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FY2019 ANNUAL REPORT

JAPAN/WORLD BANK GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

TABLE OF CONTENTS

.....1 Outreach and Selection of the 2019 Cohort of JJ/WBGSP Scholars.2

Administration of the Scholarship Program..0

Annex 1: JJWBGSP Application and Selection Processes.11

Annex 2: JJWBGSP Preferred Programs, 2019....27

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FY2019 ANNUAL REPORT

JAPAN/WORLD BANK GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

Partnership with the World Bank

Japan's commitment to invest in human resources in developing countries is rooted in its own experiences after World War II. The country's startling postwar economic growth and its fundamental transformation from World Bank recipient to major World Bank donor were grounded in the rapid growth of its broad human resource base. This distinct development pathway has led Japan in its desire to support the poorest countries in their endeavors to enhance the expertise

and skill levels of aspiring practitioners and leaders and to contribute to policy reform for economic

growth and social development. Japan has partnered with the World Bank in support of this development objective over the years, including through two programs administered under the Japan-funded and World Bank administered Policy and Human Resources Development Fund (PHRD): (i) the Japan Indonesia Presidential Scholarship Program (JIPS), which closed in FY2017 and (ii) the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJ/WBGSP), which remains active. This annual report updates activities under JJWBGSP. Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJWBGSP) JJ/WBGSP, which started in 1987, targets mid-career professionals working in development fields. The program provides financing for professionals to study abroad for up to 24 months. To date, the program has awarded over 6500 scholarships across 160 countries. Approximately every three years, the World Bank administers a survey of alumni to track their professional JJ/WBGSP scholars with professors after receiving their diplomas from Harvard, 2019 2 achievements and development impact after they complete their JJ/WBGSP-funded studies. The JJ/WBGSP awards scholarships through three subprograms: (a) the Preferred Program, (b) the Partnership Program, and (c) the Japanese Nationals Program. Preferred Program: Eligible developing country nationals who are admitted to one of these programs can apply for a JJWBGSP scholarships through an open call held once per year. The highest qualified scholarship applicants are selected, considering gender and geographic With the number of eligible scholarship applicants always significantly greater than the number of scholarship awards granted, degree program is not guaranteed to receive a JJWBGSP-awarded scholar. No new development topics or programs have been added to this list for many years.

Annex 1).

Partnership Program: Rather than participating in an open call for JJWBGSP scholarship applications, partner universities short-list JJWBGSP scholarship applicants from their pool of -lists twice the number of qualified applicants compared to the number of scholarships set aside for that partnership, each partner is guaranteed a fixed number of scholarships each year. There are 14 partnership master degree programs for which JJWBGSP scholarships are available for scholars who will begin their programs before July 2020. These programs are located in 13 universities, which include: five in Japanthe University of Tokyo, Yokohama National University, the University of Tsukuba, Keio University, and the Graduate Institute for Policy Studies; two in the United StatesHarvard University and Columbia University; and six universities in in Africa (the University of Yaoundé II in Cameroon, the University of

Cocody Makerere University in

Uganda, the University of Zambia, and the University of Kinshasa in the Democratic

Republic of Congo.

Japan Nationals Program: There is an allocation for 15 scholarships set aside every year to finance a master or PhD degree for Japanese nationals for up to 2 years, and there is no

restriction on their choice of university, as long as the graduate program focuses on a

development topic. Annex 2 provides details on the application and selection process of these three subcomponents.

II. Outreach and Selection of the 2019 Cohort of

JJ/WBGSP Scholars

Overview

Funding for new scholarships has declined in recent years, and up to now the preferred program took the full brunt from these budget cuts, dropping from 136 scholarships awarded in 2015 to 43 in 2018. So to move toward a more equitable distribution of scholarships given the funding 3 available, in 2019 the Scholarship Program reduced the number of scholarships that would be offered for partnership programs from the longstanding quota of 110 to 77, and allocated a maximum of 56 scholarships for preferred programs (Table 1). Table 1: Number of scholarships planned per Subprogram Pre-

2019 2019

Partners

Harvard 8 6

Columbia 12 10

TSUKUBA 15 8

YNU TAX 5 4

YNU

INFRA 10 8

TOKYO 8 7

GRIPS 5 4

KEIO 5 4

Ghana 7 5

ZAMBIA 7 5

KINSHASA 7 3

Makerere 7 3

Yaounde 7 5

Cocody 7 5

Partners

Subtotal 110 77

Japanese

National 15 15

Preferred

Program

56
TOTAL 148
In large part because of the lack of eligible shortlisted applicants from the African Universities, in 2019, JJWBGSP awarded only 62 scholarships for partnership programs compared to 77 scholarships planned. In contrast, with an abundance of qualified applications from the open call, all 56 of the allocated scholarships were awarded to scholars admitted to preferred programs. Unfortunately, the Japanese Nationals Program continued for a second year to struggle to attract qualified applicants, and as such, only 8 scholarships were awarded in

2019, comparted to the budget for 15 scholarships to Japan nationals. Figure 1 and Tables

2a and 2b provide more detailed time-series data.

