Building Skills for Human Capital Development in South Sudan

active

Prospective

The proposed Project would support South Sudan to establish the minimum skills base needed to enable the country to accelerate human capital formation. The Project proposes to do this by addressing skills constraints in key sectors that contribute to human capital—education and agriculture. In both these sectors, lack of critical skills is a binding constraint for improving sector performance and will need to be addressed to enable complementary investments to produce returns. The Project would tackle these constraints by (i) enhancing teachers’ skills to strengthen education delivery through in-service and pre-service professional development; (ii) fostering the development of digital skills in youth through the piloting of a blended education model for a digital agriculture program and providing internet connectivity to ten public universities/polytechnic institutes; and (iii) strengthening local capacity to manage the education system by providing technical assistance and capacity building support to the Ministry of General Education and Instruction and Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, strengthening information management systems, and establishing Project Implementation Units to manage Project activities. The Project will also finance activities to increase schooling opportunities in refugee hosting areas of South Sudan and promote inclusion of refugee children in these schools.

FY17 - Education,FY17 - Industry, Trade and Services

World Bank Group

Project

Broadband, Telecommunications, Commercial, Raw Materials, Government, Education