Coding Bootcamps for Youth Employment : Evidence from Colombia, Lebanon, and Kenya

World Bank

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES;    YOUTH EMPLOYMENT;    YOUTH TRAINING;    INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY;    KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING;   

RP-ID  :  125169

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Coding bootcamps are intensiveshort-term programs designed to train participants inprogramming skills to make them immediately employable. Theycombine characteristics of traditional vocational trainingprograms with the intensity of military bootcamps for newrecruits, intermingling socio emotional and tech skillslearning in an intense and experiential manner, in whatcould be referred to as skills accelerators. The authorsrefer to coding bootcamps in this report as theready-to-work model. The initiative aims to collect andshare examples and lessons of bootcamps in emerging markets,and measure the impact of bootcamp training on youthemployment in selected countries. The program seeks toestablish a framework of best practice for future projectsin technology upskilling in the developing world. Thisreport highlights the results of a randomized controlledtrial (RCT) carried out in Medellín (Colombia), complementedwith qualitative studies in Beirut (Lebanon) and Nairobi(Kenya). This report is arranged as follows: Chapter 1starts with introduction; Chapter 2 describes theintervention in Medellín,including the experimentalallocation of training slots to the bootcamp; Chapters 3 and4 present the qualitative studies in Beirut and Nairobi; Themain findings from the three interventions are presented inChapter 5; and lessons for future impact evaluations aredescribed in Chapter 6.