Zambia : A Review of the World Bank Group Jobs Portfolio
This report analyzes the World Bank Group (WBG) portfolio in Zambia focused on jobs, referred to as the jobs portfolio, regarding its impact on outcomes related to job creation, job quality, and job access. The review is presented within the contex...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/653381499321706955/Zambia-A-review-of-the-World-Bank-Group-jobs-portfolio http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27933 |
| Summary: | This report analyzes the World Bank
Group (WBG) portfolio in Zambia focused on jobs, referred to
as the jobs portfolio, regarding its impact on outcomes
related to job creation, job quality, and job access. The
review is presented within the context of Zambia’s jobs
priorities: more good-quality jobs with traditionally
disadvantaged groups benefitting from opportunities to work.
It finds that the jobs portfolio is more focused on
intermediate-level outcomes related to jobs, such as
improving access to markets and firm performance. A range of
intervention types contributes to job creation (66 percent
of the reviewed portfolio), job quality (47 percent), and
job access (51 percent). Activities focused on spatial
development in value chains tend to support job creation in
the formal sector. Job quality outcomes include enhanced
worker productivity in informal agriculture where the
majority of Zambians still work. The WBG has primarily
supported job access through targeted interventions in
lagging regions. Further, the combined portfolios of the WBG
and let’s work partners show greater coverage of a range of
job quality and job access outcomes. Areas for future
support to improve job outcomes include macroeconomic and
regulatory support, skills development, and targeted support
for vulnerable populations and youth in particular. In
addition, projects need to be reinforced by sound monitoring
and evaluation (M and E) systems tracking results explicitly
related to jobs. |
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