Integrated Social Protection Development Program (Additional Financing)

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The ongoing program aims to strengthen and expand social protection system to alleviate poverty of poor women and their families through three outputs: (i) institutional capacity for social protection and climate resilience strengthened; (ii) access to primary and secondary education improved for children and adolescents of poor families; and (iii) access to health services and nutrition supplies enhanced for women, adolescent girls, and children of poor families. The additional financing of $330 million will expand the scope and coverage of the ISPDP, as part of the broader government program, mainly to enhance the ability of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), Pakistan's flagship social protection agency, to deliver its programs and services to the 'grassroots level through further integrated system, support access to education pathways for children and youth from poor families, increased access to health services and nutrition supplies for beneficiaries in disaster-prone areas by enhancing poverty targeting.