Bhubaneswar: A wrap-up meeting with World Bank Mission Team on Externally Aided Project (EAP) – Odisha State Capability and Resilient Growth was held at Lok Seva Bhawan here on Wednesday.
Chairing the meeting, Development Commissioner-cum-ACS Anu Garg stressed on expediting EAP which is aimed at protecting the poor and vulnerable households from the impact of economic and climate shocks in Odisha. It would be possible by managing disaster-risks, and facilitating better use of digital data for resilience, service delivery and planning.
The Central Government has signed this agreement with the World Bank on July 14 with a cost of Rs.1,183 crore and the State Government’s funding is Rs.367 crore. The project has been declared effective from August 11 by the World Bank. The State Cabinet has approved this project on December 27 in 2022.
The will augment government effort in three areas like Increasing Coverage and scale up of an Adaptive Social Protection System, Disaster Risk Management Planning and Programmes through the Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA), R&DM Department, Electronics & IT Department and Better Data Quality through Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DES). An Independent Verification Agent (IVA) will assess the results achieved by the relevant line agencies.
The different component of the project include: (i) Development and Implementation of Social Protection Delivery Platform (SPDP) (ii) State Data Policy guidelines and documentation for future roll out and adoption and (iii) Strengthening resilience through deployment of early warning dissemination technology systems, and expanded citizen outreach.
Strengthening Statistical Systems for Better Planning and Resilience, Improving digital access and management of data for evidence based policy making and planning, Implementation of computer assisted survey technology (CAPI) were discussed in the meeting.
Among others, Principal Secretary of Finance, Principal Secretary of Electronics & IT, other senior officers from Finance Department, Govt of Odisha and officials from World Bank Mission Team were present in the meeting.
