Morocco COVID-19 Social Protection Emergency Response Project

The development objective of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Social Protection Emergency Response Project for Morocco is to mitigate the negative impacts of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis by providing emergency cash transfers and guaranteeing access to and strengthening cash transfer programs to support poor and vulnerable households. This project has four components. 1) The first component, Emergency Cash Transfer (ECTs) in response to Coronavirus (COVID-19), aims to support the expansion of the existing social assistance programs through the provision of ECT to the beneficiaries under the TADAMON program as well as the strengthening of the existing GRM system for the social assistance programs using an iterative beneficiary monitoring survey to develop the recommendations and an action plan for their implementation. 2) The second component, aims to support cash transfers to beneficiaries of the Tayssir program, aims to provide direct financing of cash transfers under Tayssir to contribute to mitigating the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis on vulnerable households and to ensure its continuity for families with school-age children. 3) The third component, Enhanced CT programs for resilience, aims to finance Tayssir, to strengthen the country’s cash transfer programs. 4) The fourth component, Contingency Emergency Response, aims to allow the Government of Morocco (GoM) to request the World Bank for a rapid allocation of the project funds to the CERC to respond promptly and effectively to an eligible emergency or crisis.