RSR List of Activities (LAC)

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

Strengthened the governments’ safety net
programs by helping to redesign the conditional
cash transfer program, and enhance targeting of
social safety nets interventions.

Associated IDA-project

Nicaragua - Nicaragua Social Protection

Provided technical assistance to the expansion of a
model program for family and community-based
social welfare and cash transfers.

Associated IDA-project

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.

Listening to LAC and Other Innovations
in Statistics

Regional:  RSR MDTF - Improving LAC
Country Responses to Protect the
Nutritional Status of the Poorest and
Most Vulnerable in Times of Crises

Supported the development of a toolkit that
offers policy makers and program administrators
in the LAC region cost effective tools. 

Toolkit on How to Protect and Promote the Nutrition of Mothers and Children

Haiti - Household Development Agent Pilot

Improves family health and nutrition practices
by enhancing the quality and coordination of
social services and introducing household
development agents.

Associated IDA project

Haiti Nutrition Security and Social Safety Nets

Improved the capacity and effectiveness of
nutrition-related safety net programs to
address acute and chronic malnutrition.

Associated IDA-project

Women and Girls in Haiti & Reconstruction:
Addressing and Preventing Gender based
Violence

A community based organization received support
from RSR to improve delivery of services to
survivors of gender based violence and to enhance
the growing public dialogue around the issue.

Blog: Gender-Based Violence - Is it the World Bank’s Business?

Honduras - Nutrition and Social Protection
Project

Helped to offset the negative effects of the global
food crisis on the most vulnerable children by
strengthening monitoring systems and providing
technical assistance to the expansion of the
nutritional services in the most affected areas
of the country.

Associated IDA-project

Education Resilience, Violence and Youth
Protection

Provided support to policy development and
strategic planning to protect children and youth
from violence made worse by crises.