Intentional youth engagement is a priority for the Passages Project and Growing up GREAT! is putting this into practice in the DRC by training very young adolescents (VYAs) to carry out a youth-led evaluation to explore changes since project start. In this youth-led evaluation, VYAs will be trained to develop research questions, test the tools, carry out data collection, analyze the findings, and disseminate results with mentorship and support from older youth researchers and program staff.