Zambia: A Review of the World Bank Group Jobs Portfolio

Sudha Bala Krishnan and Teresa Peterburs

No 27708422, Jobs Group Papers, Notes, and Guides from The World Bank

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Technical and Vocational Education; European Development Finance Institutions; Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise; information and communication technology; project design and implementation; investments in energy infrastructure; trade and investment policy; water supply and sewerage; access to finance; Job Creation; human capital development; Energy and Mining; Transport and ICT; Agricultural Value Chain; public sector worker; national development planning; electricity generation capacity; job creation potential; access to job; business development service; demand for skill; transmission and distribution; european investment bank; skills and education; total labor force; rural access road; trade and competitiveness; movement of labor; senior operations; privileges and immunity; private sector job; secondary school enrolment; access to capital; supply chain linkage; jobs in agriculture; social accounting matrix; milk processing plant; international poverty line; labour market policy; smallholder livestock production; financial system development; unpaid family worker; types of income; small-scale dairy farmer; water user association; high population density; data collection system; poor youth; gender and youth; primarily due; creating job opportunity; expanding employment opportunity; real economic growth; purchasing power parity; types of capital; vulnerable population group; labor force participation; formal sector; spatial development; intermediate outcome; firm performance; worker productivity; investment amount; lagging region; results framework; young people; women's empowerment; irrigation infrastructure; portfolio review; product market; informal sector; sustainable livelihood; construction sector; regulatory support; inclusive jobs; skill development; market linkage; working age; smallholder farmer; Job Quality; rural area; wage work; vulnerable group; Labor Market; targeted intervention; global partnership; commercial partners; ongoing support; youth entrepreneurship; rural transportation infrastructure; young woman; social security; inclusive growth; power outage; budget amount; Project Count; girls education; non-governmental organization; present analysis; labor productivity; Social Protection; high concentration; mining infrastructure; Energy Projects; agricultural productivity; agricultural sector; support sme; livestock infrastructure; local production; girls' education; employment creation; electricity consumer; construction phase; agricultural good; agglomeration effect; working population; working condition; agricultural entrepreneur; slaughter facility; self-employed farmers; smallholder producer; geographical targeting; high poverty; causal chain; assessing progress; power shortage; displaced person; Girl's Education; transaction cost; support for entrepreneur; technology adoption; labor-intensive agricultural; building construction; agricultural input; headcount poverty; hydroelectric generation; project intervention; health post; working capital; soy bean; alternative livelihood; earnings growth; primary focus; Rural Poor; rural economy; multiplier effect; production quantities; aquaculture sector; green jobs; vulnerable communities; Business Regulation; commercial farm; enhancing access; unemployment rate; investment resource; poverty status; greening activities; water infrastructure; technical expert; corporate partner; national vision; project size; commercial farming; energy company; intermediate level; Animal Husbandry; school fee; Waste Management; young girl; poor farming; local development; investment volume; community group; population census; Financial Access; lending volume; livelihood opportunity; job crisis; economic empowerment; knowledge necessary; Poverty Analysis; earning opportunity; youth employment; increased income; productivity increase; commercial standard; disaggregated analysis; targeted population; production practice; productive capital; geographic location; financial market; national employment; agricultural finance; vulnerable woman; electricity service; increased access; extreme poverty; regional transmission; industrial consumer; informal worker; labor mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54
Date: 2017-01-01
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