CO-SOCIAL SECURITY NETS IN WEST AFRICA This project aims to contribute to strengthening the mission of the Regional Project to Support National Social Security Nets (PRAFNSS) by supporting the definition of national safety nets policies and programs and nutrition. This reinforcement will be achieved through the valorisation of the results of different capitalisations carried out in Mali, Niger and Burkina by consortia of NGOs gathered within the "common frameworks", on social safety nets and essentially on the following themes:
- Mechanisms,processes and targeting steps (harmonization of geographical, socio-economic and categorical criteria based on the specific needs of vulnerable groups);
- Transfer mechanisms (choice of microfinance institutions, traders, telephone operators, depending on the risks identified) and financing problems;
- Harmonization of monitoring / evaluation plans for comparability of effects (expected and unexpected), complementarity between qualitative and quantitative approaches and improved reporting quality, whileproviding the necessary elements for advocacy;
- Strengthening the effectiveness of complaint management systems in rural municipalities.
- Institutional anchoring of social safety nets.

Indeed, the results produced by these capitalisations (some ofwhich are still planned or in progress) will make it possible to identify and make a typology of good practices according to the objectives of the social safety nets, their target groups and the effects obtained, Access to a rich diet, protection and / or diversification of livelihoods, consideration of pastoral vulnerabilities and the search for the most appropriate social safety nets For these specific social groups, the ability to cope with shock or uncertainty. In addition to the common frameworks, other capitalization studies have also been carried out by national and international actors in these three countries, which can also be used to draw lessons and identify good practices. All these lessons learned need to be debated and validated in inclusive workshops bringing together the various technical, state and financial partners in order to identify the best functional combinations of social safety nets A consensus basis around the standardization of these instruments and their integration into a national / regional vision of social protection.

In order to realize this projection towards the social safety nets framework for food and nutrition security, the project aims to produce so-called "standardized" technical data sheets, including an inventory of good practices, Synergy between the actors. A special effort will be devoted to the dissemination of these capitalization products, at country level, to state and non-state actors, within clusters / common frameworks / steering committees of national social protection programs, Scale of the region via the ARAA communication channels and through Inter-networks (OXFAM's partner in this project). Recommendations will be formulated to accompany the establishment of a Regional Taskforce ofSocial Netsprovided for by the ARAA.

Apart from this present project, which is of regional scope, the NGO OXFAM has also respondedto this call for proposals for innovative social safety nets launched by ECOWAS through 2 other pilot projects of national scope submitted separately by the country teams. Burkina Faso and Niger. These two national pilots aim to test demonstrative models of preventive safety nets with the involvement of national institutions in charge of crisis prevention and management or in the implementation of social protection policies. The lessons learned from these 2 pilot projects will be integrated into the capitalization exercises planned for this project.