Rapid Social Response Program (RSR)

Angola - Systemic Support to Social
Protection in Angola

Funding
Amount

Timeline

Project ID

Contributes to strengthening the social
protection system by enhancing the
Government’s capacity to design and
implement social protection programs,
strengthening coordination and institutional
linkages among the multiple government
institutions, and designing a graduation
model.

Benin - Building a Common National
Targeting and Registry System for
Safety Net and Health Interventions
in Benin

Supports the Government of Benin in developing
a national beneficiary targeting and registry
system that can be used across multiple social 
protection and health programs.

275,000

Burkina Faso - Strengthening Safety Net
Response to Crises

Supports the development and implementation
of a cash-transfer program and a feasibility study
of a public works program to support the poor
and vulnerable.

Associated IDA project

500,000

Burundi - Supporting Evolution toward a
Coordinated Social Protection System

Assists a gradual move from fragmented social
protection programs to a coordinated system
through feasibility assessments, support to
program implementation and south-south
learning.

400,000

Cameroon - Strengthening Safety Net
Response to Crises

Supported an inventory and analysis of the
country’s social safety nets, and piloted a
cash-transfer program.

Associated IDA project | Social Safety Nets Study

Cameroon - Building Productive Safety Nets  

Supports the development of a productive social
protection system in Cameroon including
strengthening the design of safety net programs
and including approaches to linking program
beneficiaries to the labor market and to productive
activities.

Comoros - Strengthening Social Protection
in Comoros

Supports the Government in improving social
protection policy coordination and safety net
program implementation.

Congo - CG Rep. LISUNGI Safety Nets
Project

Supports building blocks of a consolidated
national safety nets system and an impact
evaluation of the LISUNGI cash transfer pilot
program.

Review of Social Safety Nets and
Potential for Scaling Up Cash Transfers -
DFID TF

Cote d' Ivoire - CI- Assessing the Impact
of Crises on Human Capital and Lay the
Foundations for an Effective Social Safety
Net System

Provided technical assistance to investigating
the aggregate and distributional impact of recent
crises on the country´s human capital, and made
specific policy recommendations to better respond
to future crises.

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - 
Support to Social Protection System

Strengthens the framework for Social Protection
and the establishment of a national SP system
though capacity building of SP actors and mapping
of SP and Labor interventions.

Associated IDA project

Ghana - Building a National Targeting
System

Building on a previous support from RSR, this grant
supports the Government of Ghana in establishing
a national Common Targeting System to scale up
Ghana’s main safety net program LEAP and the
National Health Insurance Scheme.

Associated IDA project

Ghana - Support to a Common Targeting
System in Ghana

Guinea - Guinea Social Protection Strategy

Provided technical assistance, including a feasibility
study and capacity building to help create a safety
net system that can respond effectively to crises.

Associated IDA project

Guinea - Support to Social Protection
Strategy and Systems

Supports the government’s request to elaborate
a national social protection policy and strategy
document.

Guinea Bissau - Social Safety Net Systems
Support

Supports the Government to lay the foundations
of a social protection system capable of effectively
responding to current crises and future shocks.

Kenya - Additional Financing for Cash
Transfers for Orphans and Vulnerable
Children

Helps the Government enhance the single registry
for social protection, develop common program
targeting mechanisms, and design program
graduation mechanisms.

Project Brief (Archive)

Kenya - Support to the Government of Kenya
for Social Protection Programming

Supported the government of Kenya in their effort
to bring about a systemic change of the social
protection system, and deliver more tangible and 
sustainable results for vulnerable people.

Kenya - Social Protection Interventions -
Kenya – DFID

Supported the Government in strengthening its
response to the recent crisis through increasing
the efficiency and effectiveness of ongoing social
protection Interventions.

Associated IDA project | Project Brief (Archive)

Kenya - Kenya Youth Empowerment Project

Supported the IDA Youth Empowerment Project
in its efforts to increase access to youth-targeted
temporary employment programs and to improve
youth employability.

Lesotho - Lesotho RSR - TA for SP Systems

Supports the government in developing a social
protection strategy, and laying some of the
fundamental building blocks of a social protection
system, such as targeting, beneficiary registry and
coordination among programs.

Lesotho - LS-Social Safety Net Review

Improved the existing safety net to better protect
the poor and vulnerable under crisis. The study
analyzed the efficiency of current social safety net
programs in reaching out to the most vulnerable,
and developed policy reform options and guidance.

Liberia - LR: Youth, Employment, Skills Project

Funded a Social Protection Diagnostic Report.
The report was a critical first step in the
development of a coordinated and comprehensive
social protection strategy, which forms an
integrated part of the human development pillar
of the country's poverty reduction strategy.

Policy Note | A Diagnostic of Social Protection in Liberia

Liberia - Enhancing Economic and Social
Resilience among Liberia’s “Lost Generation”
of Youth

Provided an analysis and technical assistance
to the government on how to prioritize and
sequence employment programs targeting
vulnerable youth.

Associated IDA-project

Liberia - Developing National Social Protection
Delivery Systems

It supports the Government to establish key building blocks for a basic national safety system and strengthen coordination and administrative processes

Madagascar - Developing Madagascar's Safety
Net

Helps to advance the social protection policy
dialogue and developing innovative safety net
approaches to address the needs of the
poorest population.

Mauritania - Mauritania Social Protection TA

Helps the government improve targeting, prepare
a single registry for safety nets programs and
develop a feasibility assessment for a national 
cash transfer.

Mozambique - MZ-Preparation and Supervision
of the Pilot Public Works Program

Supported the development of labor-intensive
public works in 10 arid and semi-arid rural and
two urban areas to address the country-specific
dynamics of poverty and improve food insecurity.
RSR helped to set the direction of the new
national public works program by developing
and testing criteria for selecting beneficiaries,
determining the level of transfers and ascertaining
the types of eligible public works.

Associated IDA-project

Mozambique - Building Gender-Sensitive
SPL Systems

Supports and expands the emerging social
protection system by piloting a gender-sensitive,
inclusive safety nets mechanism that provides
temporary income support to extremely poor
individuals, mainly women, while delivering social
and community services to vulnerable groups in
underserved rural and urban areas.

Nigeria - Social Safety Nets Development
Dialogue and Policy Development

Provided technical assistance to improve the
design of the IDA-supported Social Safety Net
program.

Associated IDA-project

Nigeria - Developing National Social
Protection Platform

Supports the development of a comprehensive
national platform for an effective safety
nets program, including a common targeting
system, harmonized eligibility criteria, guidelines
for payment system, and a monitoring and
evaluation system.

Regional - Support to Coherent Pension Policy
and Improved Pension Delivery in Africa

Provides policymakers with the information and
international experience required to formulate
more equitable old age income security policies
as well as with tools to allow program
administrators to improve delivery of pensions.

Regional - Building and Sharing Knowledge
to Support Identification Systems in Africa

Aims to produce and share public goods and
knowledge that will help countries in Africa in
their efforts to build robust identification and
birth registration systems that leads to the
increase of the share of the population that
possess robust legal identity.

Rwanda - SPL Systems in Rwanda

Supports the Government of Rwanda to improve
effectiveness of its social protection system by
moving from a focus on policy formulation to the 
design and implementation of key service delivery
systems.

Rwanda - Technical Assistance and
Capacity Building to the Vision 2020
Umurenge Program (VUP)

Provided technical assistance to improve existing
social protection programs' ability to protect
vulnerable households in times of crises, and
boosts the programs' capacity to scale-up
interventions and absorb more funds when 
the need arises.

Associated IDA project

Sao Tome e Principe - Building Blocks for
the SP System

Creates the basic blocks for a social protection
system by enhancing the government's
understanding of vulnerability and risk vis-à-vis 
the existing supply of safety net interventions,
and developing key operational tools to reach
the poorest with selected safety net programs.

Senegal - Senegal SP - Safety Net Assessment

Supports the development of a comprehensive
and efficient social protection system including
a unified set of design parameters such as
targeting mechanisms, a registry system,
payment methods, and a management information
system.

Associated IDA project

Senegal - Senegal Safety Net Operation

Supports the design of a responsive safety net
system in connection to the government's launch
of the Food Security Program, the Programme
de Bourse de Securité Alimentaire.

Associated IDA project

Senegal - Developing National Social
Protection Delivery  Systems

Aims to carry out an assessment of public work
programs and develop a time bound Act Plan
to design, implement new programs, and
strengthen the SPL system and coordination
through active engagement of government
institutions and other stakeholders.

Sierra Leone - Developing Sierra Leone's
Social Protection System through Common
Targeting Mechanisms

Supports the establishment of a common targeting
system - a critical step in the consolidation of the
country’s social programs into a robust social
protection system.

Sierra Leone - SL-Social Safety Net Support
(RSR)

Provided a diagnostics of sources of poverty and
vulnerability and made recommendations to
improve the design, effectiveness, and
sustainability of the major safety net interventions,
with a view to move from an ad hoc emergency
focus to a longer-term programmatic focus on
national systems. 

Support for Social Protection Design and
Implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa -
DFID

Supported the development of cash transfers
programs. Depending on the country situation
areas for support included: the design for
scaling up, specifics of targeting, design of
enrollment and identification of beneficiaries,
payment systems, control and accountability
mechanisms, monitoring system and management
information systems. 

Sudan - Strengthening Safety Net
Programs in Sudan

Strengthens the effectiveness and responsiveness
of social protection interventions by improving
the implementation and coordination of the
Ministry of Welfare and Social Security’s Social
Support Program, builds the foundations for a
common targeting system, and develops Cash
for Work for poor and conflict affected regions.

Tanzania - Tanzania Second Social Action
Fund

Worked to improve household practices and
engender sustainability of livelihoods of the
current Community-Based Conditional Cash
Transfer beneficiaries. Following some
implementation issues, part of the grant was
cancelled.

Tanzania - TZ-Systems Based Approach
for the PSSN

Develops a strategy for using information and
communication technology (ICT) for expanded
outreach and greater impact as well as enhancing
key operational tools including the Management
Information System (MIS), the Single Registry of
Beneficiaries, and the formal payment system.

Togo - TG-Community Dev. Project ERL
(FY08)

Financed a rigorous impact evaluation of the new
public works project and provided technical
assistance to the Government in implementing 
and monitoring the national social protection
strategy.

Associated IDA project

Togo - Togo towards a National Social
Protection Policy and Strategy

Helped the country move towards an integrated
national system for social protection by providing
technical assistance to the development of a
cash transfer program and improving the design
of existing programs.

Associated IDA project

Uganda - Uganda Social Protection Sector
Review

Supports the development of a social protection
system through an analysis of poverty, risk and
vulnerability as well as a detailed analysis of
existing social safety programs.

Youth Employment (DFID TF)

Identified and analyzed programs that improve
employability and earnings among youth and
reduce their vulnerability and risky behavior—
knowledge that improves the design of
labor-market interventions.

Zambia - Support for Development
of MIS and Single Registry of
Beneficiaries/Policy Dialogue on
National Social Protection

Supports the Government in strengthening its
social protection system by developing a
policy framework and building management
information systems and a single registry to
allow robust identification of beneficiaries.

Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe Productive Safety
Net - Pilot Public Works Program/Zimbabwe
Social Protection Dialogue

Helped the Government of Zimbabwe to improve
its national public works program to bolster the
resilience of vulnerable families and communities.

Zimbabwe - Technical Assistance to Support
the Safety Net System in Zimbabwe

Assists the government in the development of a
social protection strategy and creation of an
harmonized targeting system and beneficiary
registry for the main social safety net programs
in the country.

AFR Cash Transfers and Conditional Cash
Transfers/Community of Practitioners 

Africa Cash Transfers and Conditional
Cash Transfers Community of Practice
(CoP) (2nd phase)

Supports participating countries in their process
of launching or scaling-up unconditional and
conditional cash transfers programs as a core
pillar in the consolidation of Social Protection
and Labor Systems.

Public Works in Fragile Countries:
The Experience of a Cash for Work
Program in Togo & Liberia

This activity built on the experience of the
Liberia Cash for Work Project and assisted
Togo's government in identifying key issues
and success factors for a new public works
intervention.

Informal Safety Nets in Eastern and
Southern Africa - DFID TF 

Supported the preparation of three case
studies; in Rwanda, Zimbabwe and Cote d' Ivoire,
to elucidate the interplay between formal and
informal safety nets.

AFR Community of Practice on Cash
Transfer for Francophone Countries in
the Region

It broadens and deepens the results of the
Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa Community
of Practice on Cash transfers programs
in member countries. 

Benin and Malawi - Enhancing Institutional
Capacity for Nutrition Security Programs

Worked to enhance the two countries' ability to
respond to - and mitigate - the nutritional impact
of economic and climate-related shocks.

Ethiopia - Ethiopia Nutrition (FY08)

Provided technical support to the development
and implementation of an early warning system
for malnutrition. The project complements the
IDA-supported Nutrition Project.

Associated IDA-project

Gambia - Gambia Rapid Response Nutrition
Security Improvement Project

Lesotho - Lesotho Education, Employability
and Economic Growth

Madagascar - MG-Assessing Negative
Impacts of the Political Crisis and
Protecting Access to Essential HNP
Services

Provided technical assistance to ensure
continuous and effective health and
nutrition service delivery in stable times
and when crises hit.

Associated IDA-project

Madagascar - Primary Education
in Times of Crisis

Supported a diagnosis of the effects of economic
and political crises on children and devised
appropriate mechanisms to protect vulnerable
children's access to basic education.

Associated IDA-project

Malawi - Protecting Early Childhood
Development in Malawi - Rapid Social
Response (RSR)

Supported the government in the design,
implementation, and evaluation of strategies
to increase access to - and the quality of -
9,000 community-based child care centers
across the country.

Mali - Piloting Effective Early Childhood
Development Services in Mali

Assisted in the government's crises response
by developing cost-effective early childhood
development services for vulnerable children
in rural areas.

Associated IDA-project

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of
Congo – Operations and Capacity
Development  for Nutrition 

Developed the capacity to implement nutrition
interventions at scale. 

Myanmar - Myanmar Social Protection
Policy Reform 

Used the Social Protection Assessment of Results
and Country Systems (SPARCS) framework to
identify strategic direction and appropriate 
instruments to build resilience and promote equity
and opportunity. The grant also focused on building
the capacity of government to develop SPL policies, 
design appropriate programs and build an effective
system for delivery.

Cambodia - Cambodia Technical Assistance
for Social Protection Systems

Puts in place elements of a social protection
system through technical assistance for the
implementation of a cash transfer program.
These elements can then be scaled up to help
develop a comprehensive social protection
system. 

EAP Climate Responsive Social Prot TA

Strengthens the capacity of governments
across the region to adapt social protection
programs and systems to mitigate disaster
risks ex ante, improve coping strategies,
and better respond to natural disasters and 
extreme climate conditions.

Mongolia - Building a More Efficient SP
System in Mongolia

Improves the efficiency and effectiveness of the
country’s social assistance system by
recommending strategies to consolidate the
country’s fragmented social assistance system
and by building an integrated IT system that can 
serve as an information platform to manage all
categorical and proxy-means tested social
assistance programs in the country.

MN-Support to Social Welfare Reform

Papua New Guinea - Urban Youth
Employment Project

Timor Leste - Strengthening Social Safety Nets
Institutions

Timor-Leste - Timor Leste Social Protection
Administration Project/Timor-Leste:
Social Protection Administration TA

Supported the Ministry of Social Solidarity in
building a standardized information management
system that integrates beneficiary information
across different database systems and identifies
beneficiaries  uniquely and strengthening the
government’s capacity to improve the delivery
of cash transfer programs.

Vietnam - Vietnam Programmatic Social
Protection AAA

It supports the government in strengthening the
social protection system through the consolidation
of overlapping programs and the modernization
of the management and delivery systems, in
addition to building the capacity of government
to develop more effective social assistance and
social insurance systems.

Albania - Social Protection TA

Armenia - Better Targeted Nutrition-Sensitive
Social Safety Nets 

Aims to increase the number of Armenian poor
that receive the Family Benefit Program through
better targeting, and to increase contribution of
social safety nets in addressing malnutrition among
poor households.

Health & Social Protection Project

Kyrgyz Republic - A Roadmap for Improving
Social Safety Net Administration and System
Building

Supports the efforts of the Ministry of Social
Development to design and implement a roadmap
for social protection. The grant catalyzes the
switch from isolated social assistance interventions 
towards a system approach by providing critical
analytical inputs and help stakeholders to make 
informed choices. 

Kyrgyz Republic - Enhancement of the TSA to
Improve Coverage and Protection of the
Poor

Tajikistan - Tajikistan Government-Implemented
Grant for Targeting and Payment of Social
Assistance/Social Safety Net Strengthening
Project

Uzbekistan - Integrated Single Window Office
for the Social Assistance and Employment
Services

Develops a concept of the Integrated Single
Window Office (ISWO) for provision of services
to population by the Ministry of Labor and Social
Protection (MLSP). Design a detailed blueprint
for implementation and rollout of a national
reform of administration of the social assistance
and employment programs, including high level
design of the Management Information System
(MIS) and a registry of beneficiaries. 

Bolivia - BO Multidimensional Poverty
Phase IV

Fills information gaps about dimensions of access
to social services among women and indigenous
groups in Bolivia with the end goal of promoting
a more equitable access to social services, social
protection, and economic opportunities.

Haiti - Moving Toward a Social Protection
System in Haiti

Helps the Government improve its capacity to
coordinate and target social initiatives and enhance
the efficiency and effectiveness of public spending
in the area of social protection.

Social Protection

Nicaragua - Nicaragua Social Protection

Regional Statistical Work in OECS

Strengthened the OECS secretariat’s capacity
to support and guide national crisis responses
on social protection.

OECS Country Brief

Saint Lucia - Rapid Social Response Trust
Fund: Transforming Social Protection in
St. Lucia

Supports the implementation a Social Safety Net
Reform through: (i) analyzing and improving key
operational elements of St. Lucia’s flagship
Public Assistance Program; (ii) harmonizing the
architecture of social assistance programs ; and 
(iii) improving the Ministry of Social 
Transformation’s capacity to implement the
Social Safety Net Reform.

Regional - Rapid Social Response Trust Fund:
Strengthening SPL Systems in Low Capacity
LAC countries (Bolivia, Grenada, Honduras,
Nicaragua)

Building Evidence on Program's Performance
Builds Evidence on Program's Performance to
Strengthen SPL systems in low capacity LAC
countries.

Mexico - Strengthening of Social Protection
System 

Supports the Government to strengthen existing
social protection system tools aimed at improving
the wellbeing of the extreme poor, in particular
their nutritional status and food security.

Djibouti - Employment for the Poor Project

Equity and Inclusion

Yemen - Social Welfare Fund Institutional Support
Project

The grant supported a short household survey to
monitor the economic and social impact of instability,
including food insecurity. The pilot project was 
cancelled due to prevailing security concerns in
Yemen.

Afghanistan – Afghanistan Pension
Administration and Safety Net Project 

Aimed to strengthen the institutional capacity
to monitor and evaluate government programs
and mechanisms delivering benefits

Afghanistan - Options to Strengthen the
Safety Net

Explores options for increasing the social protection
coverage of the poor by assessing the potential
and feasibility of scalable short term employment
generation programs.

Bangladesh - Employment Generation
Program for the Poorest

Bangladesh - Piloting Cash Transfers for
Human Development through Local
Government

Bangladesh: Assessment of Identification
Systems for Social Protection

Aims to strengthen the SPL system by enhancing
Government’s capacity to improve SPL ID
systems, develop options for how ID systems to
be more effective and efficient, set up an Action
Plan to operationalize most preferred policy
options, strengthen coordination among the
government institutions involved in SPL programs,
and understand the operational foundations of
public food distribution systems (PDSs). 

Bangladesh: Supporting Nutrition-Sensitive
Safety Nets through Strengthened Local
Government Administration

Supports streamlined social protection services
at the local level, with a focus on implementation
of nutrition-sensitive safety nets in Bangladesh
by strengthening local level institutional
arrangements for safety nets administration,
developing innovative tools for promotion of
nutrition amongst the poorest through income
support and beneficiary engagement.

Bhutan - Supporting the Development of a
Social Protection Strategy

Supports the development of an evidence-based
social protection strategy.

India: Social Dimensions of Urbanization

Provided support to stream-lining and improving
the effectiveness of urban safety nets in New Delhi
and improve the monitoring and delivery of benefit
programs using integrated IT platforms, databases
and smart cards.

India - Bihar Integrated Social Protection
Strengthening Project

Evaluates the impact of providing financial
education program focused on long-term
savings for low income households in Bihar,
India and their take up rate of a New Government
Pension Scheme (NPS Lite) designed for
individuals working in the informal sector who
are not covered by any formal old age social
security program.

India: Improving Design and Delivery of
Social Safety Net Program in Urban locations

Supports the improvements in the design and
delivery of social safety net programs in urban
locations.

Maldives - Building capacity and systems for
targeting the poor in the Maldives

Nepal - Strengthening Safety Nets in Nepal:
Piloting Targeted Conditional Cash Transfers

Nepal - Safety Net System Building (SNSB) TA

Supports the Government in strengthening basic
architecture of its administrative systems, with
emphasis on the payment system, the
management information system, and the
ministry’s internal institutional arrangement for SP
policy coordination and service delivery.

Pakistan: Social Safety Net Project

Sri Lanka - Competitive Skills for a Middle
Income Country

Examined the impact of the economic crisis
on vulnerable groups, in the formal and
informal labor markets, and supported an analysis
of critical policy issues on skills development,
employment creation and economic growth.

Sri Lanka - Strengthening Samurdhi
Targeting Systems

Supported an assessment of the beneficiaries
of the largest social safety net program with
a view to make the program more efficient
in helping the poor to become more productive.

India: Institutional Arrangements for
Nutrition in India

An analysis of existing institutional arrangements
for organizing, coordinating, and delivering
nutrition services in India and recommendations
for how the service delivery can be strengthened.

Maldives - Assessment of National Health
Insurance

Strengthened the capacity of National Social
Protection Agency to improve the design of
the Madhana, the country's nascent social health
insurance system and helped to build a robust
monitoring and evaluation system that enhances
the system's efficiency and effectiveness.

Pakistan - Protecting Pakistans Poor
Against Health Shocks in Disasters

Provided technical assistance to the development
of a diagnostics and a review of the health
sector's policy options to increase the population's
resilience to health shocks caused by natural
disasters.

ASPIRE - Atlas of Social Protection
Indicators of Resilience and Equity

Supports countries in building effective SPL
systems by providing clear, cross country
guidance for assessing and monitoring SPL systems’ performance. The grant supports
Social Protection Assessment of Results and
Country Systems (SPARCS) in developing and
applying common instruments to assess the
structure of SPL systems and guide their
development; and Atlas of Social Protection -
Indicators of Resilience and Equity (ASPIRE) 
in collecting, harmonizing and sharing 
comparable indicators of program performance
based on household and administrative data.

Multicountry-Strengthening Public Food
Distribution Systems as Nutrition-Sensitive
Safety Nets

It pursues three core and interconnected
development objectives that would help advance
the social protection systems-building agenda
in terms of analytics, operations and
knowledge-sharing.