Summative evaluation of the Aboriginal Skills and Employment Partnership Program : Évaluation sommative du programme Partenariat pour les compétences et l'emploi des Autochtones : rapport final

The evaluation strengths included the use of state-of-the-art methods to estimate the net impacts for the participation in the first nine ASEP projects. [...] The purpose of this analysis was to test if the particular focus of ASEP on industry, more direct involvement of the private sector in the programming, and matching of program delivery to the labour market produced better outcomes than the delivery model used by AHRDAs, which is less demand driven. [...] In regard to the incidence of employment, ASEP participants had a statistically significant decrease of -2.4 percentage points in the participation start year and -2.9 percentage points in the third year following the beginning of participation compared to AHRDA participants. [...] Summative Evaluation of the Aboriginal Skills and Employment Partnership Program ix From one year preceding participation to one year preceding the survey interview, the ASEP survey respondents reduced the amount of time spent unemployed by -0.7 months and the amount of time spent on Social Assistance by -0.3 months. [...] These were related to the collaboration of partners in ensuring that both the industry’s and the participant’s needs were well understood and were applied to client assessment and to the design of training and supports.