National Social Safety Nets Project

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The development objective of the National Social Safety Nets Project for Nigeria is to provide access to targeted transfers to poor and vulnerable households under an expanded national social safety nets system. It has comprises the following two components. The first component, establishing the foundation for a National Social Safety Net System is to strengthen and consolidate the building blocks of a safety net system at the national and state level that can deliver targeted support to poor households across Nigeria. This component will include two subcomponents. i) Project Management and Institutional Capacity will provide resources to support the Government’s decision to establish a coordinating office for SSNs in Nigeria. It will also include financing for capacity building, communications, citizen engagement (CE), and grievance redress/complaints-handling. ii) Developing Building Blocks of the Safety Net System will finance investments in the main building blocks of the national social safety nets system: (a) a robust targeting mechanism and a national registry of poor and vulnerable households; (b) payment systems; and (c) Monitor and evaluation and the Management Information System MIS. The second component, implementing a targeted cash transfer will finance safety net transfers to targeted poor and vulnerable households included in the NSR, delivering regular and reliable transfers in a way that is accessible to beneficiaries and with benefit levels that are consistent with project objectives.