Social Protection through the GEWEL project 2020-2024
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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 proj...
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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.
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Result
The GEWEL project is really a flagship social protection project, both for the Governement of Zambia and the implementing partners like UN and World Bank. The project has exceeded most of its targets in the past two years (postCovid). Social Cash Transfers (SCT) The SCT continues to make timely payments and is scaling up to exceed project targets. The component has now scaled up to 1,097,657 poor and vulnerable households, exceeding the project target of 1,027,000. The current caseload represents about 29 percent of the population and 54 percent of people living in poverty one of the best social assistance projects in Africa. The SCT is expected to scale up to 1,374,469 households by the end of 2023, exceeding the Governments annual target of 1.3 million. The progress has reflected the Governments continued commitment to the SCT, as demonstrated by the scale up and the recent (March 2023) pronouncement of an additional allocation to the SCT of about USD 30 million from government funds. Digital payments through the Zambia Integrated Social Protection Information System (ZISPIS) have started rolling out nationwide. The mode of payments to SCT beneficiaries encompass three payment modalities, namely Urban, Rural, and Traditional. The first two modalities are digital and are under the ZISPIS, while the last covers households not yet migrated to the ZISPIS. The rollout of the ZISPIS digital payment modalities continues in 2023, although delays have been experienced in the rollout of the Urban modality due to operational challenges, in particular due to the lack of phone ownership by beneficiaries. As of April 2023, three districts and five provincial capitals have transitioned to the Urban modality, while the remaining three provincial capitals and Lusaka will transition by June 2023. Further, all 116 districts are being gradually transitioned to the Rural modality. It is planned that full transition to Urban and Rural payment modalities will be completed by October 2023. To date 34 percent of the payments were handled digitally. Keeping Girls in School (KGS) This component has performed commendably, having exceeded its end project target of 80,000 girls, with 130,175 girls enrolled since project inception in 2016. It is positive to note that 1,333 graduated KGS girls have been supported by the government with scholarships to attend tertiary education. There has been strong improvements in the timeliness of the payment of the Education Grants, with 69,104 girls having been validated for payment in April 2023, representing 86 percent of the caseload target, an improvement from 66 percent in 2022. Validation is still slow due to the manual verification and onboarding process. The Bank has provided technical assistance to digitalize the enrolment verification checklist, using the KGS enrollment app as well as integrating the KGS Information Managment System in the ZISPIS. For the first time 100 percent of the boarding fees has been payed to 17,756 girls on time by March 2023, and 16.3 million ZMW was secured through government funding to undertake major boarding school renovations. The Case Management System (CMS) aims at adressing dropouts and girls who are eligible for KGS but do not take advantage of the opportunity. After being piloted in three districts (Nalolo, Lufwanyama, and Petauke) the CMS rollout is ongoing in 400 schools in 13 districts, with planned scale up across all 49 KGS districts by end June 2023.
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
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