Youth Employment Programs - Independent Evaluation Group

Table D.7Prevalence of Project Objectives, by Sector Board (percent) (cont.)Percent of projects with objectiveEducation(n=37)SocialProtection(n=26)Finance andPrivate SectorDevelopment(n=8)EconomicPolicy(n=5)SocialDevelopment(n=14)Employment programs 0 23 13 0 7Productivity 3 4 25 0 7Efficiency 19 15 13 0 0Supply of skills (E) 97 35 25 20 36Relevant skills building 81 35 25 20 29Improve technical and vocational educationtraining62 4 0 0 14Objective targeted to individual attributes 35 50 0 20 43Youth 16 23 0 0 14Disadvantaged, vulnerable or disabled 11 19 0 20 14Gender 5 0 0 0 7Poor 5 23 0 20 29Equity 16 8 0 0 0Source: IEG portfolio review based on World Bank data.Note: n=the number of projects.Youth as a Target Group in Project Objectives andInterventionsYouth are often not mentioned as a target group in project objectives. Aboutone-third of the reviewed operations mentioned a target group in theirobjective, and only 16 percent explicitly targeted youth in their objectives.Even fewer (3 percent) targeted young women. Young people were morefrequently targeted over time (table D.9). Social Protection-led operationsmore often cite youth as a target group than other operations, whereas noneof the FPD-led operations had objectives targeting a specific group. Youthare most often targeted in Latin America and the Caribbean (47 percent), butthey were not targeted in any of the operations in MENA and ECA. However,if not targeted in the objective, project documents still describe the targetgroups for their components; here youth are targeted.Few projects collect indicators to assess the effect on target groups. Of thethree projects with a gender emphasis in their objectives, only the TechnicalEducation III Project in India (P050658) has followed through and targetedinterventions to young women and collected relevant indicators.110 Youth Employment Programs