The City Managed To Get Only 26% of Young People Who Stipulated To Stay In School During 2014
<p style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">The goal was retain 10,000 city kids. It was through the Work Study program, which provides an economic incentive to prevent abandonment of the educational system. The AGCBA noted that there was an overestimation in the goal. It also recommended strengthening the dissemination of the plan, since the existing are not sufficient to meet the objectives and measure the impact of broadcast design.</span></p>
Work is Study is part of Buenos Aires Citizenship Program and aims to retain or reintegrate into the educational system young people between 18 and 29 years of age through scholarships. But the Auditor General of the City of Buenos Aires (AGCBA) reported that during 2014 "they managed to get only 26% of the 10,000 citizens to who was intended to achieve."
This failure, which is in the order of 74%, is due to an overestimation of the scopes designed for that year. The audit team consulted the Director General Management and Operational which was the criteria used to program the physical targets and the answer was that it was done "based on the beneficiary households on Citizenship of the City of Buenos Aires".
The work of the AGCBA, which was approved in September 2015, states that "considering that during 2013 the program awarded grants to 3,185 young on average, there is no justification to be estimated for the following year a goal three times higher”.
The goal, the report said, "should consider the number of beneficiaries assisted in previous years and how was the dissemination of the program," among other issues, so that "estimating the physical goal is consistent with the real possibilities of scope."
On the disclosure of Work is Study the watchdog highlighted "the various outreach strategies that were implemented over time" and that initially were called to participate by sending letters to potential favored. Currently, "to the technological evolution, the call is made through social networks, mail and through a 1800, which is a very consulted phone holders Citizenship of the City of Buenos Aires with plan beneficiaries being the potential children."
During the 2014 reporting period, "new strategies as talks in schools, distribution of leaflets in tertiaries, vocational training centers and homes, and even attended cultural events like the Jesus Fest in City of Rock were implemented".
Despite efforts from the direction of the program say they "do not have statistics for the impact of the dissemination plan." In this situation the AGCBA concluded that they must "reinforce" the promotion of To study work because "not enough", since it only managed to meet 26% of the proposed target "representing 2594 young people about los10.000 alleged.”
In the city, according to the Information Unit, Monitoring and Evaluation prepared by the same program, "there is still 20% of young people who neither study nor work, for which you have to design specific actions".
Regarding the budget, Work To study, which in 2014 gave grants of $ 530 on a card Purchase Pre Charged for use in shops belonging to the Citizenship of the City, "underused its budget by 22.76%." This means that of the total funds available they did not use more than $2 million.