SOCIAL RECOVERY II

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The aim of the Second Social Recovery Project is to assist the Government of Zambia's poverty reduction program through financing of community initiatives and building of capacity for poverty analysis and monitoring. The project will finance community initiatives which assist the poor and vulnerable to meet their own objectives during the adjustment period and thereby allow faster economic and social recovery. The community-based micro-projects will include the rehabilitation and improvement of existing infrastructure and social service delivery. The project will also improve the capacity of communities and government staff to plan, appraise, manage and maintain investment projects through the experience gained in such micro-projects. The project will also enhance the capacity of Zambian institutions to collect and analyze poverty related data. The beneficiary communities will be involved in the information gathering as well as in the planning, design and implementation of the micro-projects. The project will strengthen the communities' abilities to take charge of their own development, rekindle the spirit of self-help, and strengthen the capacities of the relevant institutions to gather, analyze and act on relevant information. In order to achieve its objectives the project will have three components. The first is a community initiatives component which will finance microprojects identified, prepared and implemented by communities with appraisal and supervision from the Microprojects Unit (MPU); a sub-component will finance capacity building in microprojects implementation and decentralized government agencies. The second component will finance capacity building and data collection through a Living Conditions Monitoring Survey (LCMS) and a systematic participatory monitoring and assessment system. The last component will finance policy relevant research on poverty and social issues in a demand-driven framework, building on the success of the Study Fund under the First Social Recovery project.

FY17 - Public Administration,Financial Sector

World Bank Group

Project

Commercial, Government, Education