SOCIAL SUPPORT

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The Social Support Project will help mitigate the negative social and economic impact of bankruptcy, and, labor restructuring of the Majority State Owned Enterprises (MSOEs), as well as, the emergency economic disruption, due to the conflict in Kosovo. Within the strategic context, the project will support the completion of enterprises privatization, and, will focus on poverty alleviation and human capital development, by targeting social assistance programs, and, upgrading social services. The main project components will include: 1) labor restructuring, to be financed through severance payments - regulated by law - for those workers displaced by bankruptcy or MSOEs' restructuring. In addition, social monitoring, will ensure needed social services are met. Limited assistance will be provided to develop employment services; 2) labor redeployment, which will facilitate those workers who, were either displaced due to labor restructuring or the conflict in Kosovo, or, are long-term unemployed, or first time job seekers, into the labor force. An administrative framework will be established, enabling government agencies to provide organizational services, as needed, for redeployment issues; 3) social benefits, to improve social programs effectiveness, and, develop institutional capacity, to evaluate social protection and labor market programs; and, 4) project management, to ensure an effective administration.

FY17 - Public Administration,FY17 - Social Protection

World Bank Group

Project

Government