| Grant Profile: |
| Project Title: |
Emergency Social Service Delivery Project |
| PCF/LICUS/SPF: |
LICUS |
Status: |
Open |
| File Number: |
76
| Region: |
AFR |
| Sector: |
Health and other social services |
Country: |
Central African Republic |
| FY approved: |
2008 |
Grant Theme : |
Social protection and risk management |
| Keyword(s): |
Multi-Donor Trust Funds;Emergency social service delivery |
Approved Amount: |
$2,000,000.00 |
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Grant Recipient:
CTP-PAS (Prime Minister’s Office) |
Grant Purpose:
The main purpose of the proposed grant is to secure short-term, just-in-time support to protect social service workers’ salaries in the period March-April 2008 until further external resources can be realistically mobilized. The grant would be part of a multi-donor setting for supporting sustained improvements in government performance and service delivery by protecting social services delivery while budget support is being mobilized. The immediate objective of the proposed grant would be to avoid a disruption of social service delivery at this critical time.
By protecting social service salaries, the project would ensure continued service delivery and thus have the broader benefit of reducing the risk of social unrest that could derail the reform and peacebuilding process. A secondary objective of the grant is therefore maintenance of social peace and stability through 2008.
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Grant Activities:
The grant would reimburse the Government of the Central African Republic for salary payments (including pension contributions) for education and health sectors during the period March - April 2008. It complements the efforts to provide better health and education services under an ongoing and recently restructured HIV-AIDS project.
The grant is part of a multi-donor effort to finance government recurrent costs and provide technical assistance during a difficult transition until the government can both increase its own revenue base and benefit from broader debt relief. It is expected that the grant would contribute to increased external assistance flows to underpin recovery in the Central African Republic.
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