Apunyo Robert, White Howard, Otike Caroline, Katairo Thomas, Puerto Sussana, Gardiner Drew, Kinengyere Alison A, Eyers John, Saran Ashrita, Obuku Ekwaro A
Africa Centre for Systematic Reviews and Knowledge Translation, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Makerere University College of Health Sciences Kampala Uganda.
Campbell Collaboration New Delhi India.
Campbell Syst Rev. 2021 Oct 18;17(4):e1196. doi: 10.1002/cl2.1196. eCollection 2021 Dec.
The research question guiding the production of the youth employment evidence and gap map (EGM) is stated as follows: What is the nature and extent of the evidence base of impact evaluations and systematic reviews on youth employment programmes in the world? The primary objective of is to catalogue impact evaluations and systematic reviews on youth employment interventions to enhance discoverability of evidence by decision makers, development patterners and researchers, so as to promote evidence-based decision making in programming and delivery of youth employment initiatives. This evidence gap map is also a primary input into the implementation of Mastercard Foundation's strategy titled "Africa Works: Mastercard Foundation Strategy 2018-2030", which points out sharing of evidence-based knowledge and innovation with stakeholders as a key strategy to be used (Mastercard Foundation). The time frame for the development of the youth EGM will run from the last quarter of 2019 to December 2020. The five secondary objectives are: (i) To construct a framework for the classification of youth employment effectiveness studies. The objective will be achieved through the development of an intervention and outcome framework using an engaged consultative process involving the review team, Mastercard Foundation and other stakeholders. (ii) To identify available evidence, and clusters of evidence, including its quality rating. This will involve activities such as identification of studies using a standardised study search strategy, screening and coding of studies in EPPI Reviewer 4, which is a web-based software program for production of reviews. (iii) To create a map of youth employment effectiveness studies equipped with an appealing user-friendly web-based search content visualisation using interactive mapping software. To achieve this object, data coded in EPPI Reviewer 4 will be exported to another software (EPPI mapper) which is designed for generating EGMs. (iv) To produce a narrative report of the youth employment EGM. This will be achieved through analysis of data in EPPI Reviewer 4 and report writing. To disseminate the EGM to users to increase awareness to support evidence-informed decision-making across countries. We will achieve this objective by organising dissemination workshops, participating in conferences and hosting the evidence and gap on our websites.
指导青年就业证据与差距地图（EGM）编制工作的研究问题表述如下：全球青年就业项目影响评估和系统评价的证据基础的性质和范围是什么？其主要目标是对青年就业干预措施的影响评估和系统评价进行编目，以提高决策者、发展规划者和研究人员对证据的可发现性，从而促进青年就业举措规划和实施过程中的循证决策。这一证据差距地图也是万事达卡基金会名为“非洲可行：万事达卡基金会2018 - 2030年战略”实施工作的主要投入内容，该战略指出与利益相关者分享循证知识和创新是一项关键战略（万事达卡基金会）。青年EGM的编制时间框架为2019年最后一个季度至2020年12月。五个次要目标如下：（i）构建青年就业成效研究分类框架。该目标将通过利用涉及审查团队、万事达卡基金会及其他利益相关者的参与式协商过程，制定干预和结果框架来实现。（ii）识别现有证据及证据群组，包括其质量评级。这将涉及使用标准化研究搜索策略识别研究、在EPPI Reviewer 4（一款用于生成综述的基于网络的软件程序）中对研究进行筛选和编码等活动。（iii）使用交互式绘图软件创建一个配备有吸引人的、用户友好的基于网络搜索内容可视化的青年就业成效研究地图。为实现这一目标，在EPPI Reviewer 4中编码的数据将被导出到另一款专为生成EGM而设计的软件（EPPI mapper）中。（iv）编制青年就业EGM的叙述性报告。这将通过对EPPI Reviewer 4中的数据进行分析和撰写报告来实现。（v）向用户传播EGM，以提高认识，支持各国基于证据的决策。我们将通过组织传播研讨会、参加会议以及在我们的网站上展示证据和差距来实现这一目标。
