Urban Productive Safety Net Project (UPSNP)

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The objective of the Urban Productive Safety Net Project is to support the Government of Ethiopia to improve income of targeted poor households and establish urban safety net mechanisms. There are three components to the project, the first component being safety net support. This component will support the delivery of a predictable, timely, and productive safety net through conditional and unconditional safety net transfers. The project will ensure that various safety net principles such as primacy, adequacy, and predictability of transfer are respected. The second component is the livelihood services. This component will support interventions that will facilitate graduation from the program and promote moving out of poverty. The target groups for these interventions are individuals in households receiving conditional transfers who desire more and higher-paid work. One individual per household can receive this support which will result in a total of 98,000 individuals eligible for this component. The individual will be selected by the household. The support will be implemented by the One Stop Center Directorate (OSCD) in the Urban Food Security and Job Creation Agency (UFS&JCA) which established One Stop Centers in woredas/kebeles. Some of the functions will be performed in collaboration with MoLSA. Finally, the third component is the institutional strengthening and project management. This component will support the development and strengthening of project systems for targeting, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and MIS, payments, and citizens’ engagement (CE). It will also finance capacity building (human resource, training, administrative, and physical capacity) and strengthening program management (coordination, financial management (FM), procurement, and safeguards).

FY17 - Social Protection

World Bank Group

Project

Commercial, Government