Social Protection and Economic Resilience Project

The development objective of the Social Protection for Economic Resilience Project for Mozambique is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the social protection system. The project comprises of four components. The first component, strengthening core operational and administrative capacity will support activities to enhance the sectoral capacity for policy design and implementation aiming to exploit the synergies across programs and with other sectors. It consists of following sub-components: (i) social protection policy planning, analysis, and coordination at Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Protection (MGCAS); (ii) improving performance of national social protection institute (INAS) operations; and (iii) strengthening implementation capacity at the local level. The second component, improving effectiveness and efficiency of social protection programs will finance activities to enhance key social protection programs to both increase their effectiveness on covering the target population and their efficiency in their allocation of resources. It consists of following sub-components: (i) improving targeting and coverage of social protection for families with children; and (ii) expanding economic inclusion opportunities for social protection beneficiaries. The third component, shock-responsive social protection aims to strengthen the capacity of the social protection system to timely respond to emergencies through improved financing mechanisms to support social assistance interventions to protect the human capital and productive capacity among the target population. The fourth component, contingent emergency response component (CERC) will allow for rapid reallocation of project proceeds in the event of a natural or man-made disaster or crisis that has caused or is likely to imminently cause a major adverse economic and or social impact.