Building Resilience and Reducing Rural Poverty Project

approved

The proposed project will expand a targeted, nutrition-sensitive conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to up to 30,000 poor households in areas with high rates of poverty, malnutrition, and climate risks, and make social protection systems more adaptive and shock-responsive. The CCT targets poor pregnant women and mothers of children under two as adequate nutrition is critical during the first 1,000 days of a child's life. The project will also introduce an innovative poverty graduation program that builds on the CCT to address the multiple facets of deprivation experienced by rural women, supporting climate-resilient and sustainable livelihoods. The CCT and poverty graduation programs will reduce poverty and food insecurity, empower women, and build resilience to increasing health, economic, and climate vulnerabilities.