Nicaragua Social Protection

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The objectives of the Social Protection Project are to: (i) improve the basic conditions of welfare and social wellbeing of extremely poor beneficiary families with children in selected poor localities in Nicaragua; (ii) strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of the Family, Youth and Children (MIFAN) to implement the family and community-based social welfare model; and (iii) promote pre-school and primary school attendance through the provision of school lunches. This project has three components. Component one involves improving the basic conditions of welfare and social well-being of extremely poor families This component will: (a) provide technical assistance to MIFAN for improving the organization, structure and content of community-based workshop modules aimed at promoting human capital formation within the family, avoiding risky behaviors and improving parents’ knowledge and families use of social services; (b) provide personalized support, through social workers, to counseling targeted families for developing and implementing their family improvement plans, including the provision of, inter alia, training material to social workers and educational material to counseling targeted families related to the plans; and (c) provide family grants to community-based targeted families in participating departments, including the delivery of the family grants. Component two includes the strengthening of MIFAN's capacity. This component will: (a) provide technical assistance to MIFAN for strengthening its operational capacity to implement a family and community-based social welfare Model; (b) provide technical assistance to MIFAN for designing and implementing a management information system to improve the design, implementation and accountability of its family and community-based social welfare Model; and (c) provide technical assistance to MIFAN for strengthening Project management, coordination, supervision, monitoring and evaluation at central, regional and local levels. Component three comprises of supporting the Integral School Feeding Program.