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abstract: 'This paper assesses the impact of an integrated skills training program
given to youth aged 17-25-year old living under the \$2/day poverty line
in the cocoa belt region of Ghana. Despite being a leading producer of
cocoa and having a burgeoning youth population, it is estimated that the
average age of a cocoa farmer in Ghana is greater than 50 years. To
introduce young people to cocoa farming and address the potential
barriers they face in order to do that; a multi-faceted skills training
programme was designed with the ultimate aim of improving and
diversifying youth livelihoods. The training had three key components:
i) cocoa academies (which includes agricultural practices; life skills
and financial literacy); ii) business incubators (including
entrepreneurial training, networks, mentoring) and iii) supporting
enabling environment (access to land and finance). Combining
quasi-experimental methods Propensity Score Matching with Difference in
Differences, we estimate the causal effect of the programme on
agricultural outcomes (farming, agricultural practices), financial
behaviour outcomes (saving practices, mobile banking) and livelihood
outcomes (employment, income, poverty likelihood) one year after the
completion of training. The results of the impact evaluation suggest
that compared to the control group (youth nonparticipants), youths who
participated in the training adopt better agricultural practices (26
percentage points (pp)), cultivate cocoa (24 pp), and are more likely to
engage in farming (22 pp). We also find a 28.7\% increase in income in
the last seven days and hours worked by 12.4\%. Youth also increase the
use of banks for saving (16 pp), save using mobile money (6.7 pp), the
use of Village Savings and Loan Associations (1.7 pp) and, in general,
the use of mobile money for both sending and receiving transfers (10.6
pp). The sex-disaggregated sub-sample analysis provides other valuable
insights on the intervention.(c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Unnikrishnan, V (Corresponding Author), Univ Manchester, Global Dev
Inst, Manchester, Lancs, England.
Unnikrishnan, Vidhya, Univ Manchester, Global Dev Inst, Manchester, Lancs, England.
Pinet, Melanie; Pasanen, Tiina, Overseas Dev Inst, London, England.
Marc, Lukasz, World Bank, 1818 H St NW, Washington, DC 20433 USA.
Boateng, Nathaniel Amoh, Solidaridad West Africa, Accra, Ghana.
Boateng, Ethel Seiwaa, Participatory Dev Associates, Kumasi, Ghana.
Atta-Mensah, Maya, Cornerstone Res, San Francisco, CA USA.
Bridonneau, Sophie, Civil Serv Fast Stream, Cabinet Off, London, England.'
article-number: '105732'
author: Unnikrishnan, Vidhya and Pinet, Melanie and Marc, Lukasz and Boateng, Nathaniel
Amoh and Boateng, Ethel Seiwaa and Pasanen, Tiina and Atta-Mensah, Maya and Bridonneau,
Sophie
author-email: 'Vidhya.unnikrishnan@manchester.ac.uk
m.pinet@odi.org.uk
lmarc@worldbank.org
nat@solidaridadnetwork.org
t.pasanen@odi.org.uk
bridonneau@faststream.civilservice.gov.uk'
author_list:
- family: Unnikrishnan
given: Vidhya
- family: Pinet
given: Melanie
- family: Marc
given: Lukasz
- family: Boateng
given: Nathaniel Amoh
- family: Boateng
given: Ethel Seiwaa
- family: Pasanen
given: Tiina
- family: Atta-Mensah
given: Maya
- family: Bridonneau
given: Sophie
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105732
earlyaccessdate: JAN 2022
eissn: 1873-5991
files: []
issn: 0305-750X
journal: WORLD DEVELOPMENT
keywords: Training; Youths; Impact; Quasi-experiment; Livelihood strategies
keywords-plus: EMPLOYMENT
language: English
month: MAR
number-of-cited-references: '44'
orcid-numbers: Amoh Boateng, Nathaniel/0000-0003-2320-8376
papis_id: 159241305c85672395721ccf3167d0b2
ref: Unnikrishnan2022impactintegrated
times-cited: '1'
title: 'Impact of an integrated youth skill training program on youth livelihoods:
A case study of cocoa belt region in Ghana'
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000806868400027
usage-count-last-180-days: '3'
usage-count-since-2013: '8'
volume: '151'
web-of-science-categories: Development Studies; Economics
year: '2022'