Third Social Action Fund (MASAF III)

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Under The Third Social Action Fund Project (APL) (MASAF 3) for Malawi, the distributed nodes of social capital generated through MASAF I and I1 will be networked to both optimize the social capital generated as well as to facilitate i t s incremental conversion into economic capital. There are five project components. The first component, Community Development Projects combines two of the current components under MASAF 11, Community Sub-projects and Public Works Program, for effective integration into the local authority (LA) management framework. It will continue to finance demand-driven community-based socio-economic activities, including infrastructure, which include inter alias: construction and/or rehabilitation related to the provision of basic social services in health, education and water; afforestation, terracing, community roads and bridges, community centers, food processing technologies, energy efficiency interventions, training, and others. The Social Support Projects stimulates and supports traditional coping systems which rely on the extended family to mitigate against foster households experiencing deepening poverty after taking in vulnerable individuals. The vulnerable include: widows and widowers, the aged, orphans and foster parents, the destitute, the disabled, persons affected by HIVIAIDS, and malnourished under-fives. The project will finance initiatives identified by communities working with NGOs/CBOs, and these projects will contribute to household food and nutrition security for the vulnerable individuals and foster households. The component will assist in the development of long-term capacity and provide technical assistance to NGOs/CBOs working directly with the vulnerable groups at the district, ward, and village levels. The third component, Community Savings and Investment Promotion (COMSIP) will, given the few formal opportunities for saving that exist, promote a savings and investment culture among the poor. Support under this component will not include the transfer of monies for savings or credit purposes, but will include promotion of COMSIGs of 10-15 members each. The fourth component, Transparency and Accountability Promotion, will develop suitable technical guidelines, generate data from the work of communities and partner institutions, process such data into useful information, disseminate, and package it into suitable materials for training. This component will also focus on developing an effective MIS which will feed into the overall monitoring and evaluation system. The fifth component, the Institutional Development component, will address the internal capacity requirements of MASAF to deliver in a transparent and accountable way. It will finance the continued provision of technically competent staff to work at the MASAF MU, and strengthen LA capacity to implement the community sub-project cycle with technical and financial expertise.

FY17 - Financial Sector,FY17 - Transportation

World Bank Group

Project

Road, Water Supply and Storage, Government, Education