Reducing youth unemployment: innovative mentoring from SwitzerlandCost and Savings Clearly, the major financial saving offered by the mentoring programme is a reduction in the social insurance (unemployment benefit) bill. On the other hand, the cost of the programme involves 80% of one local government officer's time, along with 20% of an administrator's time (totally approximately 120,000 Swiss francs). The officer position organises and supports the mentoring programme. It promotes the programme through the school system, the unemployment office, local media and, of course, face to face, as well as assessing the mentors and mentees and partnering them together. It also involves providing an introductory course and organising five conferences a year for the mentors. As well as infrastructure costs, a further 35,000 Swiss francs are spent on: professional development of staff, meeting costs, publications, books, events, consultants and evaluators. |
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Emmeline Cooper wrote this case study for Governance International on 26 September 2011 |