Adaptive Social Protection for Increased Resilience Project

The objective of the Adaptive Social Protection for Increased Resilience Project for Haiti is to deliver cash transfers to targeted households and establish the foundations for an adaptive safety net system in Haiti to respond to shocks, including COVID-19. The project has four components. (1) Delivering an Adaptive Social Safety Net component will provide adaptive UCTs and complementary accompanying measures to around 18,000 households (or 90,000 individuals) living in distressed areas who are chronically poor and vulnerable to shocks. (2) Establishing the Foundations for an Adaptive Social Protection System component will develop the management and administrative capacity of the MAST to deliver social protection programs to poor and vulnerable households. (3) Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation component will support project management and coordination, including the establishment of a Project Implementation Unit (PIU) at the MAST responsible for project M&E, procurement, financial management (FM), safeguards, and citizen engagement. The PIU will be responsible to manage and oversee the standard agreement between the MAST and the WFP, as well as to manage, implement, and oversee all other expenditures under the project. (4) Contingent Emergency Response Component is designed as a mechanism for rapid response in the event of an eligible emergency, ensuring scalability of the safety net horizontally (adding beneficiaries of the cash transfer). This component would be activated upon request from the GoH, according to the provisions of the Project Operations Manual. It will also reflect lessons from the operational experience acquired in Haiti in responding to natural catastrophic events and shocks, including health emergencies. This component would not have any initial funding allocation, but in the event of an eligible emergency, uncommitted funds could be reallocated from other components in accordance with an Emergency Action Plan prepared by the GoH...