Social Protection through the GEWEL project 2020-2024
Activity-ID : SE-0-SE-6-12888A0101-ZMB-16012The Girls' Education and Women's Empowerment and Livelihood Project (GEWEL) started in 2016. It is a cooperation between the World Bank and the Government of Zambia through the three implementing ministries: The Ministry of Community Development and Social Services, the Ministry of General Education and the Ministry of Gender...
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Total committed amount: USD 15,201,364
Total paid amount: USD 15,135,939
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The Girls' Education and Women's Empowerment and Livelihood Project (GEWEL) started in 2016. It is a cooperation between the World Bank and the Government of Zambia through the three implementing ministries: The Ministry of Community Development and Social Services, the Ministry of General Education and the Ministry of Gender. The overall objective of the project is "to increase access to livelihood support for women and access to secondary education for disadvantaged adolescent girls in extremely poor households in selected districts". GEWEL supports the achievement of human capital outcomes through educating, employing, and empowering women and adolescent girls from the poorest households. The project consists of three components. The first component, Supporting Women’s Livelihoods (SWL), provides women from very poor households with a package consisting of life and business skills training, a productive grant, mentorship and support to form savings groups. The second component, Keeping Girls in School (KGS), provides school fees for female secondary students from the Social Cash Transfer households, and the third component, Support to Institutional Strengthening and System Building (ISSB), provides support to three ministries involved in the implementation of the project. The project was scheduled to end in September 2020 but Additional Financing (AF) during the years 2020 - 2024 will extend the project until 30 April 2024. The proposed AF is based on lessons learned from the project implementation including assessments, evaluations and reports. One important piece of input to this process was a Rapid Assessment of the Keeping Girls in School component funded by Sweden through an Externally Financed Output (Contribution id: 13450). The AF maintains the overall objective of the project but aims to deepen and widen the human capital impacts of GEWEL by expanding coverage and providing more complementary support to poor women and girls. This will be achieved by (a) financing the scale-up of the KGS and SWL components to additional beneficiaries, (b) introducing a subcomponent under the KGS component on strengthening social cash transfers (SCTs), (c) introducing a more concerted approach to mitigating and responding to the risks of GBV for women and girls in project areas; and (d) enhancing the focus on strengthening core social protection systems to better ensure the effective delivery of this support. As part of the AF, the World Bank intends to establish a Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) enabling Cooperating Partners to contribute grant funding to the Project as well as for Bank Executed activities related on systems strengthening related to the GEWEL project. The total budget for the AF is 177 million USD with the following breakdown: World Bank Group Financing: IDA Credit 142 million USD Non-World Bank Group Financing: 35 million USD, out of which Grant funding by Cooperating Partners: - UK: British Department for International Development (DFID) 21,5 million USD (17 million GBP) for Project Component 2b during 2020 - 2022. - SWEDEN: Swedish Intl. Dev. Cooperation Agency (Sida) 13,5 million USD for the Project Components 2a and 2b. In addition, Sida will contribute 1 million USD for Bank Executed activities on system strengthening related to the GEWEL project. In total Sida will contribute 14,5 million USD to the MDTF during 2020 - 2022. In addition, the planned contribution of the Government of Zambia stands at 349.5 million USD to the Social Cash Transfers.
Type (Click to sort Ascending) | Date (Click to sort Ascending) | Value (Click to sort Ascending) |
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| Commitment |
5/7/2020
| USD 15,201,364 |
| Disbursement |
5/28/2020
| USD 6,514,870 |
| Disbursement |
1/28/2021
| USD 4,663,690 |
| Disbursement |
3/28/2022
| USD 3,957,379 |
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| Gender Equality |
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| Aid to Environment |
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| Participatory Development/Good Governance |
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| Trade Development |
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| Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity |
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| Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Framework Convention on Climate Change - Mitigation |
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| Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Framework Convention on Climate Change - Adaptation |
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| Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Convention to Combat Desertification |
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| Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH) |
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| Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) |
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| Disability |
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Expected results
Project Development Objective To support the Government of Zambia to increase access to livelihood support for women and access to secondary education for disadvantaged adolescent girls in extremely poor households in selected districts. Project Outcomes 1. Increase access to livelihood support for women 2. Increase access to secondary education for disadvantaged adolescent girls Project Components/Intermediate results 1: Supporting Women's Livelihoods 2: Keeping Girls in School - 2a: Keeping Girls in School - 2b. Social Cash Transfer 3. Institutional Strengthening and Systems Building - 3a: Gender Equality and Gender-Based Violence - 3b: Social Protection
Results
