| Date: | 2008- |
| Description: | The Step-to-work pilot programme was implemented by the Jamaican government in 2008. It has been included as a new component of PATH, focusing on empowering working-age PATH users with job skills. The programme includes a literacy and entrepreneurship component, job search training and a job bank. |
Characteristics
| Target population: | PATH recipients of working age |
| Area of intervention: | 1) Technical and professional training 2) Labour intermediation services |
| Geographic scale: | National |
| Targeting method: | Categorical |
Institutionality
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| Responsible organization(s): | Ministry of Labour and Social Security |
| Executing organization(s): | Ministry of Labour and Social Security |
| Source of funding: | Government of Jamaica |
1) Literacy and entrepreneurship
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2) Job-seeking training
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3) Job board
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| Description: | This is the main component of the programme. It consists in integrating directly the beneficiary into a company (through a labour pool within the Electronic Labour Exchange of the LMIS) for a three-month period and assesses their results in terms of employability. |
