Learn. Work. Thrive: Adolescent Girls Initiative Pilots Help Young Women Transition to Productive Employment
The AGI provided training to more than 16K young women in 8 countries. The AGI produced new knowledge in two main areas: program impacts to guide policy decisions and operational lessons and innovative strategies to improve project performance and achieve results.
Date: May 9, 2016Type: ResultsLanguage: English
Gender Equality at Work: A Global Priority
Gender equality in the world of work is at the forefront of the Bank’s efforts to address inequality as a whole.
Date: April 14, 2014Type: ResultsLanguage: English
Can Skills Training Programs Increase Employment for Young Women? The Case of Liberia
Youth unemployment is one of the main obstacles to development in Liberia. There are few opportunities to enter into wage employment; most of Liberia’s youth earn income on a day-to-day basis by trading on local markets or as day laborers in precarious conditions.
Date: April 14, 2014Type: ResultsLanguage: English
Learn. Work. Thrive.
The Adolescent Girls Initiative is being piloted in eight low-income countries (Afghanistan, Haiti, Jordan, Lao PDR, Liberia, Nepal, Rwanda, and South Sudan) and is currently reaching some 17,000 girls.
Date: April 11, 2014Type: ResultsLanguage: English
IDA and Gender: Progress, Results, and Next Steps
IDA has traditionally supported countries to address gender issues that hinder development and poverty reduction, guided by the 2001 World Bank Strategy.
Date: March 8, 2013Type: ResultsLanguage: English
Preparing Young Women for Entrepreneurship and Jobs in Liberia
In this first episode of a 2-part podcast on the economic empowerment of young women, broadcaster Georges Collinet discusses entrepreneurship, technical training and soft skills training for young women in Liberia.
Date: July 3, 2014Type: VideoLanguage: English
Educating a Nation: Economic Empowerment of Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Liberia
Through the Ministry of Gender & Development’s Economic Empowerment of Adolescent Girls & Young Women project, 3,500 young women have been trained in business development, employment and life skills so they can get jobs or start their own businesses.
Date: June 30, 2014Type: VideoLanguage: English
Liberia: Training Helps Young Women Find Employment
Liberia: Training Helps Young Women Find Employment
Date: August 10, 2011Type: VideoLanguage: English