Social Safety Net Project

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The development objective of the Social Safety Net Project for Madagascar is to support the government in increasing the access of extremely poor households to safety net services and in laying the foundations for a social protection system. The project comprises of three components. The first component, building a safety net for the poor in selected rural areas objective is to build an effective safety net for extremely poor households in selected areas. It consists of following three sub-components: (i) establishing a productive safety net program; (ii) expanding the human development cash transfers pilot; and (iii) early recovery response to natural disasters. The second component, strengthening safety net administration, monitoring, and, social accountability will provide the financing to strengthen the safety net administration. The third component, building the institutional capacity for the coordination, monitoring, and evaluation of the social protection system aims to strengthen the institutional capacity of the ministry of population, social protection, and promotion of women (MPSPPW) to manage the coordination, monitoring, and evaluation of the social protection system.