Social Services Improvement Project

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The development objective of the Social Services Improvement Project for Macedonia is to expand access to and improve the quality of social services, including preschool services, for vulnerable groups. The project comprises of three components. The first component, promoting social inclusion through improved access to social benefits and services objective is to strengthen the overall social protection delivery system for improved services by existing social assistance recipients and by vulnerable groups. The second component, expanding the access to and improving of the quality of preschool services will focus on improving access to quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) services, in particular for children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds (that is, poor children, children with disabilities, and Roma children). The third component, project management, monitoring and evaluation will support the day‐to‐day management of project implementation and the monitoring and evaluation (M and E) of its objectives and outcomes.