Iraq Emergency Social Stabilization and Resilience Project

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The development objective of the Emergency Social Stabilization Project for Iraq is to: (i) increase livelihood opportunities in liberated areas; (ii) increase access to psychosocial services in liberated areas; and (iii) strengthen the systems to expand the provision of social safety nets. This project has three components. First component, Cash for Work (CfW), Social Support, and Livelihood Opportunities is to increase access to short‐term employment in areas affected by the succession of crises by financing a CfW program, while providing livelihood opportunities for sustainable stabilization. The component includes three subcomponents as follows: i) Cash for Work; Sub‐component, ii) Psychosocial Support Services; and iii) Livelihood Opportunities; Second component, Resilient Social Safety Nets is to strengthen the capability of the current social safety net programs through promoting flexibility and scalability in the program design. It will not finance cash transfers to beneficiaries.This component will finance the development and implementation of the required targeting and operational systems: registration, database cross‐checking, enrollment, eligibility verification, case management and beneficiary data update, payment delivery, grievance redress, and performance monitoring. Third component, project management will support project management and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) to ensure that the project is successfully and efficiently implemented. This component will finance: (i) project management office (PMO) consultant salaries (central and governorate level, as needed); (ii) equipment and operating costs for PMO, including recurrent/operating costs; (iii) internal and external audits; (iv) monitoring and evaluation work, and contracting of third party implementation monitoring agencies for program delivery; and (v) a communications and awareness campaign.