By BUUMBA CHIMBULU
THE World Bank has provided $105 million for relief to about 300, 000 Zambian households affected by Covid-19 pandemic.
The funds would cover the poorest and most vulnerable households in the country, including women and girls as a relief from the Covid-19 pandemic said a statement issued in Lusaka by the World Bank.
The statement said the Girls Education and Women’s Empowerment (GEWEL) project provides cash transfers to all existing social cash transfer (SCT) programme beneficiary households and was gradually scaling-up coverage to a further 378, 000 beneficiary households over 18 months.
Ultimately, a total coverage of almost one million households would be achieved for the SCT programme, which represented 30 percent of the Zambian population or 50 percent of the poor.
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