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Youth Focused Evaluation

Empowering voices of next generation: Practical examples in promoting meaningful engagement of youth in evaluation

Stream: International Evaluation, Diversity, and Specific Populations

Friday, October 25, 2024
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM PST
Location: Portland Ballroom 251
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Abstract Information: Meaningful youth engagement in evaluation offers an opportunity to reflect on development interventions from the perspective of young people themselves, ensuring that these interventions are responsive to their needs. By amplifying youth voice and agency, meaningful youth engagement in evaluation leads to positive development outcomes. It also enhances their technical and leadership capacities in evaluation and strengthens national evaluation capacities. Engaging young people in evaluation recognizes them as change-makers and leaders in building a more sustainable and inclusive world. When empowered in evaluation, youth drive innovation, introduce new ways of working, improve the relevance, credibility and usefulness of evaluations – and ultimately augment the power of evaluation to transform people’s lives. The panel will bring a diverse group of stakeholders on sharing their perspectives and experience on the use of the standards for engaging youth in evaluation, including how to advance its uptake and overcome challenges in engaging youth meaningfully in the evaluation process.