CO Social Safety Net Project

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The Social Safety Net project for Colombia will strengthen the Government of Colombia (GOC's) capacity to reduce poverty and inequality and promote human capital investments among the poor. The project consists of the following componets: (i) Consolidation and expansion of the Familias en Accio'n program to 400,000 families by including extreme poor families in marginalized urban areas as well as high priority zones affected by violence. (ii) Improving the monitoring and evaluation system of the Ministry of Social Protection (MSP) in order to better track and critically review the country's social safety net portfolio. This component will support Ministry of Social Protection (MSP's) mandate of increasing transparency and efficiency of the social safety net and its various implementing agencies by establishing an integrated results-based monitoring and evaluation system in the Ministry that provides accountability, an objective assessment of social policies and programs, and continuous feedback for the design of social safety net programs in Colombia.