Monday, September 27, 2021
Well-designed social registries are key to ensuring that the development gains promised by technology are realised while enabling transformative innovations for welfare-delivery at population scale. With increasing digitisation of our lives, we are...
Sunday, August 15, 2021
Surendar Yadav from Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, managed to get a Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) job card just before the Covid-19 lockdown imposed in March 2020, but over the next six months, was not able to find work...
Friday, August 13, 2021
The pandemic could have been an opportunity for India's welfare measures to shine. But poorly designed interfaces, centralisation, and lack of accountability have made access difficult, necessitating civil society organisations to step in.
Blog: The...
Monday, August 17, 2020
A panel survey was conducted by Social Protection Initiative at Dvara Research with 12 partner organisations to understand whether low income, borrower households were able to (a) register to receive benefits, (b) receive credits in their accounts and (c...
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
When Anushree Shridhar heard that vegetables and fruits were rotting in fields near Bengaluru because of India’s COVID-19 lockdown, she knew she had to do something to connect farmers and hungry families. Anushree, a senior accounting assistant with the...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Early Friday morning, people in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi’s informal settlement Kibera began queuing for a food distribution. Residents said they had been waiting for it for over a week — the community elders had gathered their names, ID, and...
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Monday, February 17, 2020
BLOG: The recent State of Aadhaar report that claims statistically that the Indian digital identity has mostly been beneficial with a negligible exclusion is in sync with the makers of the technology and largely the Indian government. However,...
Thursday, October 24, 2019
The European Commission has picked a new partner to run the most valuable humanitarian aid contract in the world. Out goes the UN World Food Programme, in comes the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, which will handle €500...
Friday, September 13, 2019
BLOG: India has emerged as a leader in building on its biometric digital ID (Aadhaar) to reform service and program delivery. A range of applications, including digital signature and payments, was then constructed on top of the Aadhaar foundation (...
Friday, February 1, 2019
An international non-governmental organisation has started an electronic cash transfer programme to facilitate the payment of pensions to over 1100 senior citizens in Mandalay, an executive of the group said.
HelpAge International’s electronic cash...