Impact Evaluation 4 Peace March 2014, Lisbon, Portugal 1 Name of Project Latin America and the Caribbean’s Citizen Security Team

2 Job creation in Nosy Be - Number NOSY-BE POLE TAOLAGNARO POLE A multisector approach TOURISM AGRIBUSINESS MINING An integrated approach with a set of interventions/instruments NORTHERN CORRIDOR TULEAR Job creation in Nosy Be - Number Business creation in Nosy Be - Number How to assess the impact of some specific interventions, such as training, business facilitation to be able to scale them up if successful? How to attribute job creation and/or firm creation to the project interventions? Objective: Job creation and inclusive growth

 Context. High demand for personal development training in PIC1. Part of the effect of this training may be to encourage entrepreneurship among people who don’t see themselves as entrepreneurs.  1. Are the Personal Development Training and Entrepreneurship Training effective? ◦ PDT: 1-2 week training on encouraging proactivity, personal responsibility, etc ◦ Entrepreneurship program: 4-8 week program (basic accounting, marketing skills, elaboration of business plans, communication, etc)  2. Overall impact of program on particular indicators: ◦ Behavior (job search, self-reported well-being, social interactions, community involvement), household incomes, assets, consumption and on the likelihood of becoming an entrepreneur, businesses started, continuity of businesses

Individuals being interested in the PDT Control Personal Development Training Treatment 2 Entrepreneurship training/coaching offered Individual Randomization with phase in after one year 1 /32/3 Individual Randomization Treatment 1 “No entrepreneurship training/coaching offered” 1/2 Baseline survey Endline survey (after one year)

5  Merge existing evidence with our own experience in Madagascar  Will entrepreneurship training take-up among the population be sufficient enough to measure the impact of the entrepreneurship training and/or different types of entrepreneurship training?  Timing constraint: we want to scale-up effective interventions quickly given project timeline (Board date in December 2014)  Budget constraint: cost of data collection given existing household survey, enterprise survey, etc