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Technical & Vocational Skills Training Program for Orphans & Vulnerable Youth

Maria Jones Field Coordinator TVST OVAY DIME Workshop, Dubai June 2, 2010. Technical & Vocational Skills Training Program for Orphans & Vulnerable Youth. Outline of Presentation. TVST Program Background and Motivation TVST Impact Evaluation Hypothesis Research Design

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Technical & Vocational Skills Training Program for Orphans & Vulnerable Youth

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  1. Maria Jones Field Coordinator TVST OVAY DIME Workshop, Dubai June 2, 2010 Technical & Vocational Skills Training Program for Orphans & Vulnerable Youth

  2. Outline of Presentation • TVST Program • Background and Motivation • TVST Impact Evaluation • Hypothesis • Research Design • Primary implementation challenge : locating and tracking at-risk youth • Sources of difficulty • Implications • Lessons learned

  3. Background & Motivation • Motivation • Large population of unskilled, unemployed youth in Malawi • High rates of HIV/AIDS prevalence (~13%) • Lack of skills is a major impediment to Malawi’s economic growth and limits employment opportunities for youth • TVST Program • Targets youth 15-24 years old from ultra-poor households • Beneficiaries matched with a local master craftsman • Receive practical, competency-based vocational training, mentoring, entrepreneurial / life-skills training, and business start up kits.

  4. TVST-OVAY Impact Evaluation • Hypothesis of Program Effect: • enhance marketable skills and employability • increase returns to productive activity and opportunity costs of engaging in risky behavior • Local collaborators: • Malawi National AIDS Commission • Technical, Entrepreneurial and Vocational Training Authority

  5. Research Design • What is the causal effect of the training on • LM outcomes: employability and earnings potential • Health outcomes: high-risk sexual activity, drug/alcohol use • Identification strategy: Randomized Phase-In • Beneficiaries randomly assigned to 1 of 3 cohorts • Only systematic difference between cohorts is time of treatment • Data collection: • Baseline survey March – May 2010 • Follow up December 2010 – Feb 2011

  6. Implementation Challenges • Biggest challenge: Finding and tracking respondents • Sources of difficulties: • Geographic dispersion (consequence of program design) • High transport costs • Lack of address system • Decentralized selection of beneficiaries • Incomplete contact information • Beneficiary list not vetted by implementing agency • Highly mobile target population • Time lag between selection of youth and baseline data collection

  7. Implementation Challenges • Implications: Increased cost and time for data collection, attrition • Interviewed ~75% of sample • 7.8% dropped due to faulty listing (outside age bracket, ineligible) • 10.2% had moved away since listing • 4.4% impossible to identify (name / village unknown) • Lessons learned: • Sample frame must be completely current and pre-verified • The more contact information, the better • Gathering respondents in central locations saves time/$ • Use local mediate to facilitate communication (radio ads) • Attrition remains a serious concern for follow-up

  8. Thank you for your attention! Questions?

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