World Bank's Umbrella Trust Fund on Jobs, phase 2 (2020-2024)
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The contribution constitutes a continued support to the second phase of the World Bank's Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) for Jobs (2020-2024) of 80 MSEK. This is a continuation of the support to the fist phase (2015-2020) which was 54 MSEK. The objectives of the Fund are: a) To support the design and implementation of comprehensive, integrated and high-impact...
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The contribution constitutes a continued support to the second phase of the World Bank's Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) for Jobs (2020-2024) of 80 MSEK. This is a continuation of the support to the fist phase (2015-2020) which was 54 MSEK. The objectives of the Fund are: a) To support the design and implementation of comprehensive, integrated and high-impact jobs strategies for WBG client countries b) To advance global knowledge on the most effective policies and activities for sustainable jobs, especially for the most vulnerable groups The work is organised through three windows: Window 1 - Supporting Jobs Lending at Scale Window 2 - Measurement Agenda Window 3 - Global knowledge production through External Partnerships and Innovation The aim for the second phase is to raise a total of equivalent to 469,3 MSEK.
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The World Bank is one of the leading global actors in the area of employment. The Jobs Groups work contribute to both normative global knowledge production as well as strengthening of institutional capacity at country level to develop and implement strategies, policies and programmes for more and better jobs for people living in poverty. Institutional capacity at country level In Mozambique, the Jobs Group supported design of a project component supporting MSMEs in the country to grow and create formal jobs. The project supports the Government of Mozambique in increasing empowerment, access to education, and employment opportunities for targeted youth. The project operationalizes the findings of Job Diagnostics report to (i) support formal jobs creation through small and medium enterprises (SMEs) by incentivizing firms to invest in job creating activities and facilitating labor market insertion of youth in the country; and on (ii) improving the productivity and skills of underemployed vulnerable youth by connecting them to jobs in the private sector. Creating wage jobs through enterprise development and improving the quality of low-productivity jobs are complementary strategies, not alternatives, and should be pursued simultaneously. [NAT/INST] [M1] Source: Jobs Umbrella Multi-Donor Trust Fund Annual Report 2021 In Cambodia, work was done to identify policy reforms to create green jobs in conservation-compatible value chains, that are being translated into regulations for the upcoming Development Policy Loan (DPL) and the Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Cambodia. [NAT/INST] [M1] Source: Jobs Umbrella Multi-Donor Trust Fund Annual Report 2021 The Fund supported Bangladesh Environmental Sustainability and Transformation Project that aims to strengthen the capacity of the Government of Bangladesh in environmental management and pilot new financing mechanisms to promote green investments in targeted sectors. The grant financed a jobs report on the bricks sector, a priority sector, that provided recommendations on the scaling up of clean and non-fired brick production technologies that have been adopted in project design. The report promotes commercial financing of such investments through a credit guarantee scheme which are expected to significantly reduce Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) issues of the sector and transform the sectors informal jobs to formal ones. [NAT/INST] [M1] Source: Jobs Umbrella Multi-Donor Trust Fund Annual Report 2021 In Turkey, the Fund contributed to improving the conditions for formal agricultural employment opportunities for refugees in select host communities through the Agricultural Employment Support for Refugees and Turkish Citizens through Enhanced Market Linkages Project, and the project Support for Transition to Labor Market for People under Temporary and International Protection. The analytical work has been critical in informing different aspects of the projects implementation including (a) modifying the outreach strategy to farmers and workers and (b) guiding the discussions with the project implementing agencies on the subsidy levels farmers will be willing to accept in order to formally hire workers. Further, by providing crucial insights into the functioning of rural labor markets, the grant-funded activities will contribute to the larger policy dialogue on transitioning refugees toward formal employment. In 2022, the team finalized a matching algorithm that will be used to match workers to jobs. The team developed and finalized key inputs for matching, such as the worker screening tool to collect information on work history, skills, and job preferences. The worker screening tool has been used to collect information on over 3,000 workers. The team also worked with a matching expert to develop the algorithm, and it is expected to be deployed in the project provinces over the coming months. [NAT/INST] [M1] Source: Jobs Umbrella Multi-Donor Trust Fund Annual Report 2022 In Ghana, the Fund supported the Ghana Jobs and Skills project that aims to support skills development and job creation in the country. The grant is financing research and development (R&D) to augment the monitoring systems for Ghana Skills Development Fund (GSDF) to better measure jobs outcomes of the fund. Through the support of the MDTF grant, and in collaboration with the Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET), the M&E system was successfully designed and upgraded. This is expected to improve M&E systems across CTVET drawing synergies with other CTVET projects supported by