Timor-Leste - Youth Development Project (English)

Ratings for the Youth Development Project for Timor-Leste were as follows: outcomes were moderately unsatisfactory; risk to development outcome was substantial; bank performance was moderately satisfactory; borrower performance was moderately unsatisfactory... See More + Ratings for the Youth Development Project for Timor-Leste were as follows: outcomes were moderately unsatisfactory; risk to development outcome was substantial; bank performance was moderately satisfactory; borrower performance was moderately unsatisfactory. There are four key lessons learned from this Youth Development Project (YDP): the first has to do with the relevance of continuing to work with youth as decision-makers in fragile contexts; the second has the importance of conducting targeted analytical work (possible even in a relatively short period of time) to inform design. The third point has relates to the importance of a simple design. While the team acknowledged that a number of complementary operations would potentially need to be put in place to address different aspects of youth vulnerability; and A fourth point has to do with the supervision model available for small grants of the size of YDP.  See Less -