The Social Inclusion Project “Customized Employment Pilot Project”, launched by the Confederación Plena Inclusión España (Confederation of Full Inclusion Spain) in collaboration with the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration is framed within component 23, investment 7 “Fostering inclusive growth by linking social inclusion policies to the Minimum Basic Income” and is part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan financed with Next Generation Funds.
Approved in Spain in 2020, Minimum Basic Income (IMV) is a minimum income policy that aims to guarantee a basic income to vulnerable groups as well as providing ways to encourage them to integrate into society and the labor market. Within the framework of this policy, the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration (MISSM) set up the Inclusion Policy Lab, a strategy to encourage inclusion via socially innovative pilot projects. These projects were evaluated following rigorous scientific standards and using the Randomized Control Trial (RCT) methodology. The Social Inclusion Project “Customized Employment Pilot Project” was carried out in cooperation with the MISSM, Confederación Plena inclusión España, several entities of the Third Sector of Social Action that are part of Plena Inclusión, and of IDOCAL (the Institute for Research in Psychology of Human Resources, Organizational Development and Quality of Working Life) of the University of Valencia.
The goal of this project was to analyze the efficacy of the Customized Employment methodology, applying it to a group of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in order to compare it with another group with the same disabilities to which it was not applied.
Using an experimental randomized controlled trial approach, people with intellectual or developmental disabilities were randomly assigned to the controlled and experimental treatments. For the controlled treatment, people with intellectual or developmental disabilities continued to lead their usual lives, which included work activities. For the experimental treatment, individuals took part in a Customized Employment implementation program. The evaluation measured the impact in three areas based on indicators defined under the theory of change paradigm: employment, social inclusion and the well-being of people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities.
The project was carried out in 12 regions (Andalusia, Aragón, the Canary Islands, Castile and León, Catalonia, the Region of Madrid, the Region of Valencia, Extremadura, Galicia, La Rioja, the Principality of Asturias and the Region of Murcia) as well as one autonomous city (Ceuta). 512 people took part.
