EFFECTS FROM RANDOMIZED TRAINING IN ICT & MULTIMEDIA TO YOUTH IN PAKWACH.

 This Article evaluates the impact of a randomized training program brought by Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) and her partners MEDIAVISION ACADEMY & GRETAK SERVICES LTD to the youths in Pakwach on ICT & Multimedia outcomes of trainees. This is one of two such randomized training trials conducted on the fourth day of the training and, as such, it offers the unique opportunity to examine the causal impact of training in a developing context.

Youths one by one demonstrating their lessons 

We use collected data on groups randomly selected to training and find that training had widespread and large effects on youth in terms of creating content, using the available application to exhibit created work, assignment to ensure that trainees learnt what they were taken through.

 In particular, youths who received training having a higher probability of being employed, of having a formal job with a written contract. Moreover, trained youth earn higher wages, profits and work more days. Training also increases the probability of having a formal job and having a job with a written contract for men, but men’s earnings and profits are not affected by training.

These results are robust to the use of an ICT & Multimedia strategy, which uses the initial selection into training as an instrument for having been trained to control the internal cause take-up of training. Similarly, the results are robust to ICT evaluations, which directly control job creation to evaluate the impact of timely training program.

Nsereko Henry (Multimedia trainer) demonstrating camera usage to the youths

 Mediavision Academy with support from Uganda Communications Commission on ICT and Multimedia outcomes of trainees, this is one of the best training trials conducted in developing young population capacity in West Nile, and, as such, it offers the unique opportunity to examine the causal impact of training in a developing context. We use originally collected data on individuals randomly selected and find that training had widespread and large effects on youth, but fewer and less pronounced effects on youth without smartphones.

In particular, youth who received training have a higher probability of creating their own jobs and creating content that can bring in income to fight poverty in the West Nile region.

These results are robust to the use of the current job market since it requires digital skills.

Written by Nkambo Robert - Director Mediavision Academy/ Team Leader ICT & Multimedia training

Photo by Osbert Muhumuza

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