Skills Development Project for Employability 2015, Cohort 1 (Baseline) - Congo, Rep.

Abstract
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The Skill Development for Employability Project has been launched in 2015 by the government of the Republic of Congo, and jointly financed with the World bank. The project provides vocational training to young men and women in Brazzaville and Pointe Noire. The World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) is conducting an impact evaluation of one of its sub-component, in which beneficiaries enroll in a six-month technical training course, followed by a three-month internship, and a job search support program.

To reach its targets, the project is being rolled out over several years, training successively different cohorts of applicants. This dataset was generated through the baseline survey of the first cohort participating in this subcomponent. In the future, it will be expanded to include the subsequent cohorts of participants. Applicants must be between 17 and 30-year-old, and have the possibility to choose between a number of trades including mechanics/auto-mechanics, electricity, welding, textile, hospitality, carpentry, cooking. Following their internship, they receive support from the program to launch their job search or independent activity.

The program’s main objectives is to increase participants' level of employment, by strengthening their technical and managerial skills. Moreover, the project is designed to support young women who wish to cross over to non-traditional sectors, which are typically dominated by men, but are more profitable. In other words, the program seeks to find solutions to address gender segregation in the labor market. The project is providing a daily transportation fees of 1500 CFA to young men and 2000 CFA to young women. A higher amount was provided to women, notably to encourage young mothers to participate to the program. Through these incentives, the project hopes to enroll about 50% women among the beneficiaries.

Geographic coverage
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The impact evaluation and the project are conducted in the cities of Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire.

Analysis unit
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Individual

Universe
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These datasets are the baseline data of the first cohort of the project. The data contain information on 880 individuals who received or not the program.

Kind of data
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Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure
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The overall sample of the study is estimated to be about 3500 individuals (control and treatment). For this first cohort, the study sample was 929 individuals - 880 were surveyed.

To select the project's beneficiaries, applications were collected in all districts of Brazzaville and Pointe Noire. A team spent a full day in each district collecting applications and conducting a pre-screening of interested candidates. The project spent 5 days to collect applications in the 9 districts of Brazzaville and 6 days in the 6 districts of Pointe-Noire.

To be eligible to the program the following criteria were requested:
- Be aged between 17 and 30-year-old
- Having been out of school for at least a year before the application
- Have at least 6 years' education level
- Be a Congolese national

In the application center, the young men and women were helped by members of governments to fill an application form. After filling personal information requested on the form, they received information on the different trades offered by the program, before selecting up to two trades for which they were interested in receiving training. This process was followed by a one-to-one interview with a trainer in their selected trades, during which they were also asked to take a test in reading and basic maths.

For each trade, the goal was to select three times as many applications as there were available spots. A random draw was then conducted within each trade to assign applicants to control or treatment groups.

Sampling deviation
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None

Mode of data collection
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Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]

摘要
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由刚果共和国政府于2015年启动的就业技能提升项目，与世界银行共同资助。该项目为布拉柴维尔和波因特-诺瓦的青年男女提供职业培训。世界银行非洲性别创新实验室（GIL）正在对其子组件之一进行影响评估，其中受益者需参加为期六个月的技术培训课程，随后进行为期三个月的实习，并得到就业搜索支持计划。

为实现其目标，该项目分多年逐步实施，依次培训不同批次的申请人。本数据集是通过该项目子组件首批参与者的基线调查生成的。未来，它将扩展以包括后续参与者的批次。申请人必须在17至30岁之间，并有机会在包括机械/汽车机械、电力、焊接、纺织、酒店、木工、烹饪等多个行业中选择。在实习结束后，他们将获得项目支持以启动求职或独立经营活动。

该项目的主要目标是通过增强他们的技术和管理技能，提高参与者的就业水平。此外，该项目旨在支持希望跨入男性主导但更具盈利性的非传统行业的年轻女性。换句话说，该项目旨在寻找解决劳动力市场性别隔离问题的方案。项目为年轻男性提供每天1500非洲金融共同体法郎的交通补贴，为年轻女性提供2000非洲金融共同体法郎。给予女性的补贴金额更高，特别是为了鼓励年轻母亲参与该项目。通过这些激励措施，项目希望将受益者中的女性比例提高到约50%。

地理覆盖范围
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影响评估和项目在布拉柴维尔和波因特-诺瓦两市进行。
分析单元
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个人
总体
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这些数据集是该项目的第一批次基线数据。数据包含880名个体接受或未接受该计划的信息。
数据类型
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样本调查数据 [ssd]
抽样程序
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研究总体样本估计约为3500人（对照组和处理组）。对于第一批次，研究样本为929人，其中880人接受了调查。

为选择项目的受益者，在布拉柴维尔和波因特-诺瓦的所有地区收集了申请。一个团队在每个地区花费整天时间收集申请并进行感兴趣候选人的预筛选。项目在布拉柴维尔9个区和波因特-诺瓦6个区共花费5天和6天时间收集申请。

要符合项目资格，以下标准是必需的：
- 年龄在17至30岁之间
- 在申请前至少辍学一年
- 至少有6年教育水平
- 为刚果国籍

在申请中心，青年男女在政府成员的帮助下填写申请表格。在填写表格上要求提供的个人信息后，他们获得了有关项目提供的不同行业的介绍，然后他们选择了他们感兴趣的接受培训的两个行业。在此过程中，他们还将与所选行业的一名培训师进行一对一面试，在此期间，他们还被要求参加阅读和基础数学测试。

对于每个行业，目标是选择比可用名额多三倍的申请。然后在每个行业内进行随机抽取，以将申请人分配到对照或处理组。
抽样偏差
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无
数据收集方式
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计算机辅助个人访谈 [capi]