The Gambia Resilience, Inclusion, Skills, and Equity Project

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The development objective of the Resilience, Inclusion, Skills, and Equity Project for The Gambia is to increase: (i) foundational learning of early‐grade students; (ii) access to job‐relevant training for youth; and (iii) income‐generating opportunities, including for the poor and vulnerable, in The Gambia. The project comprises of five components. The first component, improve foundational learning outcomes will expand and build on the successes of the recent education sector support program (ESSP). It consists of following sub-components: (i) utilize structured pedagogy to improve foundational learning; (ii) scale up programs to expand access to formal education system; and (iii) scale up efforts to strengthen systems for basic education system. The second component, increase access to labor‐market‐relevant technical and vocational education and training (TVET) programs builds on the successes of recent activities. It consists of following sub-components: (i) design competitive skills, innovation, and entrepreneurship fund for rapid response and innovation in the TVET sector; (ii) establish TVET centers of excellence focused on priority economic sectors and trades; and (iii) system strengthening in priority areas. The third component, expand and enhance social safety nets will promote linkages to social services including health insurance and ensuring that beneficiaries send their children to school and participate in school feeding programming, to develop their human capital outcomes. It consists of following sub-components: (i) establish a productive economic inclusion program to skill poor populations; (ii) support Nafa cash transfers program; and (iii) strengthen social protection sector coordination and scale‐up of social protection tools to improve service delivery and response to shocks. The fourth component, support project management and capacity building consist of following sub-components: (i) project management, communications, and capacity building; and (ii) interoperability of data systems. The fifth component, contingent emergency response component (CERC) will only be activated and funded in accordance with investment project financing (IPF) World Bank Policy for situations of urgent need of assistance.