Educate! rigorously measures impact and is proven to improve youth life outcomes.

We’re committed to doing what works: utilizing evidence to develop and run skills-based models, continuously capturing efficacy data, processing it quickly, and integrating lessons learned to optimize quality and cost.

Educate!’s Monitoring & Evaluation Team plays a critical role in our product development process from pilot to scale, increasing the rigor and scope of the evaluation along the way. As we create new solutions for youth, the M&E Team supports our research and development through Rapid Impact Assessments — experiments to test the design and delivery of new solutions. This allows us to learn, almost immediately, what is working and how to help us target the most successful elements and generate the greatest impact.

Once we can validate a new model’s impact on youth, we work to improve its efficiency, then work to scale the proven solution. At that point, our monitoring system ensures program quality and progress towards our targets by tracking 20+ key performance indicators (KPIs) on a regular basis and feeding data back into a dashboard in real time. Our evaluation philosophy employs rigorous studies to understand our impact on a longer-term basis, including an external randomized controlled trial and quasi-experimental evaluation.

Monitoring and Learning Tools

Evaluation Philosophy

Educate!’s impact measurement philosophy relies on periodic, rigorous external evaluations to measure medium- and long-term outcomes. Our model has been extensively evaluated, including through two randomized controlled trials of our programs in Uganda and Rwanda. For these evaluations, Educate! is partnering with researchers from the University of California, Berkeley; Innovations for Poverty Action; Oregon State University; and the World Bank, with funding from the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID), and the Global Innovation Fund (GIF), among others.

These evaluations are examining our impact on the following outcomes: 21st-century skills development, educational attainment, community involvement and leadership, as well as economic outcomes

Target Outcomes

Educate! monitors four target outcomes to determine measurable impact of our model: