Antarang Foundation
Impact evaluation of Antarang Foundation’s Career Aware program
Partner/Client
Antarang Foundation
Sector
NGO
Location
Maharashtra
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
- The programme reaches out to 18 to 25 year old underprivileged youths in colleges and communities and teaches them core employability skills that are expected of them in a structured workplace.
- Retrospective evaluation reached out to about 250 students from different batches from 2015 to 2018. For the periodic evaluation- baseline, midline, and endline evaluation – research has been designed to reach 302 students from the 2019-20 batches.
- The programme served as a good upskilling initiative and as a stepping stone for youth from vulnerable communities to get a good head start to their careers, with their associations with good companies, brands, and networks.
Impact evaluation of Antarang Foundation’s CareerAware programme on high school kids
Antarang’s ‘CareerAware’ programme is built on the premise that exposure to career options and tools helps make an informed career choice and will enable children to plan careers and stay in education at least until they are 18 years of age. The programme is a 2-year career guidance programme that engages 9th and 10th standard students into thinking about their career and future. The purpose of the evaluation is to find out if and how the CareerAware programme has developed the knowledge, skills, attitudes among young people to have an impact on their higher education attainment and career choices.
RESEARCH TOOLS
01. Structured survey
02. Semi structured interviewss
03. Participatory Tools (Dotmocracy)
04. Career Mapping Log-Frames
APPROACH
A two-year longitudinal study was designed to determine the impact of the Career Aware programme on students. The programme’s Theory of Change model was studied, an indicator grid was developed. Stakeholders were mapped to determine short, mid, and long-term outcomes of the intervention over two years. The study adopted a pre-post quasi-experimental design in 11 schools and counterfactual impact evaluation for one school involving comparison of students in schools that received the intervention (“the treated group”) with those of students from a school that did not receive the intervention (“the comparison group”). Since the survey respondents were school kids, techniques like ‘dotmocracy’ were used to engage the participating kids in a fun way and gather information regarding the programme.
