State Employment and Expenditure for Results Project

The project development objective (PDO) is to enhance opportunities for employment and access to socio-economic services whileimproving the public expenditure management systems in the participating states. Achievement of the PDO will be measured by thefollowing key performance indicators: (i) Number of people employed under SEEFOR youth employment program in participating states(disaggregated by self-employed, formal employment, and gender); (ii) Number of people with access to services supported intargeted communities (disaggregated by specific services: water points, classrooms, electricity connections, improve sanitationfacilities, etc.); (iii) Percentage deviation of actual aggregate expenditure from budgeted expenditure in the participatingstates; (iv) Percentage of public contracts above threshold awarded through competitive process in each participatingstate. Project Beneficiaries The main beneficiaries of the project are the four state governments with selected ministries,departments and agencies and communities in Bayelsa, Edo, Delta and Rivers states. Specifically the direct beneficiaries ofComponent A – Youth Employment and Access to Socio-Economic services – are mainly youths who are unemployed and/or seeking to betrained in vocational and technical courses in order to find jobs or set up on their own, the technical and vocational traininginstitutions themselves and the state ministries of education and agriculture. In addition, the state agencies responsible forpublic works and waste management will be provided with technical assistanc for their oversight function on the sub-component foryouth employment. The beneficiaries of the CDD sub-component are community groups and associations in the four participatingstates, including farmers, women groups and youths in the rural areas. ThePFM component will provide technical assistance tosupport reforms and capacity building in MDAs that deal with state public finance. These will include offices and staff ofMinistries of Budget and/or Economic Planning, Finance, Due Process/Public Procurement, Board of Internal Revenue and State Housesof Assembly.