Guidance note 15

Impacts of Public Employment Programmes

The objective of this note is to provide policy-makers and practitioners with an overview of the various key issues related to the potential impacts of public
employment programmes (PEP) and to understand the nature and complexity of conducting a comprehensive impact assessment. This Note also provides a selection of results from past impact evaluations and provide an overview of the type of results that have been obtained at times to highlight some of the implications for designing programmes to maximize their desired impact.