The project is designed to change the basis of social impact contracts, making them proactively address the needs of service recipients rather than react to requests from beneficiaries. It is intended that mail carriers of Russian Post, which is the investor (funder) and service provider, will be involved in identifying low-income families in remote municipalities in the Primorie Territory (the towns of Dalnegorsk, Arsenyev and the municipalities of Kavalerovo, Anuchino, Terney, Chuguyevka and Yakovlevka) and helping them to obtain social impact contracts to start their businesses, receive support for business development or have vocational training. Social impact contracts should incentivise economically disadvantaged adults to take action to overcome their problems.
Intended social outcomes:
- provide more information to low-income families with children about the availability of the government’s social assistance under social impact contracts, including families potentially entitled to such assistance and identified under the project (at least 100 families having children and entitled to the government’s social assistance under social impact contracts were identified);
- increase the number of low-income families having children and obtaining social impact contracts (at least 270 low-income families with children obtained social impact contracts).
The desired social outcomes are to be achieved through informing low-income families in the project’s municipalities about potential benefits of social impact contracts, conducting a survey of families with children in the project’s municipalities with respect to their socio-economic condition (which will identify additional families for registration with social protection authorities), and ensuring that social impact contracts will individually meet the needs of each family.
Project participants
