Summary
After four years of advancing learning through its Youth Workforce Development Learning Agenda, USAID initiated a process in 2022 to review new evidence related to the learning questions. Toward this end, the USAID Center for Education commissioned a team of researchers to conduct a desk review, from which a series of State of the Evidence Updates offers a short synopsis of learning around some of USAID’s current learning agenda themes.
The premise of this brief is that the scaling of YWFD outcomes—and doing so equitably and sustainably—is predicated on some form of change, or series of changes, at the systems level. This State of the Evidence Update highlights examples of transformative changes within and across local systems that have enabled the sustainability and scaling of YWFD outcomes in low- and middle-income countries.