Program Objectives
Main Objectives
Wage employment
Food security
Financial inclusion
Self-employment
Market access
Social services
Income diversification
Women's empowerment
Social cohesion
Productivity
Social inclusion
Climate resilience
Program Description
The project provides a combination of financial support and business skills training to existing or aspiring business owners from urban Monrovia and the peri-urban Margibi county.
Program Components
Transfer
Coaching
Business capital
Financial services facilitation
Wage employment facilitation
Market links
Skills training
Climate resilience support
Average program duration for participants
Under one year
Between one and three years
More than three years
Do participants access components in a specific sequence?
Digitization
COMPONENTS DELIVERED DIGITALLY
Transfer
Coaching
Business capital
Financial services facilitation
Market links
Skills training
Climate resilience support
Wage employment
PARTICIPANT PROFILE
TARGETED POVERTY GROUPS
Poor
PRIORITY VULNERABLE GROUPS
Women
Youth
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
PARTICIPANT IDENTIFICATION METHODS
Community-based targeting
Geographic targeting
Categorical targeting
Proxy Means Test
Other targeting method
Basic Program Information
Country
Liberia
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa
Lead implementing agency
Liberia Agency for Community Empowerment (LACE)
Type lead implementing agency
National govt
Start date
End date
P-code (WB programs)
P174417
Global Practice (World Bank)
Social Protection & Jobs
Country Information
Lending category (WB only)
IDA
FCV country (WB FY24 list)
No
Total Population (million)
5.19
Poverty headcount (NPL) (%)
50.90%
Poverty headcount ($2.15/day (2017 PPP)) (%)
27.60%
Poverty headcount (MPI) (%)
52.32%
No. Economic inclusion programs in the country
5
No. beneficiaries (direct & indirect) of economic inclusion programs in the country
224,500
PLANNED RESEARCH AND EVALUATION
EVALUATION/RESEARCH TYPES
Needs assessment
Process evaluation
Impact evaluation
IMPACT EVALUATION TOPICS
Overall impact
Cost effectivness
Spillovers and general equilibrium effects
Scalable delivery modalities
Dynamics over time
Optimal combination of components
Impact for different population groups
Resilience and shocks responsiveness
Name research partners
Golvine De Rocheambau (Sciences Po), principal investigator; Anubhav Agarwal (Paris School of Economics).
Date when impact evaluation results available
First results will be available in January 2024. Additional results on the dynamics over time will be available subject to adequate financing for a follow-up survey. The design was presented at the PEI-DIME collaborative in October 2022.
Data submitted as of , through
PEI’s Landscaping Survey.
For more information on the survey
click here.
Program Coverage
Direct participants
1,280
Direct & indirect beneficiaries
6,656
Percentage female participants
76-99% of participants
Share of country population (%)
: 0.13
Share of poor (national poverty line) (%)
: 0.25
Area/s
: Urban/Peri-urban only
Geographic coverage
: One state/region
Institutional Arrangements
| Organizations | Involved In Implementation | Providing Financing |
|---|---|---|
| National/central government | ||
| Regional/district government | ||
| Local/municipal government | ||
| Non-governmental organization | ||
| Community | ||
| Financial Service Provider | ||
| World Bank | ||
| Multilateral (not WB) | ||
| Bilateral organization | ||
| Private sector organization |
Community Engagement
Components Delivered Through Community
- Transfer
- Business capital
- Wage employment facilitation
- Skills training
- Coaching
- Financial services facilitation
- Market links
- Climate resilience support
Community Structures Leveraged for Program delivery
- Informal community groups
- Formal community groups
- Local governance groups
- Community individuals
- Other community structures
| DNA: Does Not Apply; FY: Fiscal Year; FCV: Fragility, Conflict, and Violence; MPI: Multidimensional Poverty Index; NPL: National Poverty Line; N/A: Not available; WB: World Bank |