SOCIAL ACTION PRG II

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The overall goal of the Second Social Action Program Project (SAPP II) is to improve the quality of social services, and to increase practical access to and use of these basic services, particularly for women and girls and more generally for the poor. While SAPP II will work mainly with government, it will also strengthen and finance nongovernmental organization (NGO) and private sector efforts through fostering partnerships and establishing funding and communication mechanisms to directly support these efforts. There are four components: 1) The Program Support component provides time-slice financing for each of the total subprograms based on these agreements. Support builds government capacity for joint planning, monitoring, and implementing of social service programs with civil society in the sectors of health (including reproductive health), education, and rural water supply and sanitation. 2) The Participatory Development component decentralizes decisionmaking and resource management; and strengthens management capacity at the district and community levels and beneficiary participation. 3) The Coordination, Monitoring, and Evaluation component strengthens government's monitoring and analytic capacity at the federal and provincial levels. 4) Technical Assistance and Institutional Capacity Development is made available to central and implementing line departments involved in the social action program as a fourth component.