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General overview

Stage of development: Complete

Policy sector: Employment and training

Date outcomes contract signed: 2018

Start date of service provision: Dec 2018

Capital raised (minimum): ARS 26.62m (USD 1.10m)

Max potential outcome payment: ARS 48.40m

Service users: 875 individuals

Intervention

Reduce youth unemployment in the city of Buenos Aires, focusing on vulnerable unemployed young citizens and vulnerable young citizens that have not finished high school. The intervention will provide weekly workshops on soft skills training, employment support, orientation and intermediation with companies. The intervention seeks to help the participant find and retain a job, and graduate from high school (if the participant has not graduated yet).

Target population

Participants must meet the following criteria: (1) Ages between 17-24, (2) live in the communes 4, 7, 8, 9 or 10 of the city of Buenos Aires, (3) meet one of the following three criteria: (a) have finished high school, (b) currently coursing the last year of high school, or (c) have abandoned high school but have only 6 courses left to complete it, and (4) have no formal employment.

Location

Country

  • Argentina

Service delivery locations

  • Buenos Aires, Argentina

Outcome metrics

  • Educational completion (vulnerable person) Participants still enrolled in high school during the intervention finish their final year
  • Job placement (vulnerable person) Participant finds a job
  • 4-month job retention (vulnerable person) Participant maintains the job for 4 months
  • 12-month job retention (vulnerable person) Participant maintains the job for 12 months
  • Expansion of the labor market Number of companies that employs the participants of the program increases
  • Educational completion (very vulnerable person) Participants still enrolled in high school during the intervention finish their final year
  • Job placement (very vulnerable person) Participant finds a job
  • 4-month job retention (very vulnerable person) Participant maintains the job for 4 months
  • 12-month job retention (very vulnerable person) Participant maintains the job for 12 months
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