INTEGRATED SOCIAL PROTECTION AND PROMOTION PROJECT

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The development objective for the Integrated Social Protection and Promotion Project for the Dominican Republic is to improve access of the borrower's poor citizens to an integrated package of social protection and promotion opportunities, including, in particular, human capital, enhanced employability, and housing improvements in selected provinces. The project has three components. (1) Integrated area-based social protection and pro-poor service delivery component aims to improve access of poor citizens of selected provinces to an integrated package of social protection and promotion opportunities by bridging conditional cash transfer (CCT) coverage gaps for eligible extremely poor households, increasing access of extremely poor CCT users to housing improvements, and increasing access of extremely and moderately poor CCT users to productive opportunities. (2) Strengthening of the Progresando con Solidaridad (PROSOLI) CCT Program and support to targeted households component will strengthen operational processes and its capacity to effectively link targeted households to newly available opportunities and services in selected provinces. (3) Enhancing equity and results orientation component will complement targeted interventions at the territorial level with institutional strengthening at the national policy level to sustain progress in building blocks of the social protection system. The project directly benefits a significant share of current and new PROSOLI users, who will be receiving cash transfers aiming to increase household consumption and human capital investments and to improve beneficiaries' health, nutrition, education, and productivity.