Piauí Health and Social Protection Development Project

The objective of the Piauí Health and Social Protection Development Project is to strengthen health surveillance, social protection, and employment service delivery systems to benefit the Borrower’s vulnerable population. There are four components to the project, the first component being strengthening health surveillance systems and capacities. This component aims to strengthen the state health surveillance systems and capacities by improving their structures and introducing coordination and management mechanisms for service provision, focused on priority populations and regions of the state with weaker services. The second component is the strengthening social protection systems and capacities. This component aims to improve the state social protection and employment service delivery systems and capacities by strengthening benefits of social assistance for those in immediate need, structuring services to promote economic opportunities, and improving the state’s ability to play a more effective role in overseeing and supporting the social protection and labor activities in the state, especially to respond more effectively to economic, social, and climate-related shocks. The third component is the strengthening food and nutrition surveillance and food security response. This component responds to the growing challenge, including due to climate impacts, of food insecurity in Piauí, requiring a coordinated approach. Finally, the fourth component is the project management. This component aims to strengthen the capacity of state agencies and provide overall implementation support to the Project Coordination Unit (Unidade de Coordenação do Projeto, PCU) and Project Implementation Unit (Unidades de Implementação do Projeto, PIU) in technical, environmental, social, fiduciary, supervision, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), and communications-related areas, including training and operating costs.