Girls Empowerment and Learning for All Project

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(Approved as part of Approval package on 29 Apr 2021)The Project’s conceptual framework seeks to empower and educate Angolan youth (especially girls). Component 1 aims to empower Angolan adolescents, with a particular focus on girls, by equipping them with skills, promoting greater take-up of health services (e.g. family planning, nutrition, sexual & reproductive health), and connecting those outside the school system to second chance education opportunities. As part of the COVID-19 response, the component also seeks to minimize disruptions to girls’ education through providing scholarships to keep girls (and boys) in school. Component 2 works to better educate children and adolescents already in the system, by improving teaching and measuring learning, including through distance learning programs where relevant. The component would also strengthen the resilience of local communities to the economic effects of COVID-19 through performance-based grants aimed at expanding school infrastructure. It also seeks to keep more girls in school by building classrooms, refurbishing bathrooms, and improving the school climate of existing schools. Assuring the transition to lower secondary education for girls and offering them a better chance at skills acquisition through better learning would result in future cohorts of labor market entrants that are more productive, and broadly contributing to growth. More importantly, they would be generating better incomes for themselves and their families, starting to have children later, and better able to invest in the health and education of their children, hence sparking a virtuous cycle at the household and national level.