Preparation Social Reform Program

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The technical cooperation will finance technical assistance necessary to prepare a policy program to improve the impact, effectiveness and coordination i the Colombian social safety net and poverty alleviation programs. This technical cooperation has as its specific objectives to assist GOC to prepare feasibility and other preparatory studies for reforms in five key areas of social protection and poverty alleviation: (i) fiscal instruments to assure anti-cyclical financing of the safety net and protect investments in the human capital of the poor during crisis; (ii) reforms to the existing mechanisms of protection of the elderly poor; (iii) targeting; (iv) feasibility studies for the reform of labor income protection measures currently in place; and (v) communications and dissemination for policy change.