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Jobs Umbrella Multi-Donor Trust Fund

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We advance the World Bank’s jobs agenda through three workstreams. Financing leverages resources to support country strategies, operations, and pilots that prioritize employment outcomes. Data and measurement strengthens the tools and evidence needed to track how policies and projects affect jobs. Partnerships connect governments, donors, the private sector, and youth to co-create solutions and share knowledge.

Together, these streams turn resources into strategies, evidence, and collaborations that help countries create more and better jobs.

We support country strategies, operations, and pilots that prioritize jobs.

We use grants to strengthen World Bank operations by embedding a jobs lens and maximizing scale. Modest resources from the Jobs MDTF are leveraged to inform and shape World Bank lending and policy operations, resulting in billions of dollars in financing toward more and better jobs.

  1. Deep-dive diagnostics. We support Country Growth and Jobs Report with in-depth analyses that identify the binding constraints to employment and growth. Topics can include productivity, competition, trade, labor markets, agriculture, informality, state-owned enterprises, or macroeconomic stability. These diagnostics generate actionable recommendations that feed into national growth and jobs strategies and guide the Bank’s portfolio. Findings from the Country Growth and Jobs Reports feed directly into the World Bank’s Country Partnership Frameworks, guiding country engagement and ensuring that lending operations across the portfolio are aligned and mobilized to create more and better jobs at scale.
  2. Support to high-impact operations. We provide grants to strengthen lending operations with the greatest jobs’ potential, or to help them implement reforms and interventions laid out in the CGJR upstream. This builds on the Supporting Effective Jobs Lending at Scale (SEJLS) pilot program, which demonstrated how project-level support can sharpen design, improve measurement, and link operations more directly to jobs outcomes.
  3. Country pilots. We test and scale solutions through focused country initiatives. In Mexico, we piloted integrated approaches to reduce informality and expand labor market inclusion. In South Africa, we supported innovative service delivery models to tackle high youth unemployment. In Côte d’Ivoire, we worked with government and partners to integrate smallholder rice farmers into formal value chains, boosting productivity and earnings. These pilots generate lessons that inform broader jobs strategies and can be replicated across regions.

With limited grant resources, the Jobs MDTF influences large-scale financing—turning small investments into outsized impact for jobs.

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