Social Safety Net Project

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The development objective of the Social Safety Net Project for Burkina Faso is to provide income support to poor households and to lay the foundations for a basic safety net system in Burkina Faso. The project has three components. The first component, cash transfers and awareness program for poor households will support the development and implementation of a cash transfer program to serve as one of the cornerstones of Burkina Faso's safety net. The component will also include accompanying measures in participating communities to assist households to improve practices related to human development and in particular nutrition. The second component, laying the foundations for a basic national safety net system will assist the country in designing and developing operational building blocks that can be used for coordinating safety net programs and increasing their effectiveness through a systemic approach. This component will first support the development of the building blocks for the cash transfer program, as the core pillar of Burkina Faso's safety net. Secondly, the targeting system and associated registry will be developed as a key foundation of the national safety net system. Thirdly, this component will include activities to strengthen the institutions needed for coordinating, implementing, and monitoring safety net programs. Finally, this component will support monitoring, process evaluation, and a rigorous impact evaluation of the cash transfer program and its accompanying measures to learn whether the promising impacts of the pilots transfer hold up in a government-run scaled-up versions of these interventions in a low-income setting such as Burkina Faso. The third component, project management will support the management of the overall project. It will finance project management and coordination activities related to the first two project components.