Shock-Responsive Social Protection Project

While cash support is vital for immediate relief and consumption smoothing during a crisis, which in turn reduces the adoption of risky coping strategies—such as reducing food intake, selling assets, or borrowing—it is important during the post-crisis or recovery period to introduce programs that increase poor and vulnerable households’ resilience to future shocks. The graduation approach is an innovation in social protection that builds on social assistance and provides a productive asset, technical training, business development support, and coaching and mentoring to help diversify household sources of income. This type of program is also being supported by the follow-on project.