Final Report on the project: EVALUATION OF THE FACTORS AFFECTING THE MECHINISM OF TARGETED SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
Project title: EVALUATION OF THE FACTORS AFFECTING THE MECHINISM OF TARGETED SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
1.1.Summary
The investigation has been carried out by the Economic Research Centre, in the framework of the project supported by the Oxfam Novib Netherlands organisations.
1.1.2. Purpose of the Project:
The main purpose of the project is to decrease inclusion and exclusion mistakes of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Population (MLSPP), as well as refine the mechanisms for the targeted social assistance (TSA), simplify the procedures for application, and to decrease the cost of application for the needy segments of the population.
Reseach of the quality of the appliing of the new mechanism with understanding of it’s social majority, apparaice of information of the population about the TSA, determination of the factors affecting the inclusion and exclusion mistakes, determination of the differences between law and real action of the system, making the system more useful for the poor people, simplifying of the appeal procedures were selected as the main purpose of the research work.
Analysis of the system’s action is one of the main purposes of the research from the point of simplifying of TSA’s use by poors by making direct orders and suggestions.
1.1.3. Objective of the Project:
The main objective of the project is to support the Ministry (MLSPP) by the preparation of proposals dealing with the refinement of the mechanism for TSA thought the elimination of inclusion and exclusion errors, as well as on the diminution of the cost of application, particularly for the needy sections of the population, through the simplification of the procedures for application. Also, the investigation has sought to assess the level of public awareness and to analyse the expectations of household economies from the TSA system.
To achieve the above-mentioned objectives, the following issues have