The World Bank has approved US$155 million funding to the Social Cash Transfer (SCT) programme, whose beneficiaries are now close to one million of vulnerable people.
The funding is in the face of increasing shocks and prices of fuel, food and fertiliser.
According to Zambia Daily Mail, World Bank vice-president for eastern and southern Africa, Victoria Kwakwa, who is currently in Zambia, said this yesterday when she visited Nampundwe Secondary School in Shibuyunji district, where Government is implementing the Girls’ Education, Women Empowerment and Livelihood (GEWEL) project funded by the bank.
The project, which started in 2016, is meant to increase access to livelihood support for women and access to secondary education for disadvantaged adolescent girls in extremely poor households in selected districts.