ON-GOING PROJECTS SOCIAL SERVICES DELIVERY PROJECT
implementation. The support to three LSMSs and a Household Budget Survey (carried out by INSTAT), has been completed successfully. Positive results have also been achieved on the capacity building front, both at central and local level. The State Social Services Institute (SSS) was transformed to an Inspectorate for monitoring, managing and delivering social services. Moreover, a total of 44 sub-projects have been established with the Project support and are currently under implementation. Activities introduced after the Project restructuring (in 2006) including: (i) support for the Government strategy for the decentralization/deinstitutionalization and transformation of residential care centers by improving the quality of care based on the new national standards, and (ii) support for redesigning the welfare cash benefits system (NE) as part of the integrated social assistance system, as clearly outlined in the government strategy; are already completed. The project was restructured, aiming to use the cost savings amounted for around USD 2.7 million (resulted from the exchange rate fluctuations). After that, the project also benefited from an additional financing (for an amount of US$ 5.0 million). This resulted in an extension of the original closing date, until September 30, 2012. Currently, the project has already started implementing the newly introduced activities, including: (i) support for the Social Insurance Institute for designing the archive IT system, the physical rehabilitation of the archive building, rehabilitation of the regional offices of the Social Insurance Institute, assessment of the hardware for interconnectivity, data protection system, etc. ď ą
Disbursement
US$10 million (as of May 2010) Contact Points
Task Team Leader Government Contact Person
Lorena Kostallari, Tel: 355-42 280-650/1; Fax: 355-42-240590 e-mail: lkostallari@worldbank.org Astrit Hado, Deputy Director of Social Insurance Institute, Tel: 355 4222 78 50, e-mail:hadoastrit@yahoo.com
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