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Global Development 2.0 — Jobs for the AI Era

Development outcomes, measured in jobs and wages — not people trained.

 

Global Development 2.0 is Correlation One's workforce development practice for the AI era — partnering with the World Bank, UN agencies, and multilateral institutions to deliver programs priced on verified jobs and wages, at private-sector pace, evaluated to the standard of a J-PAL randomized controlled trial.

Outcomes ledger INDEPENDENTLY MEASURED
1,500+
Jobs created — Tech for Jobs, Jordan
RCT-DESIGNED
2×
Employment rate at endline vs baseline — Cyber Advance, Jordan & Egypt
INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED
2,000+
Graduates — DS4A / Colombia, with MinTIC
30,000+ APPLICANTS
16K+
Program graduates across 10 countries with Amazon
SINCE 2019

Programs delivered with and for

USAID U.S. Department of State SoftBank MinTIC · Gov. of Colombia MoDEE · Jordan Amazon
1.2B
Young people reaching working age in developing economies over the next decade
420M
Jobs projected to be created in those economies over the same period
~800M
The gap. Closing it is now the multilateral system's defining mission — and ours.
Source: World Bank Group jobs agenda→ 
What is Global Development 2.0?

Your institutions have redefined the mission. The implementing ecosystem hasn't caught up.

 

Global Development 2.0 is our answer: the jobs agenda, rebuilt for the AI era. The World Bank has made job creation core to everything it does. UN agencies are converging on decent work and economic empowerment. Shareholders and boards are demanding results-based instruments and private capital mobilization.

Yet most implementation still runs through a legacy model: donor-funded, activity-billed, overhead-heavy, and reporting on inputs — people enrolled, workshops held — rather than the outcome your mandate is measured by. AI is transforming labor markets faster than that model can move.

The legacy model

  • Success = people trained
  • 100% donor-funded
  • Activity-based billing
  • Indirect rates above 40%
  • Multi-year procurement cycles
  • Impact asserted, rarely proven

The Correlation One model

  • Success = jobs and wages
  • Private-sector co-investment
  • Performance-based contracts
  • Radically lean cost structure
  • Launch in months, not years
  • Evidence is the product
What we do

Three practice areas. One metric: jobs.

 
ADVISORY

Advisory

We help governments and funders understand their workforce reality before they invest in changing it. Our national skills benchmarking and AI-readiness diagnostics are built on real assessment data — what people can actually do — not survey self-reports.

  • National skills benchmarking — assessment-based diagnostics
  • AI workforce readiness — displacement risk & opportunity mapping
  • Program & measurement design — outcomes-based from day one
IMPLEMENTATION

Global AI Workforce Programs

National-scale training-to-jobs programs that connect graduates to real employment — including remote work that breaks the geographic ceiling on opportunity. Recruit, assess, train, place, and measure — end to end.

  • Tech for Jobs & Cyber Advance — Jordan & Egypt, 1,500+ jobs
  • DS4A / Colombia — with MinTIC, since 2019
  • DS4A / Latin America — launched with SoftBank, 2020
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Thought Leadership

We publish what we measure. Our research turns proprietary assessment and outcome data into public evidence on what actually works in workforce development — for funders, ministries, and the field.

  • Technical Skills Benchmarking Reports — published 2023
  • Evidence from RCT-designed programs — what works, for whom, at what cost
  • AI & the future of work in emerging markets — ongoing research
Track record

Seven years of delivery. Real outcomes, on four continents.

 

Every figure below comes from participant-level data. Where it matters most, impact is measured against a counterfactual: Tech for Jobs carries a randomized controlled trial run by MIT's J-PAL — the evidentiary standard your own evaluation offices hold up as best practice, and one almost no implementer volunteers to be judged by.

2019 — PRESENT

DS4A / Colombia — with MinTIC A nationwide data and AI skills program with Colombia's Ministry of Information & Communication Technology. Merit-based admission, learners from 45+ cities, and career fairs connecting graduates to 300+ employers including Bancolombia, Rappi, and Mercado Libre.

2,000+ graduates from 30,000+ applicants
2020

DS4A / Latin America — with SoftBank AI and data science training across eight Latin American countries, sponsored by SoftBank — with graduates placed directly into roles at portfolio companies in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, including Uber, Rappi, and Loggi.

