Human Capital Project

The Human Capital Ministerial Conclave is attended by Ministers of Finance, Planning, and Budget from over 80 HCP countries, WBG Leadership, and prominent global voices from civil society and the private sector.

This series of webinars promotes direct learning and exchange among the Focal Points, enabling them to share experience and accelerate human capital outcomes. The live sessions are restricted to participation by the focal points, but afterward, the recordings are shared as a public good.

How are countries investing in people? What tools are available to support human capital development? Access a curated list of reports and briefs here.

Building Human Capital: Lessons from Country Experiences is a series of case studies commissioned by the Human Capital Project team to examine the development trajectories of selected countries that have prioritized investments in key human capital outcomes.

Next-Generation Human Capital Investments for Inclusive Jobs.

The aim of this policy note is to examine the relative efficiency and equity of public expenditures and policies for human capital and labor markets over the past decade in Türkiye in preparing for a post-COVID, inclusive, green transition. 

From March 1, 2020, through May 1, 2022, the number of children affected by COVID-19-associated orphanhood and caregiver deaths continued to grow. This new cumulative 26-month document is our third report. We now summarize cumulative trends in orphanhood and caregiver deaths in this brief third report, ‘Children: The Hidden Pandemic – September 2022, Orphanhood and Caregiver Loss Based on Excess COVID-19 Death Estimates.

Launched in April 2019, the African Human Capital Plan (HCP) focuses on prioritizing investments in critical social sectors to improve Africa's human capital outcomes and economic growth. As we take on COVID-19, climate change, and other compounding crises that threaten to erode the human capital of an entire generation, the African HCP provides a strong framework to address emergency response and inclusive recovery efforts. 

On April 26th, 2022, Ministers of finance and planning, private sector leaders, and heads of foundations and agencies from over 60 countries joined the 2022 Spring Meetings Human Capital Ministerial Conclave to discuss policy priorities and solutions to overcome learning losses and restore jobs and skills.

This annual report details the activities of the Human Capital Umbrella Program and its anchor trust fund, the Advancing Human Capital Outcomes Globally Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF), with operational and financial reporting as of December 2021.

This report highlights the challenges and successes countries have experienced over the past year. It acknowledges that countries have struggled to stem their losses with the impact of the Corona virus on lives and livelihoods. Global losses are estimated to be a decade worth of gains in human capital outcomes. Countries continue to invest optimally in their people, prevent hard-won human capital gains from being eroded further, and build back better to ensure green, resilient and inclusive development.

This brief summarizes the proceedings of the Human capital ministerial conclave event 2021. Ministers of finance and planning, together with high-level government Officials from the eighty-two HCP member countries along with private sector groups and development partners. The conclave covered three main themes: Scalability of service delivery; Efficiency of spending on human capital; and Equity which puts people at the center of development.

This case study looks at the story of Ireland’s remarkable economic and social transformations since the 1960s, with a focus on the contribution made by education to human capital development. The people of Ireland are armed with the relevant knowledge, entrepreneurial agility, and analytical skills to support economic and social prosperity.