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Mongolia
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Grant: MON 42322-01
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Project Name
Food and Nutrition Social Welfare Program and Project (Capacity Development Project)
Executing Agency
Ministry of Finance (formerly Ministry of Finance & Economy)
Grant Amount (US$ '000)
3,000.00
Sector/Subsector
Health, Nutrition, & Social Protection /Social Protection
Date of First Listing
21 August 2008
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- Project Impact
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Vulnerability to food insecurity reduced through increased supply of and improved access to food by vulnerable and poor households.
- Project Outcome
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Improved access to food by vulnerable and poor households through a targeted food stamp program and strengthened social welfare systems.
- Project Outputs
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Component 1: Design and implementation of a targeted food stam program
1.1 Innovative targeting approaches for food stamps pilot-tested by December 2009.
1.2 A mechanism for delivering food stamps is established by June 2009.
Component 2: Capacity development and communication strategy
2.1 Capacity development tools for national and local stakeholders and institutional strengthening designed and implemented by January 2010.
2.2 A communication strategy to ensure transparent implementation of the food stamp program developed and implemented by December 2009.
Component 3: Strengthening social welfare strategies and systems
3.1 Effective food crisis response by 2010
3.2 A package of reform of social welfare strategies by October 2011.
- Consulting Services
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Program Grant
A team of 7 national consultants, to be headed by a Team Leader will form the FSOU to undertake the setting up activities and coordinate the implementation of the Food Stamp Program. The team will be complemented by intermittent international assistance (4 person-months). The FSOU will be lodged within the PIU and will also provide technical support, coordination, monitoring and supervision of the work of the consultants under Components 2 and 3. A total of 252 person-months of consulting inputs will be provided by these consultants over 3 years. Government will hire the 7 national consultants and the international targeting specialist before start before starting the Program indicatively from October 2008 to prepare for the implementation of Component 1 of the Program (21 person-months national and two person-months international). These consultants wil be hired by Government under the program.
Project Grant
The Project will require a total of 74 person-months of international and 224 person-months of national consulting services financed under the ADB grant. The international and national consultants will have expertise in (i) targeting, (ii) impact analysis, (iii) monitoring and evaluation, (iv) institutional capacity building, (v) social expenditure analysis, (vi) development communication, (vii) community/rural development, (viii) social safety nets, and (ix) civil registration. The consultants will be selected and engaged in accordance with ADB's Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007, as amended from time to time). Qualtiy and cost-based selection procedure using a cost quality-ratio of 80:20 will be applied.
- Environmental Assessment
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Not Required
- Project Processing Stage
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Approved by the Bank
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10 December 2008
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- Recruitment of Consultants
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Recruitment of consultants expected to take place in early 2009.
- Project Officer
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Wendy M. Walker (632-6645)
- Social Sectors Division, EARD
- wwalker@adb.org
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