Actions in Jamaica

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• Social Inclusion

  Social Protection

  • Social Assistance
  • Social Security Administration

  Support capacity building and institutional frameworks for the implementation of social protection

  CARIBBEAN JAMAICA

  Start activities

  jul-2014

  End activities

  nov-2014

  Partner Institution

  Planning Institute of Jamaica

  Type of Assistance

  Legislative & regulatory framework development

  Code

  2014-03

  Description

  The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIoJ) is the foremost economic and social planning agency of the Jamaican Government. The PIoJ had a leading role in the elaboration of the Social Protection Strategy of the country, in 2014. Further, the PIoJ is in charge of coordinating the implementation of the Strategy’s actions and monitoring and evaluation corresponding operations. The success of which depends to a large extent on a careful and effective financial management to withstand economic shocks, which have been frequent in the Caribbean region. Experts mobilised transferred their experience and knowledge to their peers of the PIoJ in the areas of financing, monitoring and evaluation social protection. In addition, experts were to support the costing the existing Social Protection Floor [the minimum package of social assistance and protection services already in place] and the development of a monitoring and evaluation framework for social protection.