High School Youth Entrepreneurship and Leadership Training in Uganda

This project studies the long-term impacts of Educate!, an innovative upper-secondary school-based intervention in Uganda designed to enhance adolescents’ technical and soft-skills and to improve their success in formal employment and entrepreneurial activities. This research speaks to key existing knowledge gaps: the Educate! intervention is longer in duration than typical training programs and also explicitly integrates soft-skills and social leadership into its curriculum, embedding these skills earlier in life, before youth begin their working lives. The study aims to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying mechanisms through which the intervention operates and yields lasting impacts on economic and social outcomes. These results have the potential to inform the implementation of the program, which is currently operational in over 400 Ugandan secondary schools (representing more than 15 percent of the country’s schools).