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Supporting Youth Employment through Cash Grants for Entrepreneurship: Findings from a Qualitative Study of the Perspectives and Experiences of Cash Grant Recipients under the Benin Youth Employment Project

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dc.contributor.authorWorld Bank
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-25T18:43:54Z
dc.date.available2023-10-25T18:43:54Z
dc.date.issued2023-10-25
dc.description.abstractBenin’s labor market is characterized by a high participation rate, but extensive informality and underemployment. Underemployment is even higher among youth and rural women. The labor market is also extremely segregated by gender. Under the Benin Youth Employment Project(PEJ), closed in June 2019, the Government of Benin (GoB) successfully piloted a gender sensitive economic inclusion program. In addition to a comprehensive package of services, the project included services and operational processes to maximize female participation. The PEJ focused on helping youth start or expand their income-generating activities by delivering business and life skills training and cash grants. The life skills modules focused on communication, problem solving, gender and empowerment, aspirations, and initiative. An impact evaluation of PEJ, conducted by the World Bank’s Gender Innovation Lab (GIL), was designed to measure the impact of these components alone and in combination. One group of participants received both interventions, one group only the training, one group only the cash grant, and a control group received neither. The ambition was to evaluate the relative impacts of relaxing the financial capital constraint, the human capital constraint, and both simultaneously. The purpose of the study was to investigate the mechanisms of impact of the cash grants by gathering grant recipients’ perspectives on the support they received. The research questions and methodology are described in this report.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099101223170534471/P1774610143b7d0e089900225d4457fbbc
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/40537
dc.identifier.urihttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/40537
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWashington, DC
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
dc.subjectINFORMALITY
dc.subjectLOW WAGE JOBS
dc.subjectWOMEN'S LABOR MARKET
dc.subjectFEMALE UNDEREMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectECONOMIC INCLUSION PROGRAM
dc.titleSupporting Youth Employment through Cash Grants for Entrepreneurshipen
dc.title.subtitleFindings from a Qualitative Study of the Perspectives and Experiences of Cash Grant Recipients under the Benin Youth Employment Projecten
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okr.crossref.titleSupporting Youth Employment through Cash Grants for Entrepreneurship: Findings from a Qualitative Study of the Perspectives and Experiences of Cash Grant Recipients under the Benin Youth Employment Project
okr.date.disclosure2023-10-13
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-25T02:24:20.757437Z
okr.date.lastmodified2023-10-13T00:00:00Zen
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okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099101223170534471/P1774610143b7d0e089900225d4457fbbc
okr.guid099101223170534471
okr.identifier.docmidP177461-143b7d36-661e-40fe-8990-225d4457fbbc
okr.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1596/40537
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum34179581
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum34179581
okr.identifier.report185191
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099101223170534471/pdf/P1774610143b7d0e089900225d4457fbbc.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeAfrica Western and Central (AFW)
okr.region.countryBenin
okr.sectorSocial Protection
okr.themeSocial protection delivery systems,Gender,Human Development and Gender,Data Development and Capacity Building,Skills Development,Youth Employment,Social Protection,Social Development and Protection,Disease Control,Private Sector Development,Pandemic Response,Labor Market Policy and Programs,Public Sector Management,Jobs,Data production, accessibility and use
okr.topicSocial Development::Social Inclusion & Institutions
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Employment and Unemployment
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Employment and Shared Growth
okr.topicGender::Gender and Social Policy
okr.unitSocial Protection & Labor AFR 2 (HAWS2)
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