Girls' Education and Women's Empowerment and Livelihood Project (GEWEL)

  • P Project/Program

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Key Information

The Girl's Education and Women's Empowerment and Livelihoods Project for the Republic of Zambia will 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. The main beneficiaries of the proposed project will be women aged 19 to 64 years old who are fit for work and adolescent girls aged 14 to 18 years old living in extremely poor households in rural areas. The project consists of three components: component 1, supporting women’s livelihoods; component 2, keeping girls in school; and component 3, institutional strengthening and systems building. The first component supports women’s livelihoods, the second component supports the Keeping Girls in School Initiative, and the third component supports institutional strengthening and system building. The proposed project will not only improve livelihoods and expand access to education through Components 1 and 2 but also aims to improve targeting by building and strengthening systems for implementation. The creation of these systems under this project is expected to further increase the interest of the Government (and external financiers) in investing in livelihood interventions and in covering secondary school fees by channeling funds through the systems that will be set up through this project. Components 1 and 2 will both target extremely poor households, but the categorical targeting used in each component will differ to avoid the same households benefitting from both interventions. Component 1 will target women in households that are not SCTS beneficiaries but are extremely poor and have available labor. Component 2 will target adolescent girls aged 14 to 18 years old in extremely poor households that have high labor dependency ratios


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Zambia

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Zambia

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2015 - 2024

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Zambia Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS), Zambia Ministry of Education

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Secondary completion

Other skills

  • Financial literacy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Gender equality

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Other community members - female, Youth

Age

14 - 64

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Technical assistance/capacity building to civil society organizations

Policy/legal environment

  • System-wide review and reform

Reducing economic barriers

  • Financial literacy training
  • Income-generating activities
  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Gender parity and non-discrimination are promoted at all subjects/education levels
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased secondary school enrolment

Cross-cutting goals

  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being