Mauritania Social Safety Net System

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The development objectives of the Social Safety Net System Project for Mauritania are to support the establishment of key building blocks of the national social safety net system and to provide targeted cash transfers to extreme poor households. The project comprises of three components. The first component, support to national social safety net system objective is to support the central government’s capacity for the establishment and coordination of the national social safety net system. It consists of following two sub-components: (i) implementation of the national social registry; and (ii) support to the implementation of the national social protection strategy. The second component, support to social transfer program objective is to support the design and implementation of the social transfer program. It consists of following three sub-components: (i) development of program tools and processes, monitoring and evaluation and operational costs; (ii) payment of transfers to beneficiaries; and (iii) promotion of investment in human capital and resilience. The third component, project management will support activities related to the management of the project.