Support to reform and innovation in Vietnam’s social assistance program | Division for Inclusive Social Development (DISD)

The Vietnam Social Assistance System Strengthening Project was officially launched on 7 Aug, with the goal of developing and piloting innovations in management and service delivery in four provinces in Vietnam as a first step towards nationwide implementation.

The project will consolidate existing database into a national database of poor and near-poor households and social assistance beneficiaries, laying the foundation for program consolidation, and improving the effectiveness of public spending on social assistance.

In the four pilot project provinces, the project will test the strengthened, consolidated cash transfer program by putting existing and new cash transfers for poor households with children and pregnant women into a “family package” which can guarantee income security for poor households in the long term.

The Project supports the Government’s overall objective of poverty reduction through emphasizing the role of social assistance system for enabling poor children to reach their full potential and break the intergenerational transmission of poverty.

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