Universalia has been awarded a consultancy to provide support to the World Bank to develop and implement a pilot survey instrument to collect data on youth issues in various Caribbean countries, especially on risk factors that affect youth behavioural outcomes.
The data that this consultancy is tasked to collect will be used to build a profile of at-risk youth in three Caribbean nations: Dominica, Grenada and St Lucia. This profile will be used to develop a risk assessment, which could be used as targeting criteria for specific interventions.
Universalia won the bid from a short-list of five finalists, which included the prestigious Raleigh-Durham Research Triangle. We will work in collaboration with a team of quantitative experts from McGill University, to execute the assignment. This is the first stage of a multi-stage project.