4 Figure 1. JJWBGSP Preferred and Partnerships Awards, 1988-2019

Table 2a: Status of Awardees

AWARDED SCHOLARS STATUS

Cohort

Partner

Program

Japan

Nationals

Preferred

Program Total Accepted Deferred Declined Withdrawn Terminated Retired

2017 96 15 91 202 12 8 15 5 2 160

2018 89 13 43 145 75 4 10 2 0 54

2019 62 8 56 126 113 3 10 0 0 0

0 50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400

857910210996103107108127168

265

100108

254285

796899150

236205

142105120104136109914356

00

23264660486767

82
77
9365
8770
9461
80
63
104
74
83
81112
74
91
6097

9062Number of Scholars

Partnership

Programs

Preferred

Program

5 6 Japanese Nationals Program: Outreach and Selection

The Secretariat, DEC

out to the target audience through websites, social media and face-to-face events in Japan. As the case in past years, an internet search remains the dominant way eligible applicants learn about the scholarship. This year, 41 Japanese nationals applied, of which eight applicants were eligible. Among the

33 ineligible applicants, 27 lacked the required three years of development-related work

experience, two lacked admission to a university, two lacked a qualified recommendation letter, and three currently work for the Government of Japan. Note that applicants can be disqualified for more than one reason. Following on the footsteps of the last two cohorts in which the Scholarship Program received more women than men eligible applications, this year four of the eight eligible applicants are in the US, UK and Europe. With this low volume of eligible applications, JJWBGSP was in the unfortunate position this year of not meeting the target of 15 scholarships, and instead awarded scholarships to all 8 eligible applicants from Japan.

Partnership Program: Outreach and Selection

Outreach activities are led by partnership universities, and the JJWBGSP Secretariat posts announcements for their calls for scholars on the World Bank website. All partners except the Universities of Kinshasa, Makerere and Yaounde supplied enough eligible applications for the awarding of JJWBGSP scholarships for the 2019 cohort.

Preferred Program: Outreach and Selection

Outreach

The 2019 call for applications was

and external channels. Figure 2 provides the breakdown of how applicants in 2019 heard about the scholarship to preferred mas degree programs.

Selection

As illustrated in Figure 3, the selection of JJWBGSP scholarships to preferred programs is quite competitive, with thousands of applications submitted. Note that the decline in applications since 2017 is due to a procedural change, and not to a decline in demand for the JJWBGSP scholarships. Starting in 2018, JJWBGSP scholarship applicants must upload a letter of acceptance from a preferred program before submitting their scholarship application. Prior to 2018, this requirement was imposed later in the review process for the subset of high quality semi-finalists. 7 For the 2019 cohort, JJWBGSP processed a total of 3,235 applications, of which 2,278 applications were determined to be ineligible. The reasons of ineligibility are specified in Table 3 below, noting that each applicant can have multiple reasons for ineligibility. Figure 2. How Developing Country Eligible Applicants to Preferred Programs Heard about the Scholarship Program, 2019 (percent) Figure 3. Preferred Program Applicants and Awards, 2013-2019 36%
25%
13% 14% 5% 3% 4% 0% 0% 0%

Through the overseas university that I am

applying to for a masters degree

From an Internet search

From a previous call for applications

From a previous or current JJ/WBSGP Scholar

Through my employer

Social Media

Other

Through the World Bank office / World Bank

staff in my country

Through a World Bank office / World Bank staff

located outside my country Blog 0 450
900
1,350 1,800 2,250 2,700 3,150 3,600 4,050 4,500 4,950

13141516171819*

Number of Scholars

Applicants

Eligible

Scholars

8 Table 3: Reasons why Applications Identified as Ineligible, 2019

Reason for Ineligibility # Applications

% of all ineligible applications

No Letter of Admission or

Conditional Letter 838 33%

Does not fulfill employment

requirements 613 24% before May 2016 498 19%

Application Incomplete 363 14%

Wrong type of Recommendation 79 3%

No Bachelor Degree 145 6%

Citizenship of a developed

country 1 0%

Relatives of or WBG staff or ED

member 15 1%

Receive Japanese funds for

prior graduate degree 1 0% Among the remaining 957 eligible applications, the Steering Committee approved the highest qualified 56 finalists following the selection process described in Annex 1. Salient features of education is below the university level, including 20% of finalists whose father has no education (Figure 4). This year while only about 32% of the total of eligible applicants were females; their share amongst the finalist is 43%. There is a good geographic spread across finalists, with 28 countries represented in the pool of 56 finalists. Keeping with the aim of maintaining a geographical distribution of all JJWBGSP 4 shows that the origin of a large majority of eligible applicants (56%) is coming from Africa, while the larger part of the finalists is coming from South Asia (41%), followed by Africa (21%), East Asia and the Pacific (13%) Latin America and the Caribbean Region and the Middle East and North Africa regions (9% each), and

East and Central Asia (7%).

