Mongolia Resident Mission

How ADB is Helping the Poor in Mongolia

• Social Security Sector
• Health Sector
• Education Sector
• Agriculture Sector
• Urban Infrastructure Sector

Social Security Sector

Social welfare services for members of vulnerable groups will be improved under the project. A greater emphasis will be placed on renovating the national system of nursing homes for the elderly.

ADB is assisting to improve the effectiveness of the social security system to better target the poor while increasing the efficiency of the services by shifting focus more to preventive approaches at the community and family levels and away from reactive, centralized approaches.

The Social Security Sector Development Project (SSSDP) will include direct and indirect poverty interventions, and poor people are expected to comprise at least 72 percent of the beneficiaries.

The SSSDP comprises a policy program and investment project in four areas:

• rationalizing social assistance system to focus resources on the poorest
• developing pro-poor labor market policies
• strengthening social insurance system to increase the resource available for insurance for unemployment, injuries and diseases
• developing a medium and long-term policy and planning framework for the social security sector

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Health Sector

The Health Sector Development Program aimed to change health sector policy as a whole, to move away from hospital centered curative health system, and to develop a new custom oriented health system focused on provision of primary health care through a system of Family Group Practices.

Family Group Practices are teams of doctors and nurses working as private entities through contracts with local administration. During project implementation, the Government of Mongolia has established 237 FGPs in UB and in all aimag centers. 1.28 million Mongolian people (which is 55.4 % of the total population) were registered with and are being served by FGPs. Each family practice serves an average of 1250 families and 5540 people.

ADB’s assistance also includes a Regional Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project which is helping to ensure poor mothers and children receive access to vital micronutrients.

Read the Report and Recommendation of the President on this project.

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Education Sector

The Second Education Development Project (SEDP) will improve access to, and quality and sustainability of preschool, primary, and secondary education in poorer rural and urban communities by

• Rehabilitating and constructing schools to increase capacity, and improving learning and residential environments including energy saving systems
• Modernizing science education, providing learning materials, training teachers, and integrating information and communication technologies and vocational education into secondary education
• Improving education management at provincial, district, and school levels

The project will also promote integrating disabled children into mainstream schooling.

We expect that at least 140,000 children of kindergarten and school age will benefit from the project. The project will also enhance the external efficiency of both primary and secondary education programs and their relevance to the emerging social and economic context.

In addition, a JFPR project is helping to retrain poor disabled people and assist them to enter the workforce.

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Agriculture Sector

ADB has been focusing on delivering an integrated package of critical support services to improve productivity and profitability in the agriculture sector.

The Agriculture Sector Development Project covers production and marketing support and credit to agriculture businesses.

The Project in being implemented in four relatively remote Western provinces, where living standard is lower than in more centrally located areas. The key components of the project are:

• Expanding small-scale horticulture production among vulnerable groups under the Green Revolution Program
• Strengthening veterinary services
• Rehabilitating wells
• Developing the cooperative system to provide better marketing and processing services to agricultural producers
• Improving rural communications links
• Providing small credit to agriculture businesses in four Western and two central provinces with capacity building and training activities for participating financial institutions and sub-borrowers

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Urban Infrastructure Sector

ADB’s operations in urban infrastructure help to improve basic physical urban infrastructure and services in provincial towns, to reduce poverty by increasing living standards and to improve the sustainability of investments in this sector.

The Provincial Towns Basic Urban Services Project covered five Western provinces and was successfully completed in 2002. The Project extended or replaced water distribution lines, rehabilitated sewage system, provided modern machinery for solid waste collection and built two bathhouses in each project town. Flow and bulk meters were installed at pumping stations and public buildings and water meters for hot and cold water were installed in residential apartments to monitor and reduce water loss and leakage.

Building on the positive experience of this project, ADB approved a second project in 2002. The Second Project aims to implement a similar scope of objectives in 8 more provincial towns of Mongolia. The Project will directly help reduce poverty by giving the poor better access to improved basic urban services.

Read the Report and Recommendation of the President on this project.