Impact Study of internship programme on Harambee candidates

Momentum is a leading South African financial services provider. It recently introduced an internship programme to identify and provide young people, who have had work experience, with an opportunity for long-term employment as financial advisers. The people were recruited from Harambee, an organisation that addresses skills gaps of unemployed young people and links them to employment opportunities.

Genesis was contracted to conduct a study of how participation in the internship influenced young people's social and economic circumstances. The purpose of the impact study was to determine whether the internship programme met its objectives, and to identify areas of greater or lesser success to inform the implementation of future financial-adviser internship programmes.