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Decent Work for Youth in Mozambique (DW4YM) - Skills Development and Employment Opportunities for Vulnerable Youth in Northern Mozambique - Final evaluation (NYR)

eval_number:

3386

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3386

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Programme sustainability

category:

Organizational issues

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comments:

Youth beneficiaries receiving skills training, entrepreneurship support, and related employment promotion services.

challenges:

Weak graduate tracking, limited aftercare support, and uneven monitoring systems made it difficult to confirm employment, income, business continuity, and sustainability outcomes.

success:

The evaluation clearly identified the need for stronger follow-up frameworks, providing a practical basis for improving future youth employment and skills programmes.

context:

Staff turnover and institutional changes made post-training tracking and medium-term outcome monitoring inconsistent.

description:

The importance of follow-up and impact measurement systems. A central lesson from the evaluation is that follow-up and impact-measuring systems are essential to verify whether training and enterprise support actually translate into sustained employment, income, and business continuity. While the project delivered substantial training and start-up support, post-training tracking and outcome monitoring were uneven, making it difficult to confirm longer-term results and sustainability across sites and sectors. The report highlights that without structured graduate tracking, aftercare support, and medium-term verification mechanisms, achievements risk remaining output-level rather than demonstrated impact. Strengthening systematic follow-up frameworks is therefore critical for future youth employment and skills programmes. The project showed that training and enterprise support need systematic post-completion follow-up and impact measurement to verify sustained results.

administrative_issues:

Staff turnover and its impact on implementation did not favor structured follow-up, resourcing, and responsibilities for medium-term outcome and impact measurement.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/2395134

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location:

country:

Mozambique

region:

Africa

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eval_title:

Decent Work for Youth in Mozambique (DW4YM) - Skills Development and Employment Opportunities for Vulnerable Youth in Northern Mozambique - Final evaluation (NYR)