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Article 4 of 5: Over the course of 2020, MicroSave Consulting conducted two nationally representative telephonic surveys in India examining the government’s effectiveness in distributing a collection of social protection benefits broadly known as the PMGKY that were established in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This report explores the results regarding the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana and offers policy recommendations.

Article 3 of 5: Over the course of 2020, MicroSave Consulting conducted two nationally representative telephonic surveys in India examining the government’s effectiveness in distributing a collection of social protection benefits broadly known as the PMGKY that were established in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This report explores the results regarding the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana and offers policy recommendations.

Article 2 of 5: Over the course of 2020, MicroSave Consulting conducted two nationally representative telephonic surveys in India examining the government’s effectiveness in distributing a collection of social protection benefits broadly known as the PMGKY that were established in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This report explores the results regarding India’s Public Distribution System and offers policy recommendations.

Article 1 of 5: Over the course of 2020, MicroSave Consulting conducted two nationally representative telephonic surveys in India examining the government’s effectiveness in distributing a collection of social protection benefits broadly known as the PMGKY that were established in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This report details the study’s methodology and sample characteristics.

This SPACE paper explores how decentralization, localization, and adaptive social protection relate to each other conceptually. In doing so, it touches on relevant subjects such as the growing use of integrated information systems, data collection, and remote enrollment, among others.

This Better Than Cash Alliance report details principles for building responsible digital payment systems. An update to BTCA’s 2016 publication, the report emphasizes the importance of consumer trust driven by reliability, interoperability between services, and conscious efforts to include marginalized communities, particularly women.

In March 2020, a team of researchers began providing technical assistance to the Government of Togo to help guide their humanitarian response to the COVID-19 crisis. This report provides a short, non-technical summary of those efforts through the year 2020.

Integrating information for the purpose of articulating social protection policies is hard work. It requires a combination of political will, capacity for institutional cooperation, software development and direct communication channels with citizens. Because of this complexity, countries that pursue this objective often cooperate to exchange knowledge, and the Brazilian Single Registry (Cadastro Único), the backbone of some 20 social protection programmes, is frequently cited as a successful example of integration....

The disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic complicated the delivery of social protection payments, while at the same time necessitating their use at unprecedented scale. Lowe, McCord, and Beazley analyze optimal approaches to distributing and expanding G2P transfers in 2020 by combining literature review with case studies of Nigeria, Peru, Sri Lanka, and Togo. Their findings highlight the importance of comprehensive ID systems, digital and financial inclusion, existing systems, and...

The COVID-19 lockdown provides a test of whether these investments in digital infrastructure would pay off and help the government deliver relief quickly, efficiently and equitably.