Programme for the Generation of Inclusive Social Employment -Trabaja Perú (Ex Building Peru) (2006-)
2006-
The objective of the program is to generate employment, develop productive capacities and promote sustained and quality employment, with the purpose of increasing income and improving the employability of the population living in poverty and extreme poverty. This program operates by financing basic infrastructure projects with intensive use of unskilled labor, such as road paving, construction of sports slabs, irrigation canals, retaining walls and hydraulic defenses. This financing translates into salaries, purchase of materials, tools and safety equipment kits. Between 2006 and 2011, the program was called Construyendo Perú.
Characteristics
Unemployed and underemployed population living in poverty and extreme poverty, with priority to heads of households, young people between 18 and 29 years of age, people with disabilities and senior citizens.
National
1) Geographic: districts with higher levels of unemployment and poverty
2) Self-targeting: workers who are willing to earn 70% of the minimum wage
3) Individual targeting: proxy means testing
Households Targeting System (SISFHO)
Single Beneficiaries Registry (RUB)
When the project finishes
Institutionality
Supreme Decree N°012-2011-TR; Supreme Decree N°004-2012-TR; Directoral Resolution N° 002-2013-TP/DE
Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion
Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion
Government of Peru
1) Competitive projects
Unemployed and underemployed population living in urban areas in poverty and extreme poverty situation. There is a priority to head of households, young peopled aged between 18 and 29 years old, people with disabilities and elderly.
Transfers according to days worked.
According to works length
Direct participant
This modality has the largest budget allocation in the program and projects may be submitted by regional, provincial or district governments.
70% of the minimum wage
2) Non-competitive projects
All participants of the programme
Transfers according to days worked.
According to works length
Direct participant
To meet the demand for co-financing of projects under this characteristic, the Programme has developed the intervention modality known as Contingency Action, which will cover all those districts interested in co-financing with the Programme at the national level.
70% of the minimum wage
El impacto del programa "A trabajar Urbano": Ganancias de ingreso y utilidad de las obras
Chacaltana, Juan
2003
Documento de Trabajo, Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo y la Participación
Impact evaluation
Workfare programmes and their impact on the labour market : effectiveness of Construyendo Perú
Escudero, Verónica
2016
Research Department Working Paper No 12, OIT, Ginebra
Impact evaluation
Evaluación de Impacto del Programa Construyendo Perú. Informe final.
Macroconsult S.A.
2012
Impact evaluation