Enhancing the Social Protection System for Human Capital and Resilience Project

The development objective of the Enhancing the Social Protection System for Human Capital and Resilience Project for Angola is to increase access to opportunities to build foundational human capital and household resilience, and to strengthen the social protection system. The project comprises of four components. The first component, human capital and resilience building consists of following sub-components: (i) increasing investments in human capital among beneficiary households; (ii) strengthening beneficiary households’ resilience and adaptiveness to climatic shocks; and (iii) enhancing productive opportunities. The second component, improving social protection implementation and institutional capacity will be implemented by FAS- Local Development Institute (IDL) (Subcomponent 2A) and Ministry of Social Action, Family and Promotion of Women (MASFAMU) (Subcomponent 2B) in accordance with their respective legal mandates, with each having independent fiduciary and management responsibility. It consists of following sub-components: (i) improving efficiency of Kwenda program delivery systems; and (ii) strengthening social protection systems, policy, and develop social protection (SP) skills. The third component, project management, and monitoring and evaluation (M and E) consists of following sub-components: (i) FAS-IDL project management and M and E; and (ii) MASFAMU project management and capacity building. The fourth component, contingency emergency response component (CERC) will allow the government to quickly reallocate and mobilize funds to support response to an eligible crisis or emergency.