There has been some delays in implementation during 2021 mainly affecting the Keeping Girls in Schools (KGS) component due to Covid-19 restrictions (closing down of schools). However, the overall progress of the programme is satisfactory, with some results actually exceeding expectations. Below are some key results: Social Cash Transfer (SCT) payments have been timelier and more predictable since the beginning of 2021 and the program has scaled up to almost 30% of the population and 50% of the poor with a more adequate transfer value. Over 973,000 households received cash transfers in 2021 exceeding the target of 750,000 through the recent scale up. The adequacy of the transfer value was also increased in 2021 and 2022 (from ZMW150- ZMW200 per month for most target groups and from ZMW300 to ZMW400 for people with disabilities), making it more in line with its original value and with other countries in the region. World Bank simulations show that the expansion of the SCT in 2021 and the increase in the transfer value is expected to have reduced poverty in Zambia by 6% points. Since the beginning of 2021, work has been on-going to finalize the development of ZISPIS as a digital payment system for SCT, and potentially to be used by other programs in future. The ZISPIS software is now complete and has been successfully integrated to 8 different banks and mobile money operators which are ready to make digital payments. The system is expected to be ready for full roll-out by mid 2022. The Keeping Girls in School (KGS) has scaled up to a total of 39 districts and supported over 58,000 girls with tuition and examination fees cumulatively to date, which already exceeds the end of project target of 43,500. An education grant was also provided through the SCT to over 7,000 households with KGS girls. 72% of KGS girls progressed to the next grade and 93% of girls enrolled in grade 12 completed it successfully. As school fees were abolished in Zambia in 2021, the project was quickly restructured to utilize the savings to address the other barriers which lead adolescent girls to drop out from school and expand the target number of girls to 80,000. These activities include increasing the already existing education grant (from K250 to K600 per year) for other school necessities such as uniforms, shoes and books; increase the number of girls who recieve the grant to 80 000; expanding the number of girls who benefit from bursaries for boarding as well as providing minor repairs for more schools boarding facilities; rolling out a case management system to support girls at risk of dropping out; and initiating school clubs that increase awareness among students as well as parents on issues of gender norms, sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence. A Gender Based Violence (GBV) action plan was implemented including a Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) that is sensitive to GBV issues rolled out countrywide to all 116 districts. This has been a dialogue issue for Sweden and a weak GRM was identified as a risk at the projects initial stage. A GBV referral pathway mapping has also been finalized in all 116 districts, as well as case management pilot to prevent girls from dropping out of school implemented in three districts, helping 240 girls to remain in school. Minor repairs to over 161 weekly boarding facilities to increase girls safety were also undertaken.
Full description
The Girls' Education and Women's Empowerment and Livelihood Project (GEWEL) started in 2016. It is a cooperation between the World Bank and the Government of Zambia through the three implementing ministries: The Ministry of Community Development and Social Services, the Ministry of General Education and the Ministry of Gender. The overall objective of the project is "to increase access to livelihood support for women and access to secondary education for disadvantaged adolescent girls in extremely poor households in selected districts". GEWEL supports the achievement of human capital outcomes through educating, employing, and empowering women and adolescent girls from the poorest households. The project consists of three components. The first component, Supporting Women’s Livelihoods (SWL), provides women from very poor households with a package consisting of life and business skills training, a productive grant, mentorship and support to form savings groups. The second component, Keeping Girls in School (KGS), provides school fees for female secondary students from the Social Cash Transfer households, and the third component, Support to Institutional Strengthening and System Building (ISSB), provides support to three ministries involved in the implementation of the project. The project was scheduled to end in September 2020 but Additional Financing (AF) during the years 2020 - 2024 will extend the project until 30 April 2024. The proposed AF is based on lessons learned from the project implementation including assessments, evaluations and reports. One important piece of input to this process was a Rapid Assessment of the Keeping Girls in School component funded by Sweden through an Externally Financed Output (Contribution id: 13450). The AF maintains the overall objective of the project but aims to deepen and widen the human capital impacts of GEWEL by expanding coverage and providing more complementary support to poor women and girls. This will be achieved by (a) financing the scale-up of the KGS and SWL components to additional beneficiaries, (b) introducing a subcomponent under the KGS component on strengthening social cash transfers (SCTs), (c) introducing a more concerted approach to mitigating and responding to the risks of GBV for women and girls in project areas; and (d) enhancing the focus on strengthening core social protection systems to better ensure the effective delivery of this support. As part of the AF, the World Bank intends to establish a Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) enabling Cooperating Partners to contribute grant funding to the Project as well as for Bank Executed activities related on systems strengthening related to the GEWEL project. The total budget for the AF is 177 million USD with the following breakdown: World Bank Group Financing: IDA Credit 142 million USD Non-World Bank Group Financing: 35 million USD, out of which Grant funding by Cooperating Partners: - UK: British Department for International Development (DFID) 21,5 million USD (17 million GBP) for Project Component 2b during 2020 - 2022. - SWEDEN: Swedish Intl. Dev. Cooperation Agency (Sida) 13,5 million USD for the Project Components 2a and 2b. In addition, Sida will contribute 1 million USD for Bank Executed activities on system strengthening related to the GEWEL project. In total Sida will contribute 14,5 million USD to the MDTF during 2020 - 2022. In addition, the planned contribution of the Government of Zambia stands at 349.5 million USD to the Social Cash Transfers.
