Ghana---Social Opportunities Project

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The objectives of the Social Opportunities Project for Ghana are to improve targeting in social protection spending, increase access to conditional cash transfers nationwide, increase access to employment and cash-earning opportunities for the rural poor during the agricultural off-season, and improve economic and social infrastructure in target districts. There are five components to the project, the first component being rationalize national social protection policy. This component will provide support to the government to help redirect its social protection expenditures to the most effective areas and reduce those in less effective activities. The second component is the labor intensive public works. The objective of this component is to provide targeted rural poor households with access to employment and income-earning opportunities. The third component is the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty Program (LEAP). The objective of this component is to support the full rollout of the pilot phase of the LEAP program by strengthening its management and administration, providing technical assistance to improve targeting, providing cash transfers to beneficiaries under LEAP, and providing incentives to ensure that Government of Ghana (GoG) annual budget allocations are sufficient. The fourth component is the capacity building. The objective of this component is to create capacity at the national and local levels to implement the National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS) in selected project districts, with the view of enabling a gradual scaling-up and targeting at the national level. This component will therefore implicitly strengthen GoG decentralization program. Several distinct sets of capacity-building activities will be supported. Finally, the fifth component is the project management and coordination.

FY17 - Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry,FY17 - Social Protection

World Bank Group

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Road, Water Supply and Storage, Waste Processing and Treatment, Hydro, Commercial, Raw Materials, Government