Documents et rapports

Digital Cash Transfers - Lessons from Cameroon (anglais)

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the government of Cameroon launched an emergency cash transfers program in urban areas. It aimed to mitigate the adverse economic impacts by providing temporary income...

Concept Environmental and Social Review Summary (ESRS) - Productive Safety Net Project - P180122 (anglais)

Highlights from Africa SPJ - Empowering Women and Girls Through Social Protection (anglais)

This paper highlights women’s and girls’ empowerment (WGE) interventions from social protection and jobs (SPJ) lending operations for easier and more effective project design and implementation. Based...

Concept Project Information Document (PID) - Gabon Social Safety Net Project - P180122 (anglais)

Measurement Guide - Four Indicators for Assessing Women's and Girl's Power (anglais)

This measurement guide offers practical advice on how to assess changes in women’s and girls’ empowerment (WGE). The guide aims to provide task teams with a set of WGE indicators and with the guidance...

A Tale of Two Countries : Labor Market Profiles of Youth in Urban and Rural Cameroon (anglais)

Cameroon’s high employment levels mask widespread precariousness and rural-urban inequality. Labor market vulnerability-either detachment or weak attachment-is particularly acute among youth (ages 15 to...

Safety First : How to Leverage Social Safety Nets to Prevent Gender Based Violence - Operational Guidance (anglais)

Gender-based violence (GBV) has substantial individual and collective costs that disproportionately affect poorer women and girls. One woman in three worldwide has experienced physical or sexual violence...

Safety First : How to Leverage Social Safety Nets to Prevent Gender Based Violence - Operational Guidance (portugais)

Gender-based violence (GBV) has substantial individual and collective costs that disproportionately affect poorer women and girls. One woman in three worldwide has experienced physical or sexual violence...

Supporting Women’s Livelihoods at Scale : RCT Evidence from a Nationwide Graduation Program (anglais)

The success of graduation model programs at bringing low-income women out of poverty raises the question of how these programs can be usefully implemented at scale by developing countries that may have...

Cameroon - Juvenocracy : Youth-Shaped IGAA - Tale of Two Countries : Labor Market Profiles of Youth in Urban and Rural Cameroon (anglais)

Low productivity - rather than absolute employment levels - is the main labor market challenge in Cameroon, where vulnerable employment in the form of subsistence farming or self-employment in the informal...

Cash in the City : Emerging Lessons from Implementing Cash Transfers in Urban Africa (anglais)

Poverty and crises are rapidly “urbanizing”. Yet experience with operationalizing cash transfers in urban areas is limited. This paper captures early lessons from a new generation of urban cash transfer...

Safety First : How to Leverage Social Safety Nets to Prevent Gender Based Violence (anglais)

Gender-based violence (GBV) has substantial individual and collective costs that disproportionately affect poorer women and girls and can constrain the impact of social programs. Globally, GBV is a drain...

In It to Win It ? Self-Esteem and Income-Earning among Couples (anglais)

This paper investigates whether the relative self-esteem level of spouses can lead to within- household competition for inputs and affect economic gender inequality in the home. Using data on smallholder...

The Future of G2P Payments : Expanding Customer Choice in Zambia (anglais)

The Zambian Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS) is taking a novel approach to a new government-to-person (G2P) payment system launched two years ago. Participants in its support...

Female migration in Lesotho : determinants and opportunities (anglais)

Migration, internal and external, continues to be a dominant livelihood strategy for households in Lesotho, with almost half (43 percent) of households reporting at least one member living away. The past...

Providing out-of-school adolescent girls with skills in Malawi : a review of the global evidence (anglais)

Skills development offers a range of benefits to out-of-school adolescent girls and alleviates a key obstacle to youth employment in developing countries. But do increased skills lead to delays in early...

The adolescent girls initiative in Rwanda : final evaluation report (anglais)

Rwanda has made a remarkable transition from reconstruction to development over the past twenty years. Despite these developments, Rwanda remains one of the poorest countries in the world. An estimated...