Transactions
Type (Click to sort Ascending) | Date (Click to sort Ascending) | Value (Click to sort Ascending) |
|---|---|---|
| Commitment |
5/7/2020
| USD 15,201,364 |
| Disbursement |
5/28/2020
| USD 6,514,870 |
| Disbursement |
1/28/2021
| USD 4,663,690 |
| Disbursement |
3/28/2022
| USD 3,957,379 |
Policy markers
Marker (Click to sort Ascending) | Principal objective (Click to sort Ascending) | Significant objective (Click to sort Ascending) | Not targeted (Click to sort Ascending) |
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| Gender Equality |
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-
| |
| Aid to Environment |
-
|
-
| |
| Participatory Development/Good Governance |
-
|
-
| |
| Trade Development |
-
|
-
| |
| Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity |
-
|
-
| |
| Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Framework Convention on Climate Change - Mitigation |
-
|
-
| |
| Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Framework Convention on Climate Change - Adaptation |
-
|
-
| |
| Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Convention to Combat Desertification |
-
|
-
| |
| Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH) |
-
|
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| Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) |
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|
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| |
| Disability |
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Documents
- Agreement World Bank Support to SP through GEWEL - pdf
- Decision on Contribution World Bank Support to SP through GEWEL - pdf
Results
Expected results
Project Development Objective To support the Government of Zambia to increase access to livelihood support for women and access to secondary education for disadvantaged adolescent girls in extremely poor households in selected districts. Project Outcomes 1. Increase access to livelihood support for women 2. Increase access to secondary education for disadvantaged adolescent girls Project Components/Intermediate results 1: Supporting Women's Livelihoods 2: Keeping Girls in School - 2a: Keeping Girls in School - 2b. Social Cash Transfer 3. Institutional Strengthening and Systems Building - 3a: Gender Equality and Gender-Based Violence - 3b: Social Protection
Results
There has been some delays in implementation during 2021 mainly affecting the Keeping Girls in Schools (KGS) component due to Covid-19 restrictions (closing down of schools). However, the overall progress of the programme is satisfactory, with some results actually exceeding expectations. Below are some key results: Social Cash Transfer (SCT) payments have been timelier and more predictable since the beginning of 2021 and the program has scaled up to almost 30% of the population and 50% of the poor with a more adequate transfer value. Over 973,000 households received cash transfers in 2021 exceeding the target of 750,000 through the recent scale up. The adequacy of the transfer value was also increased in 2021 and 2022 (from ZMW150- ZMW200 per month for most target groups and from ZMW300 to ZMW400 for people with disabilities), making it more in line with its original value and with other countries in the region. World Bank simulations show that the expansion of the SCT in 2021 and the increase in the transfer value is expected to have reduced poverty in Zambia by 6% points. Since the beginning of 2021, work has been on-going to finalize the development of ZISPIS as a digital payment system for SCT, and potentially to be used by other programs in future. The ZISPIS software is now complete and has been successfully integrated to 8 different banks and mobile money operators which are ready to make digital payments. The system is expected to be ready for full roll-out by mid 2022. The Keeping Girls in School (KGS) has scaled up to a total of 39 districts and supported over 58,000 girls with tuition and examination fees cumulatively to date, which already exceeds the end of project target of 43,500. An education grant was also provided through the SCT to over 7,000 households with KGS girls. 72% of KGS girls progressed to the next grade and 93% of girls enrolled in grade 12 completed it successfully. As school fees were abolished in Zambia in 2021, the project was quickly restructured to utilize the savings to address the other barriers which lead adolescent girls to drop out from school and expand the target number of girls to 80,000. These activities include increasing the already existing education grant (from K250 to K600 per year) for other school necessities such as uniforms, shoes and books; increase the number of girls who recieve the grant to 80 000; expanding the number of girls who benefit from bursaries for boarding as well as providing minor repairs for more schools boarding facilities; rolling out a case management system to support girls at risk of dropping out; and initiating school clubs that increase awareness among students as well as parents on issues of gender norms, sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence. A Gender Based Violence (GBV) action plan was implemented including a Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) that is sensitive to GBV issues rolled out countrywide to all 116 districts. This has been a dialogue issue for Sweden and a weak GRM was identified as a risk at the projects initial stage. A GBV referral pathway mapping has also been finalized in all 116 districts, as well as case management pilot to prevent girls from dropping out of school implemented in three districts, helping 240 girls to remain in school. Minor repairs to over 161 weekly boarding facilities to increase girls safety were also undertaken.