Strengthening of the National Social Protection Strategy Puente al Desarrollo to break the cycle of poverty at the local level with a gender and environmental perspective

The Joint Collaborative Programme (JCP) will support the government’s vision around improvement of its flagship strategy- “Estrategia Puente al Desarollo (EPD)”- to strengthen the social protection system and accelerate SDG achievement through concrete changes in institutional arrangements and local initiatives in three specific cantons enhancing synergies and coordination between economic, social and environmental nacional policies. Focusing on leaving no one behind, it includes a local approach and an institutional one. Targeting women and their families in three of the most excluded coastal and border cantons, three local models will be implemented to effectively reduce women’s unemployment, increase productivity and boost poverty reduction at local level, with clear indicators and a monitoring system to ensure results and facilitate replication in other cantons. Interventions will be grounded on strengthening local participatory approaches for local development to ensure tailor-made, environmentally sustainable solutions with local ownership through Local Innovative Gender-Sensitive Laboratories. These are people-centred platforms of public and private inter-institutional partnerships, including local and national government, private sector and trade unions, civil society, community-based organizations and women’s groups and academia. At the national level, the joint programme will enhance the EPD Institutional Model, offering more effective and integrated and effective social protection and economic services for female-headed households and families, through the labour, agriculture and welfare components, and with emphasis on coordination within various institutions in partnership with civil society, academia and private sector.

Project symbol

CRI/19/50/UND

Admin unit

DWT/CO-San Jose

Start date

01/01/2020

End date

31/12/2021

Total allocation

374539

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

374539

Development Partners

Multi Partner Trust Fund Office, UNDP

Country/Countries

Costa Rica

Outcomes

Outcome 8: Comprehensive and sustainable social protection for all