G²LM|LIC - Reducing Extreme Poverty through Skill Training for Industry Job Placement

The interventions were conducted with an active collaboration with a local NGO (GUK) in the north-eastern part (Gaibandha) of Bangladesh, one of the poverty stricken areas of Bangladesh. To select the sample for this experiment, a short survey to recruit eligible participants (eligibility requires that the prospective participant is interested in training if offered an opportunity) from a large population on the basis of age, education and poverty status was conducted.

After having the list of eligible participants for the study, each participant was randomly assigned to either a control group or to receive one of the interventions from the above mentioned four treatments. Before the randomization, a baseline study has been conducted to collect detailed information about the participants and their households. Six months after receiving the intervention, the participants were surveyed again over the phone for a short follow-up survey.

A detailed panel survey of each participant was done after one year of the intervention. A second follow-up survey of the participants was done 18 months after the intervention. To track the participants for the purpose of the survey, each participant was given a mobile-phone connection and airtime topup incentive as a reward for participating in each of theses surveys.