World Bank Girls' Education and Women's Livelihoods (GEWEL) 2020-2028
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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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The programme has performed very well during 2023, and several of the objectives under the different components have exceeded their targets. Here are a few examples in summary: Social Cash Transfers (SCT) By end 2023, the SCT has scaled up to over 1.31 million households nationwide, surpassing the end project target of 1.026 million. This represents about 39% of the population and 82% of the extreme poor, making it one of the best safety net coverages in the region. The expansion of the caseload and the increase in the transfer value have strengthened household resilience through predictable and reliable cash assistance, enabling them to cope with climate and other shocks. The SCT has been effectively used to respond to emergencies, such as drought in 2019, COVID19 in 2020, price shocks in 2023, and with plans to address drought impacts in 2024. SCT has driven improvements in digital payments through the Zambia Integrated Social Protection Information System (ZISPIS). By beginning 2024, 66% of the payroll was paid through the rural digital Pay Point Manager (PPM) modality and 34% through the urban digital payment service provider (PSP) modality, marking a significant urban model scaleup. Despite ongoing operational challenges, payment functionalities have improved, reducing failure rates substantially. From 2024 the system will allow the Ministry of Community Development and Social Welfare (MCDSS) to send bulk SMS delivery through ZISPIS, with messages translated into seven local languages for the SCT Nutrition messaging. Keeping Girls in School (KGS) In 2023, 80,474 out of 94,075 eligible girls (85.5 percent) received the Education Grant, with ongoing payments and reconciliations in eight districts expected to be completed by midyear 2024. The KGS Mobile App will be used to digitalize the enrolment verification checklist, enhancing KGS MIS functionality and improving the efficiency and timeliness of Education Grant payments. The KGS piloted Sexual Rights and Gender Based Violence (SRGBV) Clubs in schools to provide safe spaces for discussing gender norms and GBV issues, training 120 teachers as mentors and benefiting 2,926 girls. The pilot, conducted in Mpongwe, Zambezi, and Kasama districts, will be evaluated for national scaleup under GEWEL 2. The project also piloted and scaled up the Case Management System (CMS) to identify KGS girls at risk of dropping out and retain them in schools, as well as bring those that have dropped out back. Following the pilot's success, the Government allocated resources to expand CMS to nonKGS schools. By April 2024, the CMS had rolled out in 16 nonKGS districts and operationalized in 46 KGS districts across 1,296 schools, with plans to expand further using GRZ funding. A total of 1,040 provincial and district staff and 12,113 school and community members have been trained in the KGS CMS. Concerns about the high dropout rate for KGS girls in grade 9 led to agreements to enhance academic clinics under GEWEL 2. KGS beneficiaries are increasingly accessing opportunities for higher education, both via a specific initiative by MoE for KGS as well as general bursary schemes, incl the CDF. Supporting Womens Livelihoods (SWL) Although not supported by Sweden under this phase results from SWL are relevant for our engagement as we intend to support under GEWEL 2. By April 2024, SWL reached 139,351 beneficiaries across 81 districts, exceeding the target of 129,400. Beneficiaries have continued their savings groups (SG), saving substantial amounts for livelihoods and consumption needs. The digitalization of the SG Pilot has concluded positively, with 98% of respondents recommending the adoption of the digital record book and cash box. Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) and Communications The GRM remains broadly functional, but 40% of complaints (337) remain unresolved in the last six months. The SCT GRM system may under report complaints due to inadequate use of reporting mechanisms. A harmonized GRM Manual has been developed and validated. The GBV responsive GRM continues to roll out nationwide, with no serious incidents reported so far. GBV training material for SWL and SCT has been adapted, and training for all implementing staff was completed in March 2024. Implementation of the GBV Action Plan is progressing, with steps taken to establish a GBV call center. Efforts to refurbish the call center and sensitize the public around it and the GBV dashboard are ongoing. There has been progress on communication and sensitization plans, however implementation needs to speed up to address critical awareness gaps, particularly regarding SCT mobile payments and shock responses. A Harmonized Communications and Outreach Strategy, a targeted mobile payments awareness campaign, and a broadbased communications plan on drought response ECT is underway.
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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