The Impact of Private Sector Internship and Training on Urban Youth in Kenya
This study uses a randomized experiment to evaluate the impacts of the training and internship program piloted in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu counties by the Kenya Private Sector Alliance and the Government of Kenya with support from the World Bank...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/08/24958910/impact-private-sector-internship-training-urban-youth-kenya http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22661 |
| Summary: | This study uses a randomized experiment
to evaluate the impacts of the training and internship
program piloted in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu counties by
the Kenya Private Sector Alliance and the Government of
Kenya with support from the World Bank’s Kenya Youth
Empowerment Project. The program provided three months of
classroom-based technical training coupled with three months
of internships in private firms to vulnerable youths between
ages 15 and 29 years, with vulnerable being defined as those
out of school and/or with no permanent job. The analysis in
this paper is based on survey data collected before the
program started (July 2012) and 15 months after the program
ended (July 2014). The results of the impact evaluation show
that the program has been successful in placing youths in
paid jobs and has contributed to an increase of 15 percent
in current employment among male participants. The
evaluation also found that the program has had positive
effects on wage earnings, especially those of females and
among older males, with wages increasing by about K Sh 5,000
for males and by K Sh 7,500 for females. With a total unit
cost of K Sh 97,000 per beneficiary, an estimated K Sh 6,768
monthly wage for males and K Sh 9,623 monthly wage for
females, the program’s benefits exceeded the costs for males
and females. The program also encouraged youths to
participate in either (certified) skills training or an
internship program, and helped to increase the probability
of participants’ opening a bank account and accumulating
savings (for females). |
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