| Project Detail |
The development objective of Social Safety Net Project for The, Gambia is to improve the coordination of social assistance activities and increase inclusion of the extreme poor in the Nafa program. This project has three components. 1) The first component, Development of Co-ordination Mechanisms for the Social Assistance Sector, aims to provide mechanisms to help coordination of social assistance activities. It has the following subcomponents: (i) Support for the establishment of a Social Protection Secretariat; and (ii) Support for the establishment of a Social Registry. 2) The second component, Nafa Program of Cash Transfers to the Eligible Extreme Poor and Social and Behavioral Change Communication, aims to finance: (a) the unconditional cash grants to beneficiaries; (b) the fees for the payment service provider; (c) the costs of community validation exercises, registration events, training of trainers and direct operational costs of the delivery of Social and Behavioral Change Communication (SBCC); (d) the development of new SBCC modules; (e) training costs to cascade the SBCC modules; (f) costs of printing beneficiary cards and SBCC materials; and (g) vehicles; and (h) an Impact Evaluation. 3) The third component, Project Management and Capacity Building, aims to finance the costs associated with the management of the project and capacity building activities |
