Community-driven development (CDD) isan approach emphasizing local control over planning and aninvestment resource offers important advantages for engagingyoung people. The World Bank's portfolio of CDDprojects provides a rich repository of experiences of howthis approach is being adapted to enhance the inclusion ofyoung people. This paper synthesizes the findings of aglobal stocktaking on CDD and youth. The study draws from auniverse of over 60 active, planned, or recently closed CDDyouth projects across all regions in which the Bankoperates. Significant diversity exists among these projectsin terms of the extent of youth focus; size, scale, andscope; contexts and conditions to which they respond; andobjectives and desired outcomes. Youth engagement isexamined through three interlinked dimensions of youthdevelopment: (1) endowments or the accumulation of humancapital assets; (2) employment and economic opportunities;and (3) empowerment, encompassing the concepts ofparticipation, voice, and agency. The framework links eachdimension to a domain of inclusion services, markets, andspaces within which individuals and groups take part insociety. The stocktake reveals that CDD projects arecontributing in significant and innovative ways to the youthdevelopment agenda in all three spheres, and offersreflections and opportunities for each dimension.
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