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F.a: Child Sensitive Social Protection in Nepal

The project focuses ensuring that social protection policies and programmes are child sensitive and result in improved development outcomes for children. To achieve this the project engages with all levels of government while emphasis is placed at municipal level as this is where social protection activities are anchored and opportunities to influence are multiple. Building on the success of past approaches and achievements, securing access to social protection for all people eligible, and especially the most marginalised, will be a key focus that will be scaled up in additional districts and municipalities. This will strengthen the economic position of households which also gives scope to better provide for their children. To ensure impact on children, focused inputs are given to the beneficiaries of the government Child Grant through a parenting programme as well as capacity building of health staff. The project will engage with social protection policy and programme development in municipalities as well as at provincial and federal level with the objective of advancing CSSP.