| Project Detail |
The objective of the Emergency Food Security and Social Protection Project for Madagascar is to strengthen the recipient s immediate capacity to respond effectively to the food security and locust crises, by: (i) increasing agricultural production capacity in project areas, while enabling extremely poor households, in the project areas, to access cash transfers and cash for work activities; and (ii) improving the recipient s capacity to respond promptly and efficiently to an eligible crisis or emergency. There are four components to the project, the first component being restoring and maintaining essential agricultural productive capacity. The second component is the providing a social safety net for the poor. This component provides a basic safety net to the poorest families in selected project areas through cash-for-work activities or conditional cash transfers. The cash-for-work activities, selected for their potential synergies with the productive activities under component A, will provide selected extremely poor households with temporary employment of up to 45 days per year; households that cannot provide labor (such as female-headed households) will receive temporary cash transfers. The third component is the contingency emergency fund. This component establishes a disaster recovery contingency fund that could be triggered in the event of a natural disaster through formal declaration of a national or regional state of emergency, or upon a formal request from the Government of Madagascar in the wake of a disaster. Finally, the fourth component is the project management. |
