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Abstract
This Implementation Plan details how the World Bank Group will achieve the Social Protection 500 million target in FY26–30 by expanding social protection and employment support to 500 million people, including 250 million women, and by establishing robust national digital delivery systems in at least 25 countries. The Plan is organized around four pillars—Protect People, Overcome Barriers to Work, Earn More, and Deliver at Scale—operationalized through seven scalable, evidence-based solutions: direct transfers; care services; public works; microenterprise support; labor market programs; national digital delivery systems comprising social registries, digital payments, grievance redress, case management, and labor market information systems; and locally-led delivery using block grants and participatory processes. It explains country differentiation and bundling of solutions, alignment with WBG missions, partnerships with governments, MDBs, UN agencies, civil society, and the private sector, and financing instruments including IPF, PforR, MPA, DPO, RAS, crisis response tools, and IFC guarantees. The Plan concludes that delivering standardized, replicable solutions through strong delivery systems measurably reduces poverty, raises earnings, enhances resilience, and advances the jobs agenda, but a projected shortfall of 100 million by 2030 requires targeted scale-up in priority countries, tighter alignment with corporate initiatives, catalytic partnerships, and real-time monitoring. It calls for policy changes that institutionalize this shift: adopting legal and regulatory frameworks for national digital delivery systems (data protection, cybersecurity, interoperability, and digital identity governance); harmonizing eligibility, targeting, and grievance rules across programs; reforming labor regulations to improve job matching, apprenticeships, portability, and hiring incentives; advancing gender-responsive policies that register women as primary beneficiaries and expand childcare and long-term care; embedding locally-led delivery through transparent intergovernmental transfers and fiduciary controls; enabling benefit sharing in infrastructure and extractives; and supporting fiscal sustainability through subsidy reform, revenue mobilization, and transition to domestic financing, while aligning scorecard indicators and crisis readiness to expand coverage rapidly when shocks occur.
