Tanzania Productive Social Safety Net

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The overall objective of the Productive Social Safety Net Project is to increase income and consumption and improve the ability to cope with shocks among targeted vulnerable population groups, while enhancing and protecting the human capital of their children. There are two components to the project. The first component of the project is consolidation of integrated social safety net interventions for extremely poor and food insecure households. This component will work in order to maximize the impact of a social safety net in Tanzania, different interventions will be coordinated to target the extreme poor and food insecure groups. The second component of the project is institutional strengthening. The objective of this component is to: 1) support the Government of United Republic of Tanzania (URT) in the process of institutionalizing the Productive Social Safety Net (PSSN) as part of a national social protection framework; 2) support Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF) to start the implementation of the PSSN under the current structure and gradually move towards permanent institutional arrangements; and 3) support program management and monitoring and evaluation of the PSSN.