Attanasio, Orazio; Guarín, Arlen; Medina, Carlos;  Meghir, Costas, 2015, Long Term Impacts of Vouchers for Vocational Training: Experimental Evidence For Colombia, Impact evaluation

2.3 DIRECT ACTIONS IN COMMUNITIES

2.3.6. Vocational education/skills training

Recommendation: 19) Ensure that training includes both practical as well as theoretical aspects. Projects on TVET should emphasise and directly include the establishment of effective connections between job training and job placements. This may specifically include supporting:

• The establishment of direct interactions during training between potential employers and trainees/students
• Job placement centres/services and raising the awareness of their staff of the existence of the TVET graduates.

Reference: Attanasio, Orazio; Guarín, Arlen; Medina, Carlos;  Meghir, Costas, 2015, Long Term Impacts of Vouchers for Vocational Training: Experimental Evidence For Colombia, Impact evaluation, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, USA, impact evaluation on the project “Jovenes en Acción” (JeA), Colombia.

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2.3 DIRECT ACTIONS IN COMMUNITIES

2.3.6. Vocational education/skills training

Recommendation: 23) Develop voucher programmes for young and other interested persons to facilitate attendance in TVET programmes. A voucher program enables potential trainees to receive vouchers that they can use to cover (most) of the costs of training in a selected number of training sites.

Reference: Attanasio, Orazio; Guarín, Arlen; Medina, Carlos;  Meghir, Costas, 2015, Long Term Impacts of Vouchers for Vocational Training: Experimental Evidence For Colombia, Impact evaluation, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, USA, impact evaluation on the project “Jovenes en Acción” (JeA), Colombia.

Evidence sample: the evaluation noted that the probability of working in the formal sector is increased by 4 percentage points as a result of the TVET voucher program. In a voucher program potential trainees receive  vouchers that they can use to cover (most) of the costs of training in a selected number of training sites. Given the importance for growth of reducing the size of the informal sector and moving people into the formal one the lessons learnt from this program should be replicated.