Barbados: Supporting Entrepreneurs through the Job Opportunity for Business Scale Up (JOBS) Initiative

The USAID’s Job Opportunity for Business Scale Up (JOBS) is an initiative to promote post-secondary skills training in entrepreneurship through partnerships among U.S. and developing country institutions of higher education. The Barbados JOBS partnership between the Indiana University Kelley School of Business (IU-KSB) and the Cave Hill School of Business at the University of the West Indies (CHSB-UWI) is focused on the growth of an entrepreneurial culture and diversifying the service oriented economies in Barbados and neighboring countries.

The objectives of the evaluation were to assess the:

1. efficiency of external stakeholder engagement,
2. relevance of external stakeholder engagement and the intervention content,
3. effectiveness of the intervention,
4. potential for lasting effects, and
5. recommendations for partnership sustainability.