Safety Net Systems for the Poorest

The objective of the Safety Net Systems for the Poorest Project for Bangladesh is to improve the equity, efficiency and transparency of major social safety net programs to benefit the poorest households. The proposed project includes three components: (i) support to five safety net programs by financing a portion of program costs in line with progress against a set of Disbursement Linked Indicators; (ii) strengthening of Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief (MoDMR) program administration and transparency; and (iii) development of the Bangladesh Poverty Database. The first component will reimburse the Government of Bangladesh for results, while the other two components will be seen as a financing instrument for the inputs needed to achieve the results under first component. Second and third components will finance all inputs such as personnel, design of IT systems as well as hardware, monitoring systems, vehicles and other equipment, consultants, and incremental operating costs.