Despite the significant progress Ukraine made on its structural reform agenda, social assistance reform remains a key priority in the face of high levels of poverty (estimated at 27 percent according to the World Bank (WB) methodology, 2016 data) and continuing fiscal pressures.
... See More + The modernization of the safety-net can provide much more effective welfare support to the population while consuming fewer fiscal resources. The key to this approach is fiscal consolidation and rebalancing of the fiscal resources from housing utilities subsidy (HUS) to minimum income support (GMI) for improved targeting of social safety net spending. This will entail a gradual contraction of the HUS and, the expansion of the GMI, and the integration of some child benefits such as the single mother benefit into the GMI. Such integration of support is expected to improve targeting of social spending, reduce fiscal pressures, improve benefits for poor households, simplify the system, standardize rules, and discourage welfare dependency. The end-goal for the reform is to develop a system that supports more equitable distribution of welfare expenditures, with the GMI playing a central safety net role, and HUS playing a smaller complementary role to support energy affordability for most vulnerable groups.
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The development objective of Improving Resilience and Emergency Response Project for Romania is to enhance the resilience of Romanian Police Facilities that are critical to respond to Emergency Situations and disasters and to strengthen the institutional capacities for emergency preparedness and response.
... See More + This project has three components. 1) The first component, Enhance the Resilience of Selected Romanian Police Infrastructure to be Used in Disaster Response, aims to support priority retrofitting and reconstruction investments and technical assistance to enhance the emergency situations response capacity of selected Romanian Police Facilities and guide future infrastructure planning that covers the entire building stock managed by the Romanian Police. It has the following subcomponents: (i) Priority Investments; and (ii) Long-Term Infrastructure Investment Planning. 2) The second component, Operational Readiness and Public Awareness, aims to strengthen the institutional capacity of the Romanian Police to ensure operational readiness in the event of an emergency through a series of training and acquisition of essential emergency equipment. It has the following subcomponents: (i) Operational Readiness for Emergency Response; and (ii) Public Awareness. 3) The third component, Project Management, aims to strengthen the institutional capacity of the Romanian Police in project management.
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The development objective of the Strengthening Preparedness and Critical Emergency Infrastructure Project for Romania is to enhance the resilience of Romanian Gendarmerie Facilities that are critical to respond to Emergency Situations and disasters and to strengthen the institutional capacities for emergency preparedness and response.
... See More + It has three components. First component, Enhance the Resilience of Selected Romanian Gendarmerie Infrastructure to be Used in Disaster Response will support priority retrofitting and reconstruction investments and technical assistance to enhance the emergency situations response capacity of selected Romanian Gendarmerie facilities and guide future infrastructure planning that covers the entire building stock managed by the General Inspectorate of the Romanian Gendarmerie (GIRG).It has two sub-components. (i) Priority Investments, and (ii) Long-Term Infrastructure Investment Planning; Second component, Operational Readiness and Public Awareness will strengthen the institutional capacity of the Romanian Gendarmerie to ensure operational readiness in the event of an emergency through a series of trainings and acquisition of essential emergency equipment. It has two sub-components.(i) Operational Readiness for Emergency Response, and (ii) Public Awareness; Third component, Project Management will strengthen the institutional capacity of the Romanian Gendarmerie in project management. This component will support operating costs to ensure timely and efficient implementation of the project. It will also cover costs related to activities designed to build the Romanian Gendarmerie’s technical, procurement, financial management (FM), monitoring and evaluation (M&E), and environmental and social safeguards capacities. This component will also support the establishment and operation of a grievance redress mechanism (GRM) to address and mitigate adverse impacts on citizens that may arise during implementation.
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