Social Safety Net Project

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Closed

The Social Safety Net Project will be a capacity building operation aimed at improving mechanisms to identify the poor and make social programs more effective and efficient in targeting and delivering social assistance, especially to the most vulnerable groups. The project will have a duration of four years and will comprise four main components: 1) the social assistance reform component will provide equipment, technical assistance and training to strengthen the capacity of the Department of Social Protection of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection (MLSP) to provide targeted social assistance, including cash and inkind benefits, and mobilize nongovernmental organizations and community organizations to enhance such assistance; 2) the poverty and unemployment monitoring component will provide equipment, technical assistance and training to strengthen the capacity of the State Committee for Statistics Goskomstat to carry out surveys, especially of poverty and unemployment; 3) the employment services component will provide equipment, technical assistance and training to strengthen the capacity of the Employment Service under the MLSP; and 4) the training component will provide technical assistance, training equipment and materials to ensure the availability of a minimum capacity to respond to market demand for training in skills needed in a market economy through short, flexible training programs for persons wishing to upgrade their skills or for the unemployed.

FY17 - Education,FY17 - Public Administration,FY17 - Social Protection

World Bank Group

Project

Commercial, Government, Education