WASHINGTON, June 12, 2008- The following projects were approved today by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors:
IDA Grant: US$ 6 million
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Health and Social Protection Grant under the Global Food Crisis Response Program aims to improve health status in the Kyrgyz Republic: by (a) improving access, financial protection, efficiency, equity and fiduciary performance in the Kyrgyz health sector; (b) ensuring sufficient and reliable financing for the health sector; (c) strengthening the targeting of social benefits by developing effective administration and information management systems to improve access to social services in general; (d) protecting and improving health and nutritional status of particularly vulnerable populations in the Kyrgyz Republic in the face of food price shocks, by providing nutritional supplements and nutrition education to pregnant/lactating women and infants/young children; and (e) helping poor Kyrgyz families manage and mitigate the impact of food price shocks and protect consumption (general and food consumption) by scaling up and strengthening targeted cash transfers.
For more information, please call Mike Jones at (202) 473-2588 or e-mail here at mjones2@worldbank.org
For more information on this project please visit: www.worldbank.org/kr
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