Please use this form to submit your study for inclusion into our database. It will be checked by a member of the Innovation Growth Lab team, who may be in contact to ask for more information. Your email address * Your name * Title * The name of the study Short summary A 5-day enterprise training programme for women in Kenya. Results forthcoming. A brief description of the project's goals and its current state Abstract <p>This impact evaluation aims to measure the causal impact of the ILO’s Get Ahead business training programme on the profitability, growth and survival of female-owned businesses in Kenya, and to evaluate whether any gains in profitability come at the expense of other business owners. To do so, the evaluation will use a randomized control trial (RCT) methodology with a two-level randomized experiment: randomized selection of villages, and of individuals within villages. The study works with 3,538 individuals in 157 markets. In addition to measuring the impact of this training program, individuals assigned to training are also then randomly assigned to one of three different invitation choice structures to measure the extent to which variations in the way in which people are invited to training affect training take-up.</p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/26243 Links to any published papers and related discussions Authors * Affiliations Academic and other institutes that the authors of the study are members of Delivery partner Organisations involved in delivering the trial, if appropriate Year Year Year199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Month MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Day Day12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Journal Journal publishing the study, if available Publication stage * Working Paper Published Ongoing Research Forthcoming Discussion Paper Research theme * Entrepreneurship Innovation Business Growth Country Country or countries where this study took place. Topics What sort of topics does the study cover? Sample attributes Hypotheses / research question What is the impact of ILO's Get Ahead business training programme on the profitability, growth and survival of female-owned businesses? Will the impact of the training augment when complementary business support services are available? What effect will any gains in profitability have on other business owners? Sample Trial population and sample selection The trial population was found within a sample of markets based in counties selected by the Technical Committee of the ILO Women Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment project. The counties were selected on geographic variation, regional representation, socio-economic development, business culture and none had previously been involved with ILO Women Entrepreneurship Development tools or major enterprise development programmes or women's associations. Medium or large markets centres outside main cities were given a questionnaire, and markets with enough women were chosen to be part of the trial. Within the chosen markets, individual women participated in the trial. They had to pass an eligibility filter: women were required to have reported profits but these could not exceed their sales. They had to have a phone number, be 55 years or younger, could not be running a business dealing only with phone cards or m-pesa, or be running a school. The person responding to the questionnaires could not be an employee and the business could not have more than 3 employees. Profits had to be between 0 and 4,000 KSH and sales in the past week had to be less than or equal to 50,000 KSH. The women had to have at least one year of schooling. After this screening, the sample consisted of 3,538 individuals in 157 markets. Markets were then randomly placed in treatment or control groups, stratified by geographical region and number of women surveyed in market. Within treated markets, individuals were also randomly assigned to treatment or control, stratified based on quartiles of weekly profits reported in the census. Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups Total treatment group: 1,173 individuals; (Standard choice group: 393 individuals; Active choice group: 387 individuals; Enhanced active group: 393 individuals) Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description 5-day workshop provided by the ILO's Gender and Entrepreneurship Together - GET Ahead for Women in Enterprise Program. The training was taught to 20-30 women at a time. It addressed practical and strategic needs of low-income women in enterprise through teaching basic business and people management skills, developing entrepreneurial traits and generating support groups. Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Survey. Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables <p>Business Survivorship. Sales and Profitability: Total sales in the last day, total sales in the last week, total sales in the last week of product accounting for largest share of profits, average weekly profits over the last 2 weeks, mark-up profits in the last week of product accounting for largest share of profits, third party valuation of business inventories for sale. Standardised profits and sales impact will be obtained by aggregating these different effects as a standardised z-score. Standardised profits/sales obtained by aggregating above effects as standardised z-score.</p> Results <p>Not yet available.</p> Intervention costs 17,000 KSH on average to provide training (as specified in training invitation). Cost benefit ratio Reference McKenzie, David; Puerto, Susana. 2017. Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs : A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya. Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7993. World Bank, Washington, DC. Citation for use in academic references
