ASSESSMENTS:
(Inception Reports) Evaluating in-country institutional capacity to implement a project effectively.
DESIGN PROPOSALS:
Including production of all design parameters and proposals on how different processes that form part of the Project cycle will be carried out for the specific country context.
TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION:
Creating Operations Manuals, Technical Annexes, and Training Guidelines for each process.
INTER-INSTITUTIONAL AGREEMENTS:
And Memorandum of Understanding strengthen linkages between in-country institutions for better project management and sustainability.
PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION:
And technical assistance. This includes logistics, training, and fieldwork supervision.
Building Social Protection Systems
We at SOPROEN believe in order to design and implement a social protection system, it should balance both the supply and demand side of social protection interventions and elements. We as a company are working on the how so to make possible an efficient and effective comprehensive social protection scheme:
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- Capable and operational supply side interventions.
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- Development of demand side interventions in which poor and vulnerable households should be able to solve their urgent needs and be able to create strategies and means to escape from poverty.
Improving Supply-Side Programs
We are constantly innovating and improving supply-side interventions like Conditional Cash Transfers, Cash Transfers, In kind interventions, Public Works and others.
We are working in the creation/incorporation of tools such as:
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- Dynamic Social Registries
- Climate change incentives
- Disaster response interventions in record times
- Monitoring frameworks
- State of the art tools including: robotics, machine learning, autoML (artificial intelligence) as well as the inclusion of peripherals (offline applications for data collection and payments, drones for monitoring, among others).
Developing Demand-Side Interventions
Development of interventions and elements that facilitate poor and vulnerable households to identify and select proper service providers as well as to better communicate with projects’ officers.
- Linkages and referrals system for personal health needs, education options for the youth, alternatives for older job seekers (ages 55+).
- Grievance and redress mechanism that includes a call center system, and proper management of resolution case protocols.
Emergency Shock Response and Adaptation Mechanisms
One of Soproen’s pillars is the ability to quickly and effectively design and implement emergency response interventions, with the support of our Emergency Management Information System (EMIS). SOPROEN is able to design ideal responses for any kind of disaster: extreme shocks (unpredictable such us hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions) and adaptive shocks (which are predictable, due to climate change, and can last longer such as floods, droughts or economic recessions). We are able to intervene at every stage of a disaster from the preparedness, rescue/response, to the recovery stage.
In extreme disasters SOPROEN intervenes in the preparation stage by designing Linkages & Referrals Systems (L&R) with the aim of covering the aid required by those affected, especially during the Rescue stage. SOPROEN also supports with the technical assistance in the design of horizontal and vertical expansion transfer programs, for the delivery of cash during the Recovery stage.
In an adaptive disaster, SOPROEN designs and prepares cash transfer programs (horizontal expansion) during the disaster and the Recovery stage.
In both types of disasters, our support also includes the identification and selection of affected people, the collection of information on physical damage to homes and agricultural areas, database management, integration of interventions, surveys of intervention results, provision of call center software and elaboration of communication strategies.
We are able to offer efficient permanent support and technical assistance during the design and implementation of the project, provide staff training, coordination with transfer institutions, and operational management in each of the Project stages from the identification of potential beneficiaries, the delivery of cash transfers, constant monitoring of the execution in the field of each operational process and monitoring the functioning of the L&R system.
Our service includes the development of all operational materials required for the implementation of the intervention. With the use of the EMIS tool, which is totally parametric and dynamic, the information of the entire program can be systematized with agility and efficiently.
Our emergency shock response mechanisms time frame:
- Assessment and operational design: 1 to 3 weeks
- EMIS configuration and module chain construction: up to 1 week
- Implementation phase: within the 1st month after the disaster
Pre-feasibility and Operational Assessment Studies
At SOPROEN we carry out project assessments as well as the design and evaluations of social protection projects.
Studies and reports to design a program:
- Considering sociocultural and local realities
- Operational design of all the project cycle phases
- Assessment to identify operational challenges
- Logical capacity studies of payment agencies
Output related studies:
- Quantitative and qualitative studies to immediately identify effects
- Using machine learning techniques in project data to categorize groups, identify hidden characteristics and product behaviors
Communication-related strategies:
- Development of promotional and marketing strategies and materials for different implementation phases of the project cycle
- User-centered
Material and facilitation for projects execution
- Development of manuals, user guidelines and other materials to facilitate the implementation of projects
- Workshops and facilitations to train staff
Development of Management Information Systems (MIS)
Tailor-made MIS:
- Web-based
- Repository of modules
- Shorter implementation times than other MIS
- Constant innovations to the system and permanent additions
- Capacity for growth and adjustment according to the particular situations
MIS for Emergencies:
- Customizable, flexible, parametric, and modular web-based platform
- Implementation time in record time (weeks)
- Configuration of modules for an emergency chain by selecting specific modules according to the situation and needs of the client
- Forms for data collection can be set up in a matter of minutes
- Beneficiaries can start receiving their benefits in less than a month
- Use of offline applications data collection and transfers
- Online reports and real-time indicators
The MIS is a tool to support the implementation of interventions such as:
- Any type of social protection programs: Conditional Cash Transfers, Cash Transfers, In Kind Transfers, Public Works
- Linkages and Referrals
- Grievance and Redress Mechanism (GRM)
- Social Registries
Pre-feasibility and Operational Assessment Studies
At SOPROEN we carry out project assessments as well as the design and evaluations of social protection projects.
Studies and reports to design a program:
- Considering sociocultural and local realities
- Operational design of all the project cycle phases
- Assessment to identify operational challenges
- Logical capacity studies of payment agencies
Output related studies:
- Quantitative and qualitative studies to immediately identify effects
- Using machine learning techniques in project data to categorize groups, identify hidden characteristics and product behaviors
Communication-related strategies:
- Development of promotional and marketing strategies and materials for different implementation phases of the project cycle
- User-centered
Material and facilitation for projects execution
- Development of manuals, user guidelines and other materials to facilitate the implementation of projects
- Workshops and facilitations to train staff
