Title:
Food and Nutrition Social Welfare Programme and Project (Capacity Development Project - M&E)
Food and Nutrition Social Welfare Programme and Project (Capacity Development Project - M&E)
Start Date:
November 2010
November 2010
Completion Date:
June 2011
June 2011
Client(s):
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Funder(s):
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Location:
Mongolia, Eastern Asia,
Mongolia, Eastern Asia,
Key Contact:
Andrew Kardan
Andrew Kardan
Summary:
The Mongolian Ministry of Social Welfare and Labour (MSWL), with support from the ADB implemented a food stamp project to provide support to poor and vulnerable households. This project was a multi-workstream exercise with the objective of reviewing the capacity needs and solutions required by the MSWL to effectively manage such benefits programmes using innovative targeting approaches. The assignment had the following components:
1. A comprehensive institutional capacity assessment of the MSWL to deliver targeted safety nets and make recommendations for institutional reform and capacity building at MSWL;
2. Report and recommendations on social expenditure and fiscal sustainability analysis of the present social welfare system, food stamp programmes, and long-term social welfare reforms;
3. Report and recommendations on improvements to the recording of in-migration and the civil registration system under the food stamp programme, and the future development of inter-sectoral databases;
4. A comprehensive Knowledge Product on the Social Welfare Institutional Reforms and Capacity Building carried out in Mongolia over the previous 10 years;
5. Strategic and operational support to local entities and the MSWL in undertaking communications programmes to disseminate information on the food stamp programme.
1. A comprehensive institutional capacity assessment of the MSWL to deliver targeted safety nets and make recommendations for institutional reform and capacity building at MSWL;
2. Report and recommendations on social expenditure and fiscal sustainability analysis of the present social welfare system, food stamp programmes, and long-term social welfare reforms;
3. Report and recommendations on improvements to the recording of in-migration and the civil registration system under the food stamp programme, and the future development of inter-sectoral databases;
4. A comprehensive Knowledge Product on the Social Welfare Institutional Reforms and Capacity Building carried out in Mongolia over the previous 10 years;
5. Strategic and operational support to local entities and the MSWL in undertaking communications programmes to disseminate information on the food stamp programme.