Tanzania - Third Productive Social Safety Net Project

Overview & Synopsis

The objective of the Third Productive Social Safety Net Project for Tanzania is to increase access to social protection and better jobs for targeted poor households and build sustainable, adaptive social protection delivery systems. There are three components to the project, the first being the promotion of resilience and economic inclusion through adaptive safety nets. This component will include two sub-components offering different forms of support tailored to the economic and vulnerability profiles of selected poor and vulnerable households. This component comprises two subcomponents: a productive cash transfer program and climate-smart, labor-intensive public works projects. The second component is building an adaptive social protection system. This component comprises two subcomponents: modernizing social protection delivery systems and Providing Institutional and technical support for the implementation of an adaptive social protection system. The third component is project management. This component will support implementation and project management. It will finance costs related to staffing, logistics, coordination, M&E, supervision, financial management, procurement, and implementation of safeguards activities, among other necessary expenditures.