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Access to Quality Jobs for Women

Greater involvement of women in the labor force also has a significant social impact—paid employment is known to increase women’s agency and empowerment. The IFC partners with private sector companies to demonstrate the business case for investing in women and also supports increased investments in women-operated and women-owned small and medium enterprises.

The World Bank Group promotes increased access to financial and non-financial services for women and women- owned MSMEs, and conduct analytical work focusing on effective implementation of labor laws and policies to provide safe working spaces for women.

$ 0.06 billion committed (IBRD/IDA)

$ 0.00 billion disbursed

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  • Tejaswini: Socioeconomic Empowerment of Adolescent Girls & Young Women

    The development objective of Tejaswini, for Socioeconomic Empowerment of Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) Project in India is to improve completion of market-driven skills training and secondary education for adolescent girls and young women in select districts of Jharkhand. This projects consists of three components: 1) The firs component, Expanding Social, Educational, and Economic Opportunities, aims to support adolescent girls and young women of fifteen districts in Jharkhand to achieve greater social, educational, and economic empowerment. It has two sub components as follows: (i) Community-level Socioeconomic Empowerment of Adolescent Girls and Young Women; and (ii) Institution-level Interventions for Completion of Vocational Skills Training and Education. 2) The second component, Intensive Service Delivery, will pilot and evaluate more intensive community-level service delivery models in two districts focused on increasing adolescent girls and young women’s access to educational interventions, training, and employment opportunities. It has two subcomponents as follows: (i) Enhanced Last Mile Service Delivery; and (ii) Enhanced Outreach to Hard-to-reach Populations. 3) The third component, State Capacity Building and Implementation Support, aims to support strengthening of institutional capacity and outreach of the Department of Women and Child Development and Social Security (DWCDSS) and the Jharkhand Women Development Society (JWDS) to enable effective and efficient delivery of services for AGYW in the state. It has two sub components as folows: (i) Strengthening Systems and Convergence; and (ii) Project Implementation Support.

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