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Key Cluster Progress against the EDPRS
Social Protection cont’d
Progress on Targets & Policy Actions Overall Comments
Percentage of eligible households granted direct support under VUP, Target: 60% Actual: 100%
- Fully implemented
- VUP targeting process is transparent –
village meetings are held each year to publicly update the targeting list information (household Ubudehe category land and labour)
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Actual: 100% category, land and labour)
- Lists of DS eligible households are
then publically posted
- Timeliness of payments improved
from previous year, more efficient quarterly disbursement systems being used
- VUP coordinated with other SP
activities
Key Cluster Progress against the EDPRS
Social Protection cont’d
Progress on Targets & Policy Actions Overall Comments
Number of vulnerable households accessing credit and savings facilities Target: 6,390 Actual: 55 675
- Component initiated in this
financial year
- number of good practices being
followed include clear beneficiary selection criteria including group
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Actual: 55,675 selection criteria, including group lending, revolving funds, and M&E systems set up to monitor success of loan projects and repayment levels Social protection: Challenges & Solutions Challenges Solutions
- A social protection strategy to provide a
results framework and strategic direction to the sector
- Need to coordinate and target social
protection interventions
- Need to enhance budget classification and
harmonize the classification across
- There is a draft Strategy which is being
discussed at the ministerial level
- Coordination meetings between social
protection interventionists are being held
- There are ongoing consultations with the
Ministr of Finance on ho to harmoni e the 30 harmonize the classification across different ministries and institutions with variant social protection mandates
Ministry of Finance on how to harmonize the budget classifications
- A new list of Key Performance Indicators
are currently being put in place to ensure better gender sensitive monitoring data across all VUP components
- Awareness sessions have provided all
beneficiaries with knowledge of government programs like nutrition, child education, health insurance, family planning, etc
Cross-cutting Issues cont’d
Gender
- 37,677 female headed households participated in VUP public
works during 2009-10. This is 48.6% of total PW beneficiaries.
- Initial findings from the VUP evaluation data show that there is
less impact on poverty levels in female headed households than p p y in male headed households. The fact that the evaluation system is allowing this degree of gender analysis of impact is a big improvement
- The implementation of all Water Supply and Sanitation Projects
provides employment opportunities and encourages female candidates, strong participation of women in decision making, both at project formulation and implementation phase
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