Final Evaluation of the Uganda and Tanzania Learn, Earn and Save Program

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Author

Advisem Services Inc

Year

2015

Publication/Event Date

December 31 2015

Abstract

U-LEARN is a five-year, US$ 5.6 million program funded by The Mastercard Foundation and carried out by Swisscontact, with a view of reaching 3,600 youth. This initiative relies on a market-based, nonformal training model that provides technical, life skills, and entrepreneurship training to rural and urban vulnerable youth who have little formal education. Youth are organized and taught in learning groups (LGs), structures which allow youth to support each other and facilitate communication with Swisscontact and its network of trainers, including Community-based trainers (CBTs), technical training providers, resource persons, and Community development officers (CDOs). The program also offers a special space for young mothers with specific LGs, called Young mothers' groups (YMGs), set up exclusively for them with a curriculum adapted to their needs. Youth are encouraged to form Mavuno, a loan and saving association, which allow youth to save money and borrow money to develop their income-generating activity (IGA). Mavuno are also an important step in the pathway to the financial inclusion of these youth within the formal banking system. This final evaluation was carried out between August and November 2015 by a team of four evaluators (one team leader and one statistician from Canada, and two national consultants from Tanzania and Uganda). The evaluation team gathered data from a desk review, key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and a survey (in Uganda only) during the course of a field mission in Tanzania and Uganda that took place between September 7 and 28, 2015.

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U-LEARN;

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Archival Record ID

MFA.2024.1167