service provided can be financed through client
fees, and the degree of durability of the resulting
changes in the employment / livelihood and at other
levels.
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All of these criteria relate to certain aspects of
youth employment promotion and livelihood support.
However,
there are very few interventions for which it is
possible to
measure performance in relation to all these criteria.
In general,
a combination of factors are considered, especially
based upon availability of information and data.
In essence, the collection of best practice requires field
evaluation and to some extent longitudinal studies to be
truly considered "best". As opposed to this, effective
practices are much more simpler to collect and source, and
are basically a series of "principles" and "processes" of
what works in the field - in other words, the distillation
of lessons learned from the field.
The GKR strives to centralize and collect both best and
effective practices.
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