SOCIAL FUND

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The objectives of the Social Investment Fund Project are to: (i) mitigate the social costs of adjustment and allow economic reform measures to be put into place rapidly with the necessary support of the population; (ii) lay the basis for a decentralized program of direct support for the poor and malnourished to buy food; and (iii) support the improvement of service delivery in the social ministeries. The project will have four components: (i) the financing of the Honduran Social Investment Fund (FHIS); (ii) support to a pilot targeted nutrition assistance program; (iii) technical assistance to help design a program to improve the efficiency and equity of the services of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education; and (iv) the setting up of a monitoring and evaluation system of the government's social policy interventions through the use of a Living Standards Measurement Study.