Harnessing the Demographic Dividend

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

The World Bank approved on February 14, 2020 — a $75 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA) in support of the Government of Mozambique’s efforts to realize its demographic dividend by increasing empowerment, access to education, and employment opportunities for youth, especially adolescent girls and young women. Mozambique has one of the highest fertility rates in Sub-Saharan Africa, with early marriage and adolescent pregnancy rates among the highest in the world. The very young age structure of its population can either exacerbate poverty or enhance prosperity. In fact, despite the country’s efforts in decreasing poverty, the total number of people living in poverty has grown. Because fertility is higher among the poor, poverty and inequality across generations can worsen.

The project funding and activities will contribute to the following:  a)- empower individuals, families and communities by providing information on sexual and reproductive health services as well as gender-based violence support  services; by addressing social norms that keep girls and women out of school and work; and by providing life skills support to adolescents, especially girls;  b)-  educate adolescents by addressing bottlenecks in girls educational enrollment, attendance, and attainment; and c)- increase employment opportunities for the current and future generations through business plan competitions and skills development programs. This will be done by supplying services to increase productivity of informal workers, as well as by supporting entrepreneurship activities with potential for job creation.

Additionally, the project will contribute to a better articulation and coordination of youth policies within government agencies, and between the government and its stakeholders, as well as fund capacity building programs for Mozambican institutions. This project is in full alignment with the Bank’s ongoing 2017-21 strategy, known as Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Mozambique, by supporting the strategy’s key priorities such as investing in human capital, as well as its cross-cutting goals on gender equity.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Mozambique

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Mozambique

Activity URL

Not applicable or unknown

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2020 -

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education

Quality

  • School-related gender-based violence

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Early/child marriage
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • HIV and STIs
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Policymakers

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Not applicable or unknown

School Level

Not applicable or unknown

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

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Program Approaches Back to Top

Life skills education

  • Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)
  • Gender, rights and power

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Education sector plans, budgets, policies, and data systems are more gender-equitable
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased test scores

Cross-cutting goals

Not applicable or unknown