Second Social Action Project

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The Second Social Action Project will benefit the most vulnerable poor groups, from improved social and economic services, and promote partial financing of priority investments, among a diversity of community groups working in unison. The project supports the objectives of the Country Assistance Strategy, in that it will provide employment among poor rural communities, infrastructure will be restored, and, social services delivery will be expanded. The main components will : 1) promote community investments, increasing community capacity to select, finance, and operate local investments. This will improve social stability, and mobilize communities towards common interests and choices. In addition, investments in infrastructure rehabilitation and construction, will help restore community services. Appropriate investments in health and nutrition, will target, specifically, young children and mothers, and will include early child development activities; and, 2) strengthen the statistical capacity for monitoring poverty reduction, and help build a social basis for peace at the local level.