Albania Gender Equality in Access to Economic Opportunities DPF

  • F Funding Initiative/Portfolio

I Inactive

Key Information

Despite improvements in recent years, systemic constraints in Albania’s legal and regulatory framework, combined with implementation gaps, continue to inhibit women’s access to economic opportunities. For instance, married women are under-registered as joint owners of property, which curtails their rights of ownership and use. Likewise, Albania’s female labor force participation rate remains 16 percentage points lower than the male rate, and only 30 percent of firms have female owners or administrators. The labor market gender gap is widest among women of prime childbearing age, due in part to a lack of early childhood education and care facilities. Gender gaps in labor-force participation, employment, and wages are especially pronounced among ethnic minorities. Moreover, institutional capacity constraints undermine the ability of the government to conduct and monitor gender-informed policies across sectors. The proposed Development Policy Financing (the operation) supports policies to help women access greater opportunities and enable the government to better allocate resources to these policies. Building on Albania’s progress in strengthening legislation to support gender equality in recent years, policies supported by this operation aim at bringing the country’s legal framework closer to international standards and ensure its effective implementation.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Albania

Location(s)

Europe & Central Asia

Albania

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2014 - 2021

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Finance and Economy

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion

Other skills

  • Financial literacy
  • Rights/empowerment education

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Gender equality

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

6 - 19

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Other

  • Other activities to end child marriage (not captured above)

Policy/legal environment

  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
  • Raising awareness about existing laws/policies

Reducing economic barriers

  • Income-generating activities

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased years of schooling

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage