Strengthening Food Programs for Vulnerable Populations

The development objective of the Strengthening Food Programs for Vulnerable Populations Project for Argentina is to improve the effectiveness and traceability of food programs implemented by the Ministry of Social Development (MDS). The project comprises of three components. The first component, improve food programs managed by MDS aims to improve and strengthen the design, capacity, and quality of Argentina’s two main food assistance programs. The second component, decentralized feed the community program will support the decentralized implementation of the feed the community program (FCP) and finance cash transfers to pre‐paid credit cards of community kitchens to be used exclusively for food purchases. The third component, food benefit program (FBP) financing aims to improve the design and coverage of the FBP.