NATIONAL UNIFIED REGISTRY AND OUTREACH WORKER PROGRAM

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The project development objective of the National Unified Registry and Outreach Program for Targeting Social Assistance Project for Jordan is to improve the targeting of social safety net programs and develop an efficient outreach mechanism. The project consists of two components: 1) The first component, building and using the National Unified Registry (NUR) for targeting safety nets, has two sub-components as follows: (a) building a database of private and informal sector workers at Income and Sales Tax Department (ISTD), will be one of the main activities under the unified registry project to be implemented by ISTD which is the entity with legal authority to request income and other data from individuals on a confidential basis; (b) developing and using the NUR at the Ministry of Finance (MOF), a large number of existing databases (i.e. payroll databases of different government agencies, formal private sector workers, pensioners, military, data on beneficiaries of the National Aid Fund (NAF), property and vehicle registration databases, civil registry database) will be consolidated and updated regularly in the unified registry unit operating in the MOF. 2) The second component, piloting the Integrated Outreach Worker Program (IOWP),is inculded as an integral part of its action plan in the recently launched Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) for 2013-2017, and has two sub-components as follows: (a) outreach design, planning and training of outreach workers, will finance the: (i) assessing and documenting of available services and referral systems using evidence-based community assessment tools; (ii) developing of the train-the-trainer model which will incorporate supervision and follow-up trainings to assure quality control; (iii) establishing of the Household (HH) typology and selection criteria; (iv) establishing selection criteria for recruiting supervisors and outreach workers; and (v) collecting of comprehensive baseline data for households within the identified impact area using real-time mobile surveying technology; b) outreach deployment and monitoring, will be responsible for recruitment of the outreach workers based on the selection criteria developed under sub-component 2(a).

FY17 - Social Protection

World Bank Group

Project

Rail, Forest Products and Packaging, Commercial, Government