Cote d'Ivoire - Social Safety Nets System Strengthening Program : Additional Financing

Overview & Synopsis

The development objective of the Côte d'Ivoire Productive Social Safety Nets System Strengthening Program for Côte d'Ivoire is to increase access of poor and vulnerable households to safety nets programs and improve the performance of delivery systems. The additional financing responds to strong government demand to scale up, consolidate, and innovate the national safety net system in line with the National Development Plan, to translate sustained growth into shared prosperity, strengthen adaptive social protection in the face of climate shocks, deepen inclusion of women and youth, and move beneficiaries toward better jobs. The Bank will work on three areas. First, delivery systems and targeting will be reinforced by expanding and updating the Unique Social Registry (RSU), improving on-demand registration through local “guichets,” strengthening data quality and interoperability with partner systems, and scaling a social centers model that connects safety net households to Universal Health Coverage (CMU) and its non contributory scheme (RAM), while maintaining a robust payment platform and grievance redress mechanism. Second, access and sustainability of the productive cash transfer platform will be expanded by enrolling new household cohorts and delivering quarterly digital transfers with an enhanced economic inclusion package that includes life skills, savings groups, coaching for income generating activities, productive grants, and structured linkages to partner skills, agriculture, and jobs programs; the program will maintain a service standard of one frontline worker per 250 households, ensure women’s equitable participation as transfer recipients and trainees, and roll out a digital financial inclusion package to increase active use of savings and payment services. It will also introduce a dedicated, multisectoral package for out of school adolescents and young women that provides gender and life skills “youth clubs,” community sensitization on norms, and tailored economic support and referrals to education, health, nutrition, and protection services. Third, the program will consolidate a national shock response mechanism that triggers timely, rules based digital cash support to households affected by climate related hazards, with strengthened local and central capacities and clear operational protocols. Together these actions are intended to extend social protection coverage, improve system efficiency and data use, increase women’s economic participation and financial inclusion, build pathways to jobs, and enhance resilience to climate and other shocks, with results tracked through standardized monitoring and independent verification.