Basic Information
Country
Spain
Region
Catalunya
Governing level
Municipal
Funding
Budget (local currency)
€14.42 million
Budget (USD 2022)
$17.31 million
Budget currency
EUR
Funding type
Public
Additional funding source
External public
Funding description
The City of Barcelona covered the cost of the cash payments and some of the project staff, while European Union funding (4.854m EUR) funded most of the non-cash payments elements of the project. Partners also covered around 230k EUR of the non-cash payments budget.
Budget description
EUR 8.352m was the cost of the payments (calculated by summing the month-by-month statistics on expenditure from the executive report). The main project and research budget was 6.068m.
Timeline
Project start date
11/11/2016
Project start year
2016
Final project release date
01/02/2021
Length of project (days)
1543
Project length description
All partners enrolled on the project before the official submission to the UIA programme on March 30 2016 but team officially started to work from the start date given. Funding for project officially ended on 31st October 2019 but final executive report was published on the date given.
Experiment start date
01/11/2017
Experiment start year
2017
Experiment end date
31/10/2019
Experiment end year
2019
Number of start dates
1
Length of experiment (days)
729
Participants
Number of treatment groups
10
Sample size (intervention)
950
Unit of analysis
Households
Control group?
Yes
Control group sample size
383
Target group description
In order to be eventually selected households had to meet each and every one of the following requirements: 1. Be users of the Social Services Centres with an open file at the time of the call or have requested and fulfilled the requirements to become beneficiaries of the 0-16 Fund in 2017 or be a participant or have participated in the last year in the Làbora programme or be users of the Social Integration Service (SIS). 2. Registration in Barcelona of the members of the household from 30 June 2015 residence in one of the neighbourhoods of the Besòs Axis and commitment to remain so until the end of the pilot. 3. At least one member of the household had to be between 25 and 60 years of age on 31 July 2017 to be able to participate in the active policies (particularly in training and employment). 4. Effective cohabitation of all household members since legal or demographic changes (deaths divorces adoptions etc.) altered the amount of the MIS. 5. Sign the document accepting the conditions for the provision of aid in the assigned modality and accept the payment of 25% of the SMI in the Citizens Currency (REC). 6. Sign a commitment to participate in processes of direct collection of information and con- sent to monitoring through public administration databases. 7. The calculation of the SMI based on family income from the previous year had to be higher than €100. If they did not exceed the limit they could make a declaration of compliance that their current income did not exceed this threshold. 8. Households were excluded whose assets were greater than four years’ worth of the estimated value of the SMI discounting debts the main dwelling and a parking space.
Gender target
No
Income target
Yes
Age target (outside working age)
No
Family target
No
Labour market status target
No
Disability target
No
Occupation target
No
Industry target
No
Design and Implementation
Saturation
Dispersed
Legal powers
Municipality of Barcelona had authority to introduce last-resort social assistance
Evaluation
External
Conditionality
Mixed treatments
Taper rates
Mixed taper rates
Alternative interventions
Mixed