Improved employability

Indicator ID M4
Indicator full statement

% of C&Y affected by migration and displacement (disaggregated by status, age, and gender) and family members (by gender) reached by Tdh interventions that improved their employability.

Purpose

Importance

This indicator aims to measure capacity improvements to gain employment in the CYM population following Tdh intervention (such as activities related to social inclusion, i.e education, vocational training, Income Generating Activities.).

ToC pathway

ToC pathway 3 – Social inclusion and CYM empowerment.

Related services

Catalogue of services: Employability support services, Entrepreneurship development or creation, informal education.

Definition

  • Status: on the move (indeterminate); IDPs; Refugee and asylum seeker; Returnees, host communities and local population.

  • Employability:  set of achievements – skills, understandings, and personal attributes – that makes graduates more likely to gain employment.

How to collect & analyse the data

What do we count?

Tdh counts individuals.

How to calculate the indicator's value

Percentage is calculated as follows:

  • Numerator:  Number of children, youth and/or family members (head of household) affected by migration for which an improvement in their employability assets (income growth, material gain) – thanks to Tdh interventions is demonstrated (Or sample of people surveyed whose situation as improved.)

  • Denominator: Number of children, youth and/or family members (head of household) affected by migration receiving support in terms of school re-enrolment, vocational training, cash, IGA, etc. in Tdh programme.   (Or sample of surveyed people in case the number of beneficiaries is very high and if it is not possible to conduct individual follow up assessment with everyone.  Please refer to this table for calculating your sampling size.  Want to know more about sampling? Please consult this guidance).

Process:

  1. Conduct individual interviews with a representative sample of the target group members, or ideally with all of them as part of individual follow up. (*)

  2. Decide the minimum criteria a person needs to reach in order to be considered as having improved its employability.

    This can include, for example:

    • Obtaining certification of qualifications.

    • Finding a job.

    • Completing an internship or a training course.

    • Reporting income growth due any type of activities (ex. Farming), etc.

  3. Divide the number of respondents who improved their employability by the total number of respondents (exclude those who could not or did not want to respond). Multiply the result by 100 to convert it to a percentage.

Data sources

Participants in employment-support activities.
Records from schools & trainers in projects related to education and vocational training.

Data collection methods and tools

Pre/post assessment (through surveys or KIIs) on representatives’ samples of beneficiaries to assess an improvement in their employability assets in project activities related to employability support services, entrepreneurship development or creation, informal education (cf. catalogue of services.)

Example of survey questions

Employability survey.docx

Disaggregation
  • Gender, age, disability.

  • Mobility status: 1) international migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, 2) IDP and internal Migrants, 3) Returnees, children from host communities.

Important considerations

Limitations and precautions

If possible, conduct both a “pre-” and “post-” assessment, otherwise you will not know the extent to which the respondents improved (or not) their employability.

What further analysis are we interested in?

  • Did the intervention significantly contribute to the outcome, or the change is mostly affected / determined by external factors? Is the intervention significant and relevant? What are the barriers and enablers?

  • Which groups are more successful and why?

Additional guidance

Examples of recommended surveys to be used in a range of formats. (*) See Survey final internal evaluation INTEGRA project :  Employability survey.docx

This guidance was prepared by Tdh ©
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