Cash for Jobs Project

active

The development objective of the Cash for Jobs Project for Burundi is to strengthen management capacity, scale up safety net programs, and promote productive inclusion and access to jobs. The project comprises of six components. The first component, scaling up safety nets to the national territory objective is to scale up safety nets interventions initiated under the Merankabandi project at national level. It consists of following sub-components: (i) cash transfers for Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emergency response; (ii) scaling up cash transfers; and (iii) behavior change for investments in human capital. The second component, productive inclusion and access to jobs objective is to enhance income generating capacity of disadvantaged groups through increased productivity of household-based activities (subsistence agriculture, self-production); and strengthened participation in labor markets (access to jobs). It consists of following sub-components: (i) productive inclusion in rural settings; and (ii) access to jobs in urban settings. The third component, development of social protection delivery systems will contribute to the key building blocks of the safety nets delivery system. It consists of following sub-components: (i) scaling up basic delivery mechanisms of a basic safety nets system; and (ii) development of a national social registry. The fourth component, integration of refugee and host communities into national social protection systems will finance: (i) the cash transfers and productive inclusion grants for refugees and host community beneficiaries; (ii) operational costs related to the implementation of the cash transfers, human capital development and productive inclusion, and jobs activities; (iii) technical assistance to national office for the protection of refugees and stateless persons (ONPRA); and (iv) goods and services for the implementation of the proposed activities. The fifth component, project management and implementation objective is to provide support to the implementation of selected safety nets activities of Burundi’s national development plan and social protection strategy that can contribute to the project’s project development objective (PDO). It consists of following sub-components: (i) support to the new social protection strategy and coordination of the social protection sector; (ii) monitoring, evaluation and capacity building; and (iii) project implementation. The sixth component, contingency emergency response component (CERC) is included in the project in accordance with investment project financing (IPF) policy, paragraphs 12 and 13, for situations of urgent need of assistance and capacity constraints.