This assessment was conducted by USAID’s Monitoring and Evaluation Support Program in February of 2015. The assessment targeted Jordanian and Syrian youth in communities with a high prevalence of school dropouts and poverty. The assessment was conducted based on the following criteria: dropout rate, high concentration of Syrian refugees, regions with high poverty rates; and communities selected through critical case. The assessment reached over 800 youth through focus groups in age cohorts of 10-14, 15-18 and 19-24, segregated by age, sex and nationality (Jordanian/Syrian). The assessment did not reveal significant regional differences. It did, however, identify substantial nationality and gender differences in addition to differences between age cohorts.