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Impact Evaluation 4 Peace24-27 March 2014, Lisbon, Portugal

Name of ProjectLatin America and the Caribbean’s Citizen SecurityTeam

Motivation/Background

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

01,0002,0003,0004,0005,0006,0007,0008,0009,000

10,000

Total formal jobs Formal jobs in tourism

Target: 5,300

5,780

Target: 3,200

3,220

Job creation in Nosy Be - Number

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

0

500

1,000

1,500

2,000

2,500 Target: 1,700

2,420

NOSY-BEPOLE

TAOLAGNAROPOLE

A multisector approach

TOURISM AGRIBUSINESS MINING

An integrated approach with a set of interventions/instruments

NORTHERN CORRIDOR

TULEAR

Job creation in Nosy Be - Number Business creation in Nosy Be - Number

How to assess the impact of some specific interventions, such as training, business facilitation to be able to scale them up if successful?

How to attribute job creation and/or firm creation to the project interventions?

Objective: Job creation and inclusive growth

Research questions

Context. High demand for personal development training in PIC1. Part of the effect of this training may be to encourage entrepreneurship among people who don’t see themselves as entrepreneurs.

1. Are the Personal Development Training and Entrepreneurship Training effective?◦ PDT: 1-2 week training on encouraging proactivity, personal

responsibility, etc◦ Entrepreneurship program: 4-8 week program (basic

accounting, marketing skills, elaboration of business plans, communication, etc)

2. Overall impact of program on particular indicators: ◦ Behavior (job search, self-reported well-being, social

interactions, community involvement), household incomes, assets, consumption and on the likelihood of becoming an entrepreneur, businesses started, continuity of businesses

Evaluation design (I)Individuals

being interested in

the PDT

ControlPersonal

Development Training

Treatment 2 Entrepreneurship training/coaching

offered

Individual Randomization with phase in after one year

1 /3 2/3

Individual Randomization

Treatment 1“No

entrepreneurship training/coaching

offered”

1/21/2

Baseline survey

Endline survey (after one year)

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Challenges Merge existing evidence with our own

experience in Madagascar Will entrepreneurship training take-up among

the population be sufficient enough to measure the impact of the entrepreneurship training and/or different types of entrepreneurship training?

Timing constraint: we want to scale-up effective interventions quickly given project timeline (Board date in December 2014)

Budget constraint: cost of data collection given existing household survey, enterprise survey, etc