other donors such as African Union, European Union, Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), and State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), among others. [NAT/INST] [M1] Source: Jobs Umbrella Multi-Donor Trust Fund Annual Report 2022 In Cote dIvoire, the Fund has financed a pilot to increase the earnings of the poorest smallholder rice farmers by connecting them to the value chain. The pilot is conducted in partnership with the Cote dIvoire Productive Social Safety Net (PSSN) project. The core of this approach is to simultaneously help farmers increase their productivity while also developing the market for their produce by supporting other actors in the chain, such as rice mills. The work have so far resulted in household data collection and a working paper. The findings reveal that intensification increases land and labor productivity, especially when agro-chemicals and mechanized land preparation are combined. Returns to labor double to triple, inducing specialization and greater market orientation as well as greater food security, while productively releasing agricultural labor for other activities. Labor in agriculture becomes more waged, the gender balance remains the same, while child labor input does not decrease. The findings call for greater attention to labor productivity and confirm that agricultural intensification can pay and enhance rural transformation. This was presented at the IFAD conference in June 2022. [NAT/INST] [MÅL/ACT] [M1] Source: Jobs Umbrella Multi-Donor Trust Fund Annual Report 2022 The Jobs MDTF prioritize contributing to the promotion of better employment outcomes for women through activities that address the wide range of labor market challenges that disproportionately affect female workers: In Albania, Jobs Group staff supported the first World Bank Development Policy Loan (DPL) solely focused on gender. The DPL supported Government of Albanias efforts to enhance the policy framework for gender equality in access to economic opportunities with a focus on (i) improving womens access to assets; (ii) leveling the playing field to enhance labor market opportunities for women; and (iii) strengthening institutional arrangements for gender-informed policy making. The technical and financial support from the Jobs MDTF supported the production of best practices on gender-focused institutional reforms and preparation of toolkits that will support replication to other countries. This included the development of a best practice policy note that draws lessons from the Albania DPL and programs of similar nature and provides practical advice for teams designing a gender focused operation in their sector. [NAT/INST] [MÅL/ACT] [M1], [M2] Source: Jobs Umbrella Multi-Donor Trust Fund Annual Report 2021 The Jobs MDTF supported the Women, Business, and Law team in designing of better childcare policies through improved regulations globally. The support enabled the team to enhance the design of indicators and data collection efforts to better understand how countries can use their legal systems to make good quality childcare available and affordable. The analysis led to the development of 8th Women, Business, and Law report that provides a conceptual framework for measuring legal barriers to childcare and policy reform to tackle the childcare challenge. During 2022, the Women, Business and the Law team of the World Bank has produced six regional briefs that assess the regulatory frameworks around availability, affordability, and quality of childcare services across six regions of the world, namely East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. These regional briefs are based on the new childcare data for 95 economies published as a part of the 2022 annual study. A new cycle of WBL childcare data collection has been launched in July 2022 to expand the data set from 95 to 150 economies, and new implementation indicators around the supportive frameworks for the provision of affordable and quality childcare were added to the survey. [M1], [M2] Source: Jobs Umbrella Multi-Donor Trust Fund Annual Report 2021 and Jobs Umbrella Multi-Donor Trust Fund Annual Report 2022 The Jobs MDTF supported the IFCs Womens Employment Program (WEP) with the objective of supporting the generation of qualitative and quantitative evidence around the impacts of promoting gender-sensitive policies at the workplace among private sector firms in emerging markets. The grant is supporting the development of data collection and analytical methods to add to the toolkit of the WEPs M&E, allowing for earlier and better data collection on future engagements. In 2022, a case study on an IFC client company in Vietnam was finalized, and it identified the broader business impacts of gender-smart solutions on employees and organizational performance beyond monetary gains. The study modeled the future returns on investment of new and enhanced gender-smart solutions implemented and found that the highest impact is brought about by pay equity, onsite child and elderly care, and flexible working arrangements. The tool will help existing clients to quantify the impacts of gender-smart solutions on business performance based on results achieved and prospective clients to understand the potential business case for implementing gender-smart solutions. [M1], [M2] Source: Jobs Umbrella Multi-Donor Trust Fund Annual Report 2022 Global knowledge production JobsWatch, which is a joint initiative conducted by the World Bank and the ILO, synthesized and generated new evidence on impact of the COVID-19 crisis on workers, households and firms and provided important information for responding to future crisis. The initiative collected data from over 50 countries and tracked policy response from over 224 countries to understand the support provided by governments to respond to the crisis. It developed new and innovative ways to gather and analyze data remotely and guide policy response. [M1] Source: Jobs Umbrella Multi-Donor Trust Fund Annual Report 2021 Jobs After