Social Protection Project

The development objective of the Social Protection (SP) Project for Sri Lanka is to support Sri Lanka in providing better targeted income and livelihood opportunities to the poor and vulnerable and improving the responsiveness of the SP system. The project comprises of three components. The first component, cash transfers (CT) objective is to support Sri Lanka to provide targeted income support to poor and vulnerable households, through the provision of CT to Beneficiaries. The second component, pilot to enhance opportunities for poor and vulnerable households’ objective is to pilot economic inclusion approaches for the most vulnerable among a selected number of CT beneficiaries, thus bringing global experience to Sri Lanka. The third component, project management and strengthening the SP system objective is to ensure effective project implementation, while also strengthening the country’s SP system and its key delivery systems. It consists of following sub-components: (i) project management and strengthening the SP system; and (ii) project management for Ministry of Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment (MoWCASE).