Emergency Income Support and Training Project

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The objective of the Emergency Income Support and Training Project for Sint Maarten is to provide temporary income support, improve the employability of affected beneficiaries in targeted sectors, and strengthen the social protection system’s capacity for shock-response and protection of the poor. Project has 3 components. (1) Supporting the implementation of the Emergency Income Support and Training Program (“EISTP”) component will to provide temporary income support to under-employed and unemployed persons in exchange for their participation in short-term skills training in selected occupational areas provided under EISTP. (2) Strengthening institutional capacity to enhance the social protection system component will to improve the social protection system’s capacity to better coordinate social programs, and respond to disasters and other shocks by developing an integrated information system to support needs assessments, registration, identification and selection of the people in most need and the vulnerable. As such, the Component will focus on developing a Social Registry and improving Government’s capacity to administer it. The Social Registry will support the identification and registration of socio-economic needs of individuals and households (i.e., health, education, housing, etc.) to improve efficiency of the social protection system by improving targeting of benefits, efficiency in the allocation of resources, and coordination and program design in the social projection system. It will also be a tool to generate quick responses in post-disaster situations (by having a ready list of those least likely to be able to cope with a shock). (3) Project management component will support overall management and communication for all Project activities.