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Rapid Social Response Program (RSR)

The Rapid Social Response Program is a key instrument for implementing the World Bank’s 2023–28 Social Protection and Jobs Compass to achieve universal protection and to increase equity, resilience, and opportunities for all vulnerable households.

Building Adaptive Social Protection Systems to Promote Equity, Resilience, and Opportunity

The Rapid Social Response Program (RSR) multidonor program was established in 2009 to help the world’s poorest countries, in partnership with the World Bank, to build effective social protection systems.
Delivering Affordable, Quality Childcare in Bangladesh: Policy lessons

This note provides policy and program lessons on (1) Access and affordability; (2) Quality; and (3) Care at home based on a review of childcare and early childhood development models globally.
Enhancing SP Systems for Conflict-Sensitive Delivery in South Sudan

This living document showcases the Community Engagement and Capacity Building Plan prepared to support the implementation of the South Sudan Safety Net Project (SSSNP)
Guiding Social Protection Targeting through Satellite Data in São Tomé and Príncipe

This working paper develops High Resolution Satellite Imagery (HRSI) poverty maps to facilitate the targeting process of social safety net programs in São Tomé and Príncipe

The Rapid Social Response (RSR) Program, now the Rapid Social Response Adaptive and Dynamic Social Protection Program (RSR-ADSP), is a key instrument for implementing the World Bank’s Social Protection and Jobs Compass to achieve universal protection and to increase equity, resilience, and opportunities for all vulnerable households. The program works with clients in IDA countries to develop adaptive and resilient social protection systems that can quickly respond to evolving challenges and new vulnerabilities.

Since inception, the RSR and the RSR-ADSP have provided $141 million to fund 384 activities in 109 countries across all six World Bank regions. Moving in to Phase 3 (2023-30), the Program continues to focus on gender, COVID-19 responses, the global consequences of the war in Ukraine, climate change, green jobs, conflict, migration, and other critical areas.

The RSR-ADSP is Generously supported by Australia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, and the GHR Foundation.