Social Support for Resilient Livelihoods Project Second Additional Financing

active

Prospective

The proposed five-year project will support the second Malawi National Social Support Program (MNSSP II) as the overarching and formal platform in social protection, led by Government with coordinated donor engagement. In this context, the project will contribute to the MNSSP II in two ways, as reflected in the PDO. The first part of the PDO highlights the importance of improving resilience, which is understood as the ability of households to improve initial levels of welfare in the face of chronic stress and to maintain welfare in the face of shocks. In this regard the project emphasizes safety net programs which boost economic and social inclusion. The resilience of these programs will be further strengthened by the delivery systems and capacity investments under the project. The second part of the PDO highlights the need to more strongly support the effectiveness of a national system for social safety nets under the MNSSP II framework. The project places emphasis on this through efforts to support delivery systems (for social registry, e-payments and citizens engagement), as well as efforts to strengthen overall capacity and harmonization in the sector. The project has three major components: (i) Improving Social and Economic Inclusion. This component focuses on the consolidation of an appropriate package of support for beneficiary households with a mix of program interventions, including social cash transfers, livelihoods support, and enhanced public works, as well as an option for scalable financing in time of crisis; (ii) Strengthening Harmonized Delivery Systems which will focus on strengthening social registry and information management, introduction of e-payments and citizens engagement; and (iii) Capacity Building and Institutional Development Support to support the enactment of the MNSSP II, the setting up of the necessary institutional structure for its implementation and the general management and evaluation of the project.

FY17 - Social Protection

World Bank Group

Project

Commercial, Government