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IVORY COAST
Temporary Employment Opportunities for Youth
Programme
Temporary Employment Opportunities for Youth (Component of
the Emergency Youth Employment and Skills Development Project)
Country
Geographic area
Previous programme name (if any)
Ivory Coast
Sub-Saharan Africa
Start date 2011 1
Programme objectives To provide work opportunities and training to youth in the Ivory Coast. 1
Programme type Public works—cash for work; training 1
Programme components
The Temporary Employment Opportunities for Youth is a component
of the Emergency Youth Employment and Skills Development Project
(Projet d’Urgence de Création d’Emploi Jeunes et de Développement
des Compétences—PEJEDEC). 2
Conditionalities (if any)
Targeting methods
Target areas
Target groups
Eligibility criteria
Eligibility reassessment (if any)
Geographic targeting; self-targeting;
community-based targeting (in rural areas) 2,3
Urban and rural areas (with a specific focus on rural areas
because of higher unemployment rates and unskilled youth). 2
Youth
Eligible individuals are unskilled or low-skilled men and women,
aged 18–30, not in school or training and without a formal or
informal source of income. 1
Type of benefits
Cash
Amount of benefits
1 minimum wage (as defined by Ivory Coast legislation) and a minimum
of 15 per cent (XOF10,000/month) of the earnings deposited in a savings
account opened by the beneficiaries, and made available at the end of
their public work period. 2
Payment/delivery frequency
Benefit delivery mechanism
Benefits are deposited into the beneficiaries’ bank accounts.
Benefit recipients Beneficiaries 3
Minimum and maximum
duration of benefits (if any)
Participants receive a temporary three-month contract, renewable for an
additional three months, or a non-renewable six-month temporary contract. 3
Coverage 12,693 youth (December 2014) 2
Programme expenditure
Institutions and agencies involved Government of Ivory Coast; Government of France; World Bank 1
Monitoring and evaluation
AGEROUTE (National Roads Agency), as implementing sub-agency,
mechanisms and frequency
is responsible for technical and fiduciary supervision, data collection
and results monitoring. Monthly progress reports; impact evaluation
and beneficiary surveys are conducted. 3
See the references on page 172: Temporary Employment Opportunities for Youth
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