Comoros Social Safety Net Project

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The development objective of the Comoros Social Safety Net Project for Comoros is to increase poor communities’ access to safety net and nutrition services. The project is made up of the following three components: (1) establishing a productive and disaster responsive safety net, (2) improving the nutrition of young children and mothers from poor communities, and (3) Strengthening safety net management, coordination, and monitoring evaluation. Component 1 supports the implementation of two key elements of an effective safety net. It will (i) build the institutional and operational foundations for a longer-term safety net for the poorest households in selected communities through productive cash-for-work activities over a three-year period after which the households will continue to enjoy the benefits of the productive activities and (ii) make available an immediate short-term safety net for disaster affected households and communities. Component 2 provides preventive nutrition services in the same poor communities to help households to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty. The centerpiece of the community nutrition program is the delivery and use of a minimum package of preventive nutritional and reproductive health services focused on young children and women. Component 3 aims to support the development of key elements of a safety net system. It will support the establishment of an effective management information system (MIS) including a beneficiary registry based on geographical and community targeting that will be a repository of accurate data on beneficiaries and program implementation at all times.