Investing in Youth: Economic Insights from the Youth Ready Program
How can we equip vulnerable youth to thrive in work and life? World Vision Canada’s Youth Ready program offers a powerful approach—pairing personalized coaching with skills development to help young people transition to employment, entrepreneurship, or further education.
Spanning 14 countries between 2019 and 2023, WVC-funded investments in Youth Ready provided youth with a structured, supportive pathway toward self-reliance, grounded in local realities and youth-led goal setting.
To understand the economic value of this investment, World Vision Canada commissioned Limestone Analytics to conduct a rigorous cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of the program. The evaluation compared projected lifetime income gains of Youth Ready participants to program costs, both including and excluding World Vision Canada’s internal (loading) costs.
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