4 hiring markets private-sector funded
2022 — PRESENT

Tech for Jobs — Jordan The largest training-to-jobs program in Jordan, funded by USAID, targeting economic opportunity for 4,000 Jordanians through data analytics training and remote-work placement with global employers. Its impact evaluation is a randomized controlled trial conducted by MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) — one of only 17 RCTs USAID ran globally.

1,500+ jobs created to date RCT-designed measurement Program page →
2023 — PRESENT

Cyber Advance for Women in MENA — Jordan & Egypt A 20-week cybersecurity training-to-jobs program for women, funded by the U.S. Department of State. An independent endline evaluation by research firm Mindset (June 2026) found the employment rate among completers nearly doubled — from 35% at baseline to 66% at endline — with 80% in paid work since program start, an 87% CompTIA Security+ pass rate among exam takers, and median earnings up 59% in Egypt and 15% in Jordan for those employed at baseline.

35% → 66% employed independent evaluation, n = 97 completers Program page →
2023

Technical Skills Benchmarking Reports Published national and program-level skills benchmarking research — including the Palestine Technical Skills Benchmarking Report — measuring what workforces can actually do, based on Correlation One's assessment platform.

Published research assessment-based evidence
ONGOING

Government partnership — Jordan's Ministry of Digital Economy & Entrepreneurship An active working relationship with MoDEE spanning national digital skills initiatives and ministerial engagement on Jordan's AI workforce agenda — grounded in our on-the-ground Jordan delivery team.

Active engagement national digital skills agenda
Gender outcomes by design

Tech for Jobs was built around women's workforce participation — using remote work with global employers to remove the transit, childcare, and mobility barriers that keep women out of the labor force. And the effects reach beyond employment: the independent Cyber Advance evaluation found participants' involvement in major household financial decisions rose from 34% to 52% between baseline and endline. If your operation carries gender targets, we don't treat them as a safeguard. We treat them as the design brief.

Why funders trust us

Endorsed by the people who fund evidence — and covered by the press that holds it accountable.

 
I am enthusiastic about Correlation One's mission and model…
Dean Karlan
Chief Economist, USAID — on the Tech for Jobs randomized controlled trial
…one of 17 randomized control trials globally for USAID.
Richard Chen
Director, Economic Development & Energy Office, USAID/Jordan
Independent third-party evaluation · June 2026

Cyber Advance for Women in MENA: employment rate nearly doubled.

An independent endline evaluation conducted by research firm Mindset — surveying participants six to seven months after the U.S. State Department–funded program concluded — found employment among completers rose from 35% at baseline to 66% at endline, with 62% of active completers working in the ICT sector and 71% of new labor-market entrants placed as cyber analysts or IT technicians: the exact roles the program was designed to supply.

Download the full evaluation (PDF)
35→66%
Employment rate, baseline to endline (n = 97 completers)
+59%
Median earnings growth in Egypt for those employed at baseline (+15% Jordan)
87%
CompTIA Security+ pass rate among exam takers
34→52%
Involvement in major household financial decisions

Case study — SoftBank

Private-sector rigor is our default setting.

SoftBank's $5B Latin America Innovation Fund engaged Correlation One to unlock data and AI capability across its portfolio companies. We benchmarked skills, built a case-based curriculum around each company's real business problems, and had teams implement their capstone solutions in live operations.

This is the delivery engine we bring to development work — the same platform, the same instructors, the same standards.

 

Read the full case study →

$24M/yr
Estimated annual cost savings generated for portfolio companies
2,350
Applicants attracted from 8 countries across Latin America
97%
Retention rate across the 11-week program
100%
Of teams shipped capstone solutions — including logistics routing and credit models
 

 

Program coverage & recognition

How to engage us

Four pathways, mapped to how your institution actually works.

 

We've structured our practice around the instruments you already use — so a conversation can become an operation without inventing a new modality.

01 · Financed operations

Implementing partner in government-executed operations

We deliver national-scale workforce components inside Bank- and MDB-financed projects, procured and executed by the borrowing government. We know how to win, contract, and deliver under government procurement — not just donor grants.

PRECEDENT: DS4A / Colombia: multi-year national program contracted directly with MinTIC, Government of Colombia.
02 · Results-based financing

Outcomes-priced delivery for RBF and outcome funds

We will contract on verified jobs and wage gains — with independent verification and payment tied to results. Our margin is at risk alongside your development objective, which is exactly how it should be.

