Social Action Fund Project

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The objective of the Social Action Fund Project, is to increase, and enhance the capacities of communities, and stakeholders to be able to manage development initiatives, and improve in the process, socioeconomic services. The components will: 1) finance, and support small demand-based community initiatives, to improve accessibility to, and delivery of social, and economic services, enhancing the capacity of communities, and local stakeholders. Subprojects will include improvement of basic health care facilities; construction, and rehabilitation of nursery, and pre-schools, as well as primary, and secondary schools; supply of essential equipment for primary, and junior schools; development of initiatives on water supply, and sanitation; and, construction of economic infrastructure, e.g., crop storage facilities, and markets; 2) finance labor-intensive works, as a safety net scheme for targeted poor rural areas, to provide cash income for the poor, in particular women, and youth, promoting job creation related to the construction of infrastructure facilities, complementing income earning with the construction of productive assets, such as village access roads, water retention structures for small-scale irrigation, and sewage systems; and, 3) support institutional development, and capacity building, through the provision of information, education, communication, and training, in a participatory manner.