The technical cooperation will finance technical assistance necessary to prepare a policy program to improve the impact, effectiveness and coordination i the Colombian social safety net and poverty alleviation programs. This technical cooperation has as its specific objectives to assist GOC to prepare feasibility and other preparatory studies for reforms in five key areas of social protection and poverty alleviation: (i) fiscal instruments to assure anti-cyclical financing of the safety net and protect investments in the human capital of the poor during crisis; (ii) reforms to the existing mechanisms of protection of the elderly poor; (iii) targeting; (iv) feasibility studies for the reform of labor income protection measures currently in place; and (v) communications and dissemination for policy change.
Project Detail
Country
Colombia
Project Number
TC0102044
Approval Date
August 8, 2001
Project Status
Closed
Project Type
Technical Cooperation
Sector
SOCIAL INVESTMENT
Subsector
SOCIAL INVESTMENT
Lending Instrument
-
Lending Instrument Code
-
Modality
-
Facility Type
-
Environmental and Social Impact Category (ESIC)
-
Total Cost
USD 276,575.00
Country Counterpart Financing
USD 49,000.00
Original Amount Approved
USD 227,575.00