Digital Intervention Delivery in Remote Skilling
RCTClinical Trial
Physical lockdowns and public health restrictions disrupt traditional classroom training and in-person employment assistance for rural youth [2, 3]. Leveraging widely available mobile technologies enables continuous learning, information dissemination, and remote coordination during crisis periods [2, 10].
Picture this
Imagine transforming a local community bulletin board into a direct mobile messaging network that delivers instructional videos and personal coaching right into everyone's pocket. By using familiar smartphone applications, coordinators broadcast instructional videos and maintain direct messaging lines without needing physical gathering spaces.
What the evidence says
Evaluation is ongoing with baseline phone surveys completed prior to and during COVID-19 lockdowns, and 3-month post-intervention follow-up surveys conducted via phone [8, 10].
- Who was studied
- 1,100 youth participants organized into WhatsApp groups managed by Yuva Parivartan in rural and peri-urban Maharashtra, India [4, 5, 10].
- How
- Four-arm Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) evaluating remote video content combined with group versus private messaging over a 3-month intervention period [5, 6, 9, 10].
What to do
Deliver vocational video modules and peer interactions through established mobile messaging channels to maintain low-cost candidate engagement [6, 10].
From the source
"Over the course of three months, researchers provided the post-training assistance to both wage-employed and self-employed trainees through WhatsApp-a messaging application on smart phones-groups already managed by YP to facilitate information dissemination and peer-to-peer interaction." [10]
Providing Post-Training Assistance to Young Jobseekers to Improve Employment Outcomes in India