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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Ratings of Strengthening Institutional Capacity and Management of the Education System Project for Djibouti were as follows: outcome was satisfactory, Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation quality was substantial.
... See More + Some of the lessons learned include: (i) Sound analytical underpinning is critical to identifying key areas of intervention; (ii) School grants offer an effective vehicle, not only to provide resources for important investments in schools, but also to build capacity of schools to prioritize and plan; (iii) To effect progress towards results‐based management, it is important to align Annual Work Plan (AWPs) with the national strategy and the minister’s management needs; and (iv) Local and continued support is critical especially in a low capacity context.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR4677 APR 30, 2019
Ratings of Sustainable Livelihoods for Returnees and Host Communities in the Senegal River Valley Project for Mauritania were as follows: outcome was satisfactory, Bank performance was satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation quality was modest.
... See More + Some of the lessons learned include: (i) the importance of conducting a rigorous market assessment prior to vocational training; (ii) the value of carrying out a full-fledged cost-benefit analysis during appraisal to ensure economically sustainable livelihoods; (iii) complementing support for economic activities with basic social services; and (iv) clustering small farmers or community groups to promote economy of scale.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR00004672 MAR 30, 2019
Ratings for the Vocational Training Improvement Project for India were as follows: outcome and Bank performance was moderately unsatisfactory and monitoring and evaluation (M and E) quality was modest.
... See More + Some lessons learned include: pilot models need to be assessed before scaling them up to reach 311 industrial training institute (ITIs). Consistent, structured, and periodic on-site monitoring, especially of outcome-related topics, is an essential part of good management practices. Marketing a new brand is essential to increase awareness and modify consumption patterns. Significantly empowering institutional management committees (IMCs), migrating them from their current role to a more institutional managerial and decision-making body under the public private partnership model, where the IMC, chaired by the employers, is vested with decision making powers and the attribution to manage a significant amount of funds. Empowering the states to take a more leading role in the day-to-day monitoring and coordinating of the various ITI and apprenticeship related interventions under Strengthening for Industrial Value Enhancement Project (STRIVE). Decrease the scope of the design by limiting the number of interventions and intensify their thoroughness.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR4452 MAR 26, 2019
The objective of the Accessing Overseas Employment Opportunities for Moroccan Youth Project is to strengthen institutional capacity to pilot the reform of international labor intermediation services in Morocco and better prepare the Moroccan workforce for greater integration with international labor markets.
... See More + In a letter dated September 19, 2018 the Recipient proposed to extend the project closing date by 30 months andallocate additional funds (US dollar 1.5 million) to implement the activities of the second phase of the pilot. Following the extension of the deadline for submission of the proposals to the MENA Transition Fund to October 15, 2018, a four-month extension request of the current closing date to February 28, 2019 was submitted to the Transition Fund for approval, on October 5, 2018 to allow the timely submission of the Additional Financing (AF) proposal to the Transition Fund and the internal processing and approval of the AF. This first four-month extension from October 31, 2018 to February 28, 2019 was approved by the MENA transition Fund on October 23, 2018 and by the Country Director on October 31, 2018. A second extension of the project closing date by an additional 26 months, to April 30, 2021, is also proposed as part of this restructuring in addition to allocate the additional funds, as originally requested by ANAPEC. The MENA Steering Committee approved the additional Grant in the amount of US dollar 1.5 million and the extension of the closing date on December 10, 2018.
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