Ratings of Energy Sector Capacity Building Project (ESCBP) for Tanzania were as follows: outcome was moderately unsatisfactory, Bank performance was moderately unsatisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation quality was modest.
... See More + Some of the lessons learned include: (i) the process of opening up the power sector to foreign investment through Public Private Partnership (PPPs) is both technically and politically challenging; (ii) complex projects with many components and many implementing agencies, such as this project, need to have a strong project management unit (PMU) in all of its major implementing agencies; (iii) efficient training programs need to be based on the recommendations of a needs assessment and analysis; (iv) technical assistance projects should consider limiting the number of participating institutions and focus on their core objective; and (v) based on the experience of implementation of ESCBP, a stand-alone technical assistance (TA) requires strong government ownership (championship), clear mandate, and focused support for a defined activity in the sector’s operations.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR4784 JUN 27, 2019
Adolescent girls and young women are a critical group for India and the state of Jharkhand; a group with unmet aspirations and tremendous potential to contribute to the growth and development of the state.
... See More + Their stark vulnerabilities point to an urgent need for comprehensive empowering interventions, focused on education and employment. Their access to services and programs remains limited and it is in this context that the Government of Jharkhand with the support from the Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice of the World Bank designed the Tejaswini – Socioeconomic Empowerment of Adolescent Girls and Young Women Project. The project serves as a best practice example of how to leverage context-specific diagnostics and global evidence to design a holistic package of services to improve outcomes for girls and young women in a low capacity environment. This note highlights the preparation process, the resulting project design, and the status. The note will be updated to include results as implementation progresses.
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The vocational education and training (VET) school study's purpose was to describe the current status of secondary VET schools in the Prešov region, identify areas preventing schools from achieving a higher quality of education, and pinpoint areas for school improvement.
... See More + The main objective is to conduct an assessment of employers and secondary VET schools and work with the Prešov region education department to more effectively pursue European Union (EU) structural funds to implement needed changes in line with study findings. The project has three main activities consisting of: in-depth interviews and focus group sessions with a representational group of business stakeholders to assess the potential mismatch (Activity 1); an assessment of secondary VET schools to identify gaps between the existing curriculum and demanded skills and produce a final report with recommendations for altering course offerings to match the labour market (Activity 2); and an examination of several prioritized secondary VET schools to produce recommendations of the needs and costs to implement major changes and improvements required of the curriculum and infrastructure to meet market needs (Activity 3). The World Bank and Slovakia Catching-up Region Initiative (CURI) VET team recommends the development of transformation plans and investment packages for other secondary vocational schools in the founding competence of PSK. The team also recommends the creation and approval of result-oriented strategic documents for individual secondary vocational schools based on the analysis of the current state and defining the future desired state.
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The objective of the European Union (EU) Cohesion Policy is to narrow development gaps and reducedisparities between member countries and regions.
... See More + To this extent, around 461 billion Euros of European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) for the programming period 2014 – 2020 have been allocated to help the EU regions become more competitive. However, not all the EU regions have beenable to fully take advantage of the benefits of EU growth due to the effects of the 2008/2009 economic crisis, and due to a host of structural problems. Although its surface area of 49,035 square kilometers and its 5.4 million inhabitants make it a small country, the Slovak Republic is one of the countries with the highest regional disparity in the EU. The Bratislava region, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, was the eighth richest region in the EU in 2017. On the other hand, the Eastern Slovak Republic (nomenclature of territorial units for statistics [NUTS] II level), that includes the Kosice and Presov regions (NUTS III level), belongs to the poorest regions in the EU, reaching only 54 percent of the EU regional GDP per capita. The Slovak Republic's rapid economic growth in the last twenty years has not spilled over from Bratislava to the Presov Region and other outlying regions.
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