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Social Safety Nets (SSN) are defined as non?contributory transfer programs targeted to the poor or those vulnerable to poverty and shocks. About half of World Bank social protection projects in the reviewed cohort are SSN. They are mostly non-emergency investment operations with a higher presence in Latin America and the Caribbean and Africa regions. Projects aimed at strengthening country's safety nets system, including their targeting, administration and service quality, are the most common type of SSN interventions (25 percent). These are closely followed by conditional cash transfers (20 percent), and health, nutrition and education projects (15 percent). The remaining projects are a mixture of public works; food crisis mitigation measures and other types of safety nets (social inclusion, housing, and technical assistance).

Audits --- Beneficiary Assessments --- Capacity Building --- Communities --- Decision Making --- Development Policy --- Domestic Violence --- Economic Opportunities --- Flexibility --- Food Security --- Gender --- Health Monitoring & Evaluation --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Household Surveys --- Housing & Human Habitats --- Housing Finance --- Human Capital --- Human Resources --- Living Standards --- Malnutrition --- Mental Health --- Millennium Development Goals --- Mobility --- Mortality --- Needs Assessment --- Polio --- Poverty Monitoring & analysis --- Poverty Reduction --- Prenatal Care --- Project Management --- Quality Control --- Quality of Life --- Sanitation --- School Attendance --- Secondary Education --- Severance Pay --- Social Development --- Social Inclusion --- Social Insurance --- Social Protections and Labor --- Technical Assistance --- Transparency --- Unemployment --- Urban Areas --- Violence --- Vulnerable Groups --- Workers --- Youth

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Social funds represent a diverse universe of World Bank projects. Social funds are defined as agencies or programs that channel grants to communities for small scale development projects. Social funds typically finance some mixture of socio economic infrastructure (e.g. building or rehabilitating schools, health centers, water supply systems,), productive investments (e.g. micro?finance and income generating projects), social services (e.g. supporting nutrition campaigns, literacy programs, youth training, support to the elderly and disabled), and capacity building programs (e.g., training for community based organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and local governments). Social Fund programs are demand driven and aim to involve the active participation of several local actors, often using a community driven development approach. The main goal is usually to address the needs of poor and vulnerable communities while building social capital and empowerment at the local level. Social funds have several features that place them in the social protection (SP) realm. They typically target poor communities and/or vulnerable households. They finance social risk management interventions like temporary employment generation and expanded access to basic services by the poorest. Social funds are often employed to address immediate post?conflict needs and responses to natural disasters.

Access of Poor to Social Services --- Access to Education --- Audits --- Beneficiary Assessments --- Capacity Building --- Corruption --- Discrimination --- Early Childhood --- Economic Opportunities --- Flexibility --- Food Security --- Gender --- Health Education --- Health Monitoring & Evaluation --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Hospitals --- Household Surveys --- Human Resources --- Immunizations --- Living Standards --- Malnutrition --- Means Testing --- Mortality --- Mortality Rate --- Natural Disasters --- Needs Assessment --- Nongovernmental Organizations --- Orphans --- Poverty Monitoring & analysis --- Poverty Reduction --- Prenatal Care --- Primary Education --- Project Management --- Respect --- Risk Management --- Sanitation --- Savings --- Services & Transfers to Poor --- Severance Pay --- Social Capital --- Social Development --- Social Insurance --- Social Protections & Assistance --- Social Protections and Labor --- Social Safety Nets --- Technical Assistance --- Transparency --- Unemployment --- Villages --- Vulnerable Groups --- Water Supply --- Youth