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Labour-Intensive Public Works Programme
Programme
Country
Geographic area
Labour-Intensive Public Works Programme
Guinea
Sub-Saharan Africa
Previous programme name (if any)
Start date 2013 1
Programme objectives To provide income support to vulnerable groups. 2
Programme type
Cash for work; training
Programme components
Conditionalities (if any)
Targeting methods
Geographical targeting
The beneficiary targeting process combines a self-selection approach
and community-based selection. A targeting committee has been created
in each community to select beneficiaries among all those who would
have registered after the sensitisation campaign.
Target areas
Urban and peri-urban areas.
Target groups
Underemployed and unemployed people.
Eligibility criteria
Beneficiaries are underemployed and unemployed youth
(over 18 years old) who are able to work. 2
Eligibility reassessment (if any)
Type of benefits
Cash
Amount of benefits
GNF35,000 per day; the amount depends on the specific
areas of intervention and their current market rates. 2,3
Payment/delivery frequency
Weekly
Benefit delivery mechanism
Benefit recipient
At least 40 per cent of beneficiaries should be women.
Minimum and maximum
30 days of work per beneficiary
duration of benefits (if any)
Coverage 24,000 beneficiaries 2
Programme expenditure USD16.5 million (2012) 2
Institutions and agencies involved Government of Guinea; World Bank
Monitoring and evaluation
mechanisms and frequency
See the references on page 171: Labour-Intensive Public Works Programme
The Safety Net Unit—Cellule Filets Sociaux (CFS)—and its monitoring
and evaluation specialist are responsible for coordinating the
monitoring and evaluation activities and impact evaluation. 2
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