Covid, was a call for proposals under the Jobs Umbrella MDTF which aimed to identify and accelerate pioneering diagnosis of and solutions to jobs challenges in a post pandemic context. The call focused on the medium-term jobs agenda for low- and middle-income countries and covered the emergence of a new normal that may imply permanent shifts in the jobs agenda, with particular consequences in emerging countries. Examples of interventions funded under this are: - The impact of the green transition on employment and livelihoods of poor and vulnerable households: to understand how the impacts of green transitions are divided among workers and recommend policies to improve inclusiveness (Global) - Inclusive Jobs and Economic Transformation for the Bottom 80% in Africa: operationalize the Jobs and Economic Transformation (JET) agenda in the Africa region, in order to include the poor and vulnerable in African countries post-COVID sustainable recovery strategies. (Regional SSA) - Online Gig Economy Jobs for Youth in a post-COVID era: a global study of recent developments in online gig work to provide policy and operational insights for promoting inclusive access to digital jobs (Global) [GLOB/NORM] [NAT/INST] [MÅL/ACT] [M1] Source: Jobs Umbrella Multi-Donor Trust Fund Annual Report 2021 The initiative Solution for Youth Employment (S4YE) is supported by the Fund and has continued to lead the global knowledge agenda on youth employment. In 2022, S4YE launched the new knowledge work on Health Sector and Jobs for youth and e-mentoring solutions while also continuing to do follow-on work on the disabilities, rural youth employment, and digital tools for youth employment. Examples of knowledge products produced are: - E-Mentoring Platforms: Leveraging Technology to Deliver Mentoring Solutions for Youth - What Works: Business Incubators for Rural Youth - Designing Employment Services for Persons with Disabilities: Experience from Haiti - Using Digital Tools for Monitoring and Evaluation of Youth Employment Programs S4YE has also initiated a network of government agencies from client countries working on youth employment for peer learning. [GLOB/NORM] [MÅL/ACT] [M1] Source: Jobs Umbrella Multi-Donor Trust Fund Annual Report 2022 S4YE also led the signing of a new MOU by World Bank Vice President with Microsoft Philanthropies make available Microsofts free digital training and skills curricula to WBG operations. The corresponding curricula cover a wide range of skills, including basic digital literacy, advanced digital skills, entrepreneurship capacity development, soft skills, etc. Any World Bank operation involving digital skills/capacity-building can use these resources without any cost to client governments. The engagement has moved to an implementation phase in Ethiopia, Lebanon, and Ghana. [M1] Source: Jobs Umbrella Multi-Donor Trust Fund Annual Report 202 The Jobs Group has also initiated the Rome Jobs and Labour Mobility Centre, with the objective to develop, evaluate and distribute evidence-based solutions to foster productive labour mobility within and across sectors and boarder. The centre has initiated Rome Dialogues on Jobs and Migration as well as an innovation challenge on jobs and migration with the purpose to generate evidence around potentially scalable solutions which improve cross-border labor mobility and labor market integration and maximize the economic and job benefits from safe, orderly, and regular migration. [GLOB/NORM] [MÅL/ACT] [M1] Source: Jobs Umbrella Multi-Donor Trust Fund Annual Report 202
The World Bank Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) for Jobs was established in 2014 as one of the first Umbrella Trust Funds within the World Bank Group, and the second phase is proposed for 2020204. The second phase of the MDFT Jobs maintains the original objectives of the Fund: a) To support the design and implementation of comprehensive, integrated and highimpact jobs strategies for WBG client countries b) To advance global knowledge on the most effective policies and activities for sustainable jobs, especially for the most vulnerable groups This is achieved through work through the following 3 windows: Window 1 Supporting Jobs Lending at Scale: This window provides technical expertise resources to task teams in other GPs and IFC to help scale up the WBGs jobs lending portfolio across sectors and regions, in order to improve technical quality of operations for improved targeting jobs outcomes and scale up operational approaches especially in lowincome and fragile settings. Window 2 Measurement Agenda: This window advances the technical capacity for measurement of jobs outcome, and upgrades country level data and diagnostics on jobs outcomes, to enable evidence based jobs initiativs and provide policymakers with improved information on expected impact of interventions. Window 3 Influence through External Partnerships and Innovation: Under this window, the Jobs Group support a strong engagement and dissemination and outreach between the World Bank Jobs Group and other key stakeholders, to identify and accelerate cutting edge solutions to emerging jobs challenges. The goal for the second phase is to ramp up the emphasis specifically on country level operationalisation, as well as the measurement of outcomes, and the work with governments, private sector actors and development partners to reinforce the agenda of private sector led jobs growth. The overall theory of change is that the MDTF provides direct technical support to country level operations with jobcentric designs to enhance jobs outcomes in programmes, provide measurement methodologies, and engage with private and public partners for effective solutions, to increase capacity for implementation of effective programmes and policies in countries and across sectors supported by evidence and data, to ultimately contribute to the accelerated creation of better jobs through scaled up public sector reforms and private sector investments.
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