Social Support for Resilient Livelihoods Project

The development objectives of Social Support for Resilient Livelihoods Project are to improve resilience among the poor and vulnerable population and to strengthen the national platform for safety nets in Malawi. This project has four components. 1) The first component, Improving Social and Economic Inclusion, focuses on the consolidation of an appropriate package of support for beneficiary households with a mix of program interventions, including social cash transfers, livelihoods support, and enhanced public works, as well as an option for scalable financing in time of crisis. It includes following sub-components: (i) Enhanced Core Programs; and (ii) Financing Scalable Safety Nets. 2) The second component, Strengthening Harmonized Delivery Systems, aims to establish systems to promote harmonization within the social safety net sector and potentially link to other sectors to improve effectiveness of delivering interventions. It includes following sub-components: (i) Social Registry and Information Management; (ii) E-Payments; and (iii) Citizen Engagement. 3) The third component, Capacity Building and Institutional Strengthening Support, aims to provide capacity-building, learning, and operational support for the setting up of the institutional structure necessary for project implementation. It includes following sub-components: (i) Learning and Evaluation; (ii) Institutional Support; and (iii) : Enhancing Accountability and Transparency. 4) The fourth component, Contingent Emergency Response, aims to 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.