Moving toward sustainability: findings and recommendations

• In Event: Roundtable Session (Wednesday III)
  In Refereed Round-Table Session: Youth employability at scale: lessons from national TVET systems in Mozambique and Tanzania

Proposal

This presenter will leverage both external and internal perspectives of the Via: Pathways to Work program approaches to enhancing economic opportunities for youth in Mozambique and Tanzania. This presenter will draw on the findings and recommendations from the external Formative Process Evaluation (forthcoming, conducted approximately at mid-point) as well as the internal experience and synthesis of learnings of key stakeholders of the initiative. Insight on the extent to which systems have been influenced by Via will draw on the external evaluation’s findings on the below questions:

Institution Level: What institutional capacities, arrangements, policies and business models have been developed so that young people can be sustainably reached at the scale needed?
1. To what extent has the program strengthened the capacity of the national TVET institutions?
2. To what extent has the program contributed to collaboration between youth serving organizations?
3. To what extent, how, and why have the program’s approaches to working with TVET institutions to achieve systemic change (i.e., the adoption of new curricula and pedagogies and the facilitation of direct engagement between TVETs and the private sector) been effective?
4. How and to what extent have the pedagogies introduced through the program spread through the partner institutions?
5. To what extent are implementing partner staff supportive of the initiatives of the program? What have been the effective mechanisms for incentivizing these staff?
6. What were the most effective approaches to introducing the program’s products and methodologies into the TVET institutions for sustainable integration?

Ecosystem Level: What economic factors, market conditions, and policies have contributed to improved opportunities for young people?
1. How has the program effected systemic change on the institutional levels?
2. To what extent and how did the strategies employed facilitate change? How could they have been more effective?

Operational Questions
1. How has the program’s management (at HQ and for each of the country offices) facilitated or limited the achievement of program goals?
2. To what extent are stakeholders satisfied with the program? How do partners perceive the partnership and the program? What do youth participants think of the program?

The presenter will highlight the recommendations from the evaluation and contribute to participant discussion around how recommendations are being, and can be, applied effectively and relevantly to Via as well as session participants' projects.

Author

• Pia Saunders Campbell, International Youth Foundation