Program to Support Social Protection Reforms

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The development objective of this programmatic series is to support the adoption of policymeasures conducive to a reduction in extreme poverty among households in Honduras through the design andimplementation of policies to improve the financial sustainability and efficiency of redistributive social protection spending,with an emphasis on human capital formation for children and adolescents, consolidation of the basic social welfare serviceofferings in health and education as a complement to redistributive programs, and strengthening of governance ininformation management and coordination capacity in the social sector. The objective of this first operation is to contributeto the design and enactment of legal instruments to strengthen the policy framework and facilitate the implementation ofredistributive social protection policies that provide relief to households in conditions of extreme poverty.This operation was designed as a programmatic policy-based loan (PBP) and is the first of two individual operations