Rigorous Evidence on Skills for Better Jobs: Recent Insights from Africa
Jann Lay
Rigorous Evidence on Skills for Better Jobs: Recent Insights from Africa
Lecture | 17/04/2024
This seminar presented the main findings of a selected series of rigorous impact evaluations on skills interventions, discussed the implications for active labour market policies, and reflected on how to best use and produce rigorous evidence in policy practice.
Video Seminar Rigorous Evidence on Skills for Better Jobs
How effective are skills training programs in sub-Saharan Africa at improving participants’ skills, employment perspectives and income? This systematic review analyses recent, randomized studies conducted between 2019 and 2024, painting a slightly more optimistic picture than earlier studies.
How does skills training impact the livelihood and employment situation of participants, and how accurate are implementers’ beliefs about program effectiveness? This study of a “best-case” training program in fashion for young women in Ghana finds gaps between realised and expected impacts.
This issue of Africa Spectrum covers topics such as the problem of „global visibility“ of African science, state control in Uganda, voter behaviour in Nigeria, the role of religious symbolism and religiosity in The Gambia, land and agrarian reform in Zimbabwe, and marriages in Cameroon.
