Design and Piloting of an Integrated Social Protection Model for the New Poor
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Design and Piloting of an Integrated Social Protection Model for the New Poor
August 23, 2024
In 2023, the Government of Luxembourg, through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s Funding Windows on Poverty and Inequality, rolled out a 12-month cash-plus social protection pilot project, ‘Design and Piloting of an Integrated Social Protection Model for the New Poor’. The pilot project integrated cash transfers with longer-term livelihood support in Sri Lanka. The Pilot was an economic model designed to target women specifically through a series of cohesive interventions to support a farm-to-market model of empowerment, implemented in the districts of Vavuniya, Trincomalee, Kurunegala, Polonnaruwa, and Anuradhapura. The target was to support 1,000 beneficiaries, focusing mainly on women and vulnerable groups. These groups included women-headed households, families with elderly members, Persons with Disabilities (PwDs), and patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) whose livelihoods were severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic crisis of 2022.