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UNICEF: Endline Evaluation of the Adolescents and Youth Life Skills Programme (Maharati)

January 2025

Jordan has one of the world's youngest populations, but youth unemployment remains a major challenge, hitting 46.1% in 2022. Limited access to education, training, and jobs hampers young people's transition to higher education and the workforce. Refugees and women face even greater hurdles, with half of Syrian youth refugees unable to access secondary education.

To address these challenges, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Jordan Country Office (JCO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth (MoY), with their implementing partner Generations for Peace (GFP) implemented a life skills programme, the Maharati programme, from 2018-2022. This endline evaluation, commissioned by UNICEF JCO and conducted by Samuel Hall, had two main objectives:

From an accountability perspective – to measure the extent to which the planned results were achieved and the overall goal and objectives met.
From a learning perspective – to determine why planned and intended results were attained or not, to draw lessons and propose good practices and recommendations for learning, scale-up and replication.

The evaluation focuses on the Maharati programme’s activities from January 2018 to June 2022, implemented by the MoY in its youth centres across all governorates in Jordan. The findings, conclusions, lessons learned and recommendations aim to inform decision-making and programme improvement for UNICEF and MoY.

Read Full report here.

Samuel HallJanuary 8, 2025UNICEF, JORDAN, youth, unemployment, COVID-19, YOUTH REFUGEES

FAO: Toolkit & Global Lessons Learned for the Sustainable Reintegration of Return Migrants in Rural Areas

April 2023

Samuel Hall conducted a research study for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to undertake a two-part effort to inform policy and programming on sustainable reintegration in rural areas in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. The two outputs of this collaboration include the present lessons learned report that offers the framework, and the associated Rural Reintegration Toolkit that presents the tools for practitioners to improve policy and programming on sustainable reintegration in rural areas.

The aim of the global lessons learned report is to provide a roadmap for collective action in support of returnees in rural areas and rural communities across a range of development settings. While the toolkit aims to support local stakeholders and actors in agrifood systems to integrate rural returnees into programmes and other initiatives to develop the agrifood sector. It provides resources to design and implement programmes and projects to facilitate the reintegration of returnees in rural areas.

Download Global Lessons Learned Report Here

Download Toolkit Here

Global, Implementation Research, Migration & DisplacementSamuel HallApril 28, 2023Pandemic, COVID-19, Reintegration, Rural areas, agricultural sector

MIGNEX: Migration Relevant Policies in Tunisia

February 2023

Samuel Hall interviewed 14 policy experts between May and October 2021. as a part of our research with MIGNEX (Aligning Migration Management and the Migration–Development Nexus) a collaborative research effort to tackle the challenges of global migration with a long-term vision for better outcomes. Expert interviews highlighted that there is no official migration policy in Tunisia.

The paper co-authored by Samuel Hall analyses migration management regulations and practices in Tunisia and identifies opportunities for improved approaches, drawing upon the data collected from the MIGNEX policy review.

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Samuel HallFebruary 27, 2023COVID-19, Libya, Tunisia, MIGNEX, MIGRATION

REF: South Sudan’s Decades of Displacement: Understanding Return and Questioning Reintegration

February 2023

Samuel Hall in collaboration with Research and Evidence Facility (REF) in this study, explores the experiences of displacement, return and reintegration among South Sudanese refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons (IDPs).

The overall objective of the research is to understand the factors influencing displacement within and from South Sudan, and return to South Sudan from refugee hosting areas. The study proposes to integrate provisions for cross border mobility, invest in area-based, community-based and locally driven peace and development initiatives among others.

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