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The objective of the project is to assist the government in developing a social sector strategy to redirect its social expenditures into well-targeted and efficient programs, by financing high priority activities, within the framework of its Social Sectors Action Program. The project supports: (a) rehabilitation and development of the primary health care network, including provision of basic health and nutrition services for pregnant and nursing women and children under six years of age; (b) development and expansion of pre-school education, focused on the lower-income urban and rural areas; (c) information, education and communications services for health, nutrition, and education promotion; and (d) improvement of the government's capacity to design, plan and implement social programs and to monitor the effect of such programs.