Measuring Success of Youth Livelihood Interventions

In its 2007 World Development Report: Development and the Next Generation, the World Bank underscored the world’s historic “youth bulge” of 1.3 billion young people and the urgent need for governments and the development community to invest in this younger generation. The report focused on the pivotal stages of life that young people must navigate successfully to unleash their extraordinary potential. It also stressed the critical importance of identifying and sharing best practices, tested policies, and scalable lessons learned so that those investments can have the greatest possible impact, now and in the future.