Almost three-fourths of the finalists are coming from a career in government, including the Central Bank (Figure 5). 9

Figure 4. Preferred Program Awards: ǯǡ

2019
Table 4. Preferred Program Awards: Distribution by Home Region, 2019 Preferred Program Awards: Distribution by Home Region, 2019

Africa East Asia

Europe and

Central Asia

Latin America

and Caribbean

Middle East

and North

Africa

South

Asia Total

Total 21% 13% 7% 9% 9% 41% 100%

Figure 5. Preferred Program Awards: Distribution by Employment Background, 2019
20% 11% 34%
30%
5%

No education

Primary education

Secondary level

University level

Unknown

68%
11% 7%

5%3%2%

2% 2%

Government (excluding Central

Bank)

Domestic Other Not-for-

profit/NGO

International/Regional Non-

profit Organization

Domestic tertiary/university

academic / research institution

Central Bank

Other Private Sector Business

Utility Provider (Electric Power,

Waste Mngt)

Other/Not provided

10 III. Administration of the Scholarship Program: Improved

Operational Efficiency and Quality Enhancements

A key mandate of the JJWBGSP Secretariat is to ensure that JJWBGSP offers to the World -effective pool -quality universities and in a wide range of prevalent and emerging development topics, with no specific regional or country orientation. Therefore, while operational efficient remains a core objective of the JJWBGSP Secretariat, the substantial efficiency gains achieved over the past 5-6 years has enabled the JJWBGSP Secretariat, under the guidance of the JJWBGSP Steering Committee, to initiate in 2019 the task of designing and implementing competitive processes to select a new set of partnership ith demonstrated capability to: (i) admit a highly qualified and diverse pool of mid- program(s) that equip these scholars with knowledge and skills that will enhance their capacity to contribute to efforts to alleviate poverty and broaden shared prosperity in their developing country. may not include those among the set of preferred and partner programs currently affiliated with JJWBGSP. The aim is to complete this task by end-December 2019. 11 Annex 1: JJWBGSP Application and Selection Processes The Programs application and selection process varies slightly across the three subprograms, but has not changed since 2017. a) Partnerships and Preferred Programs Applicants wishing to apply for scholarships through the Partner and Preferred Programs must meet the JJ/WBGSP eligibility criteria: -Be a national of a World Bank member country -Not hold dual citizenship with a developed country - Be in good health - Hold a bachelor (or equivalent) degree earned at least three years prior to the application deadline - Have three years or more of recent development-related experience after earning a bachelor (or equivalent) degree -Be accepted unconditionally to enroll in the upcoming academic year degree in at least one of the JJ/WBGSP Preferred or Partner Programs - Not be an executive director or alternate, a staff member under any type of appointment of the World Bank Group, or a close relative of the aforementioned by blood or adoption Preferred Program applicants submit their JJWBGSP scholarship application after being admitted unconditional to a preferred masters degree program. . For each partner program, the partner university first short-lists eligible candidates, who are then invited by the JJWBGSP Secretariat to apply for a scholarship. In 2014, the program launched an online application system to manage the intake and review of applications for the Preferred Program, and then expanded the system in 2016 to include the

Partnership Program.

The selection process is similar across both programs, with applications for scholarships processed through a multilevel screening process. First each application is screened to determine

if it meets the eligibility criteria. Each eligible application is reviewed and scored by two

independent expert reviewers, to identify those candidates who have the highest potential to influence development after completion of their graduate studies. In addition to the scoring, g background in identifying the finalists. The finalists from the Preferred Program are presented once per year to the JJ/WBGSP Steering Committee (composed of members of the World Bank Board of Directors and World Bank management) for final review and selection of the recipients. The finalists from the Partner program are cleared by the Steering Committee on a rolling basis throughout the year. b) Japan Nationals Program Japan Nationals must meet the following eligibility criteria: - Be a Japanese national - Be in good health application deadline 12 - Be a current graduate student or be accepted unconditionally to enroll in an upcoming academic year for a graduate degree in a development field Have at least 3 years of full-time paid development-related experience since earning a date of the Application Deadline - Not employed by the Government of Japan or its related agencies, including local governments and the Central Bank at the time of application - Not be an executive director or alternate, a staff member under any type of appointment of the World Bank Group, or a close relative of the aforementioned by blood or adoption, - Have not received any scholarship funds from the Government of Japan to help finance a graduate degree In 2017, an online application system was created and launched to manage the intake and review of applications for the Japan Nationals Program. The selection of finalists from Japan is conducted in two phases. First, two highly experienced reviewers assessed the applications for eligibility and merit. The program manager creates inputs. And presents the list of finalists to the Steering Committee for approval once per year. 13

STATISTICAL TABLES

Table A1 - Scholarship Awards: Distribution by Region and Gender, 1987-2019

Africa East Asia

Europe &

Central Asia

Latin America

& Caribbean

Middle East &

North Africa

South

Asia Part 1 Total

1987- 2015

Total 2,268 969 413 696 282 757 328

5,713 # of Men 1,486 486 216 394 185 542 166 3,475 # of Women 782 483 197 302 97 215 162 2,238quotesdbs_dbs26.pdfusesText_32

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