International Rescue Committee PRO-Jeunes Program Impact Evaluation Surveys, 2019-2023 Baseline and Midline Côte d'Ivoire

he published data was collected in urban Côte d’Ivoire, specifically in Abidjan, the country’s capital, and Grand-Bassam, the historic capital around 33 km from Abidjan. These surveys were conducted as part of the impact evaluation of the PRO-Jeunes (Pro-Youth) program, a six-year program (2017-2022) implemented by the International Rescue Committee (IRC). The program provides flexible (self-) employment support services to youth aged 15 to 30 years in both rural and urban Côte d’Ivoire. In addition, to be eligible for the PRO-Jeunes program, applicants must be unschooled or have dropped out of school and show proof of identity. The program was designed to accommodate a wide range of beneficiaries’ needs and knowledge levels. While several cohorts were eligible for the program, we currently focus on the first two cohorts.

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), a non-profit research and policy organization, was in charge of the implementation of the survey. Enumerators used tablets containing programmed questionnaires on the SurveyCTO platform to collect data.

The publication contains two datasets:

baseline1_noPII: Data collected as part of the baseline survey targeting the first cohort of the PRO-Jeunes program. 1865 individuals participated in a face-to-face interview between February and July 2019.

baseline2_noPII: Data collected as part of the baseline survey targeting the second cohort of the PRO-Jeunes program. 1208 individuals were interviewed through a phone survey between May and September 2020.

KEY VARIABLES  

This survey was designed to capture indicators of the following topics:  
- Income-Generating activities
- Earnings 
- Professional projects
- Entrepreneurship
- Productive equipment
- Savings
- Credit
- Expenditures
- Aspirations
- Socioemotional skills
- Reproductive health
- Domestic violence
- Gender attitudes
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