PRECEDENT: Tech for Jobs: outcome-focused delivery with a J-PAL randomized controlled trial measuring causal impact.
03 · Advisory & analytics

Technical advisory to country teams and ministries

Assessment-based skills benchmarking and AI workforce readiness diagnostics that plug directly into country diagnostics, jobs strategies, and project preparation — grounded in what workforces can actually do, not survey self-reports.

PRECEDENT: Published Technical Skills Benchmarking research, including national-level reports (2023).
04 · Private capital mobilization

Corporate co-investment and employer demand

Our core business is AI enablement for Fortune 500 enterprises. We bring employers to the table as co-funders and hirers — converting your public dollars into blended structures with private skin in the game.

PRECEDENT: DS4A / Latin America: fully sponsored by SoftBank and portfolio companies across four countries, 2020.

Fiduciary readiness

  • Prime contractor to the U.S. government
  • Implementation partner for multilateral institutions
  • USAID-funded delivery (Tech for Jobs)
  • Direct government contracting (MinTIC, Colombia)
  • Independent RCT evaluation (J-PAL / MIT)
Aligned to SDG 8 Decent Work & Economic Growth SDG 5 Gender Equality SDG 4 Quality Education SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals
The engine behind the practice

Global Development 2.0 runs on the same platform trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises — not on donor-funded overhead.

 
500K+
Professionals trained
50+
Countries served
$1B+
Measured client productivity impact
3,000+
AI domain experts in our network
FAQ

Everything you need to know.

 
What is Global Development 2.0? Global Development 2.0 is Correlation One's model for workforce development in the AI era: the jobs agenda, rebuilt. Instead of donor-funded, activity-billed programs that report on people trained, Global Development 2.0 programs are priced on verified economic outcomes — jobs created and wages earned — delivered at private-sector pace with private capital co-invested alongside public funding. How does Correlation One work with the World Bank, UN agencies, and MDBs? Four ways: as an implementing partner inside government-executed, Bank-financed operations; as an outcomes-priced delivery partner for results-based financing and outcome funds; as a technical advisor providing assessment-based skills benchmarking for country diagnostics and jobs strategies; and as a mobilizer of corporate co-investment and employer demand.
 How is this different from traditional development implementers? Traditional implementers are structured around donor grants, activity-based billing, and input reporting. Correlation One's development practice runs on the AI enablement platform we built for Fortune 500 enterprises, which means lean cost structure, employer relationships that convert training into jobs, and the willingness to put our own margin at risk against verified outcomes.
 What evidence supports Correlation One's programs? Three layers: Tech for Jobs in Jordan carries a randomized controlled trial conducted by MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), funded by USAID — one of only 17 RCTs USAID ran globally. Cyber Advance for Women in MENA has an independent third-party endline evaluation by research firm Mindset. And all programs report participant-level outcome data, with published Technical Skills Benchmarking research measuring workforce capability through direct assessment rather than surveys.
 What did the independent evaluation of Cyber Advance find? The June 2026 endline evaluation, conducted by independent research firm Mindset six to seven months after program completion, found that employment among the 97 surveyed completers nearly doubled — from 35% at baseline to 66% at endline — with 80% in paid work since program start. 87% of exam takers passed CompTIA Security+, median earnings rose 59% in Egypt and 15% in Jordan among those employed at baseline, and participants' involvement in major household financial decisions rose from 34% to 52%.
 Where has Correlation One delivered at national scale? Colombia (DS4A with MinTIC since 2019, 2,000+ graduates from 30,000+ applicants), Jordan (Tech for Jobs with USAID, 1,500+ jobs; Cyber Advance with the U.S. State Department), Latin America (DS4A across 8 countries with SoftBank), and workforce programs across 50+ countries including Amazon Career Choice in 10 countries.
 How are Global Development 2.0 programs funded and priced? Programs are structured to blend funding sources: multilateral or bilateral financing, government budgets, and private-sector co-investment from employers who hire program graduates. Correlation One offers outcomes-based pricing — payment tied to independently verified jobs and wage gains — as well as traditional contract structures inside government-executed operations. Pricing depends on scope, country, and target outcomes.

Bring us a country, an operation, or an outcomes target.

If you're a task team leader, program officer, or country director working on the jobs agenda, we'll show you what an outcomes-priced, evidence-backed workforce operation looks like — with a delivery precedent behind every claim.