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Five Million Tanzanians to Benefit from Improved Safety Nets

Over five million Tanzanians, more than half of them women, will benefit from improved social safety nets supported by new financing approved today by the World Bank Board of Executive Directors. The $450 million IDA credit to the Second Productive Social Safety Net Project (PSSN II), implemented by the Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF), will seek to improve food consumption and livelihoods, while increasing children’s primary school attendance and completion; as well as their access to health care. The financing will also improve secondary school participation.“ Tanzania’s earlier social safety net program helped beneficiaries to save more money and obtain more assets. Read More