Niger Building Institutions and Human Capital DPO

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The development objectives of the Building Institutions and Human Capital Development Policy Financing in Niger are to: (1) strengthen economic governance; and (2) develop human capital and reduce gender gaps. The operation is structured around two pillars. The first pillar strengthens economic governance through the following measures: (i) strengthening the oversight and management of state-owned enterprises; (ii) improving public investment efficiency and effectiveness through the development of the Public Investment Management framework; and (iii) establishing the regulatory framework to sustainably manage the water and sanitation sector. The second pillar builds human capital and reduces gender gaps through the following measures: (i) encouraging teachers to work in remote/rural/difficult areas by establishing criteria for deployment, assignment and transfer of teachers that include incentive mechanisms for teacher deployment in at-risk or conflict-affected areas; (ii) Increasing the quality of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) by setting up the rules for the collection and the use from TVET institutions of their own financial resources and the amount and conditions under which apprentices will receive an allowance during the apprenticeship contract; and (iii) expanding access to comprehensive reproductive health education and information classes, for adolescent girls and boys through the creation in secondary schools of comprehensive reproductive health education classes. Building human capital remains the main challenge for a country where the productivity of the next generation will only be 30 percent as productive as if they had access to full quality education and health (Human Capital Index 2020).

World Bank Group

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Water Supply and Storage, Waste Processing and Treatment, Commercial, Government, Education