Social Protection Emergency Response and Delivery Systems Project

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The project will achieve its development objectives on the basis of three components intended to: (i) mitigate the immediate emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and affecting the income of households, (ii) support the recovery stage by providing households with income generation opportunities until economic growth and labor demand accelerate again, and (iii) promote structural interventions to strengthen the social protection delivery systems to better support the intended population in a timely manner. Overall, the proposed project will support the Government to develop a social protection system with the capacity to more efficiently and effectively cope with future crises impacting the income of poor and vulnerable households. The project is being processed under paragraph 12 of Section III of the Bank Policy: Investment Project Financing, referring to projects in situations of urgent need of assistance or capacity constraints. The rationale for processing the project under the condensed procedures is the urgent need for assistance to support the Government's efforts to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic impacts in terms of incomes, employment, and welfare of its poor and vulnerable groups.