Measuring youth empowerment

An application to Tunisia

authored by

Micheline Goedhuys, Michael Grimm, Aline Meysonnat, Eleonora Nillesen, Ann Kristin Reitmann

Abstract

Youth empowerment has become a growing concern for achieving sustainable development worldwide. Yet, there is limited evidence on which domains of empowerment are important for youth and how they can be operationalized with indicators for measurement. We propose four domains of youth empowerment with corresponding indicators and use a well-established methodology for constructing a composite index. Using data from a household survey in Tunisia, we assess youth empowerment in the proposed domains and explore their relation to youth well-being. The proposed approach can help monitor youth empowerment in various contexts and evaluate the effectiveness of youth interventions.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Health Economics

External Organisation(s)

Maastricht University
University of Passau
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
University of Washington
United Nations University (UNU)

Type

Article

Journal

Journal of International Development

Volume

36

Pages

1945-1964

No. of pages

20

ISSN

0954-1748

Publication date

15.05.2024

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Geography, Planning and Development, Development

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3886 (Access: Open)