Rwanda Third Support to the Social Protection System (SSPS-3)

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This Third Support to Social Protection Systems (SSPS-3) operation of SDR 45.5 million ($70 million equivalent), the last in this programmatic series of three development policy operations (DPOs), consolidates the objective to 'support the efforts of the Government of Rwanda to enhance the effectiveness and expand the coverage of its social protection system.' The operation supports the second strategic theme of the CAS: to reduce social vulnerability and to ensure that the most vulnerable Rwandans also benefit from growth and help Rwanda make further progress in building a more stable society. The operation also provides critical support to the Government's second Economic Development and Poverty Strategy (EDPRS-2 2013-2018) and National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS-2 2013-2018). The Government has established social protection as a priority in its ambitious 5-year goal to 'accelerate poverty reduction to less than 30 percent of the population' and to 'reduce extreme poverty to 9 percent' by 2018. Rwanda is among global leaders in building an integrated social protection (SP) system in a low-income environment that is closely tied to national goals of poverty reduction. In the three years of DPO support, Rwanda has established the foundation of a social protection system that is now institutionally mature, central to poverty reduction approaches, and is reaching an increasing number of poor and vulnerable families. The SSPS series is instrumental to Rwanda's capacity to achieve continued gains in strengthening their national social protection system and to reducing poverty and extreme poverty. It provides foundational support for policy reforms to establish a robust, coordinated social protection system able to provide effective and efficient targeted transfers, productive temporary employment, financial services and community capacity building.

FY17 - Social Protection

World Bank Group

Project

Commercial, Government