Employment & Youth
Endline Evaluation — BMZ PASEWAY Programme
- Client
- PASEWAY (BMZ)
- Funder
- BMZ — German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation & Development
- Year
- 2022
- Location
- Selected regions, Ghana
- Client type
- Development Partner
- Region(s)
- Multi-region
The assignment
The PASEWAY programme — funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) — sought to improve sustainable employment and income opportunities for women and youth in Ghana through skills training, enterprise support, and market linkages. Devtplan Consult was commissioned to conduct the programme's endline evaluation, measuring change against baseline indicators and assessing the quality and sustainability of employment outcomes produced by the programme.
Our approach
The evaluation design followed a pre-post comparison across treatment and comparison groups, tracking cohorts of PASEWAY graduates and comparable non-beneficiaries across the programme's target regions. Devtplan collected quantitative data through a structured panel follow-up survey of beneficiaries and a matched comparison group, measuring employment status, income, working conditions, and enterprise viability. Qualitative depth interviews and focus group discussions with beneficiaries — stratified by gender, programme stream, and urban/rural location — explored the quality and durability of outcomes. The evaluation also assessed the programme's theory of change and the extent to which its model was replicable and scalable.
The outcome
The endline evaluation found positive evidence of employment and income gains among PASEWAY graduates, with stronger effects in vocational skills tracks and among beneficiaries who also received enterprise development support. The report highlighted that female beneficiaries in urban areas had the most sustained employment outcomes, while rural and agricultural-sector participants faced more significant post-training employment barriers. The evaluation provided BMZ and the implementing partner with specific recommendations for the next programme phase, including design modifications to strengthen sustainability and reach.
Key figures
beneficiaries surveyed at endline (illustrative)
rounds of data collection (baseline + endline)
OECD-DAC evaluation criteria assessed
Figures shown are illustrative for this demo.