The development objective of the Identity and Targeting for Social Protection Project for Morocco is to expand coverage of a unique identifying number for the Moroccan population and foreign residents, and to improve targeting of social safety nets in the Project Area. The project will have three components as follows: First component,design and development of a National Population Register (NPR) with a Unique National Identify (UNI) number will finance the acquisition of goods and provision of advisory services for the following activities in the Project Area: (i) design and development of the NPR systems, including acquisition of computer hardware and software; (ii) attribution of a UIN to the Moroccan population and foreign residents, including verification of the reliability of data and initial data uploading; (iii) technical updating of the existing information systems which will feed the NPR; (iv) preparation of the legal framework (laws and regulations) for the NPR; and (v) building institutional capacity to implement the NPR, and the establishment of a National Identity Agency; Second component,design and development of a social register (SR) will finance the acquisition of goods and provision of advisory services for the following activities in the Project Area: (i) evaluation and revision of operational manuals of SSN programs which will use the SR as an entry point; (ii) development of new procedures for household registration in the SR; (iii) design and development of the SR systems, including acquisition of computer hardware and software; (iv) technical updating of existing information systems of SSN programs which will use the SR as an entry point; (v) carrying out data collection and household registration; (vi) acquisition and development of hardware and software necessary to verify and authenticate;the identity of individuals in the SR; (vii) assessme