Results Readiness in Social Protection and Labor Operations : Technical Guidance Notes for Social Safety Nets Task Teams
Social Safety Nets (SSN) are defined as non?contributory transfer programs targeted to the poor or those vulnerable to poverty and shocks. About half of World Bank social protection projects in the reviewed cohort are SSN. They are mostly non-emerg...
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/622381468331848700/Results-readiness-in-social-protection-and-labor-operations-technical-guidance-notes-for-social-safety-nets-task-teams http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27370 |
Summary: | Social Safety Nets (SSN) are defined as
non?contributory transfer programs targeted to the poor or
those vulnerable to poverty and shocks. About half of World
Bank social protection projects in the reviewed cohort are
SSN. They are mostly non-emergency investment operations
with a higher presence in Latin America and the Caribbean
and Africa regions. Projects aimed at strengthening
country's safety nets system, including their
targeting, administration and service quality, are the most
common type of SSN interventions (25 percent). These are
closely followed by conditional cash transfers (20 percent),
and health, nutrition and education projects (15 percent).
The remaining projects are a mixture of public works; food
crisis mitigation measures and other types of safety nets
(social inclusion, housing, and technical assistance). |
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