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 Publication: April 2019 In the last decades, Social Safety Nets (SSNs) are increasingly being used as a key measure to alleviate poverty and vulnerability among people in developing countries, not only to face short-term calamities but also for long-term development, contributing to a more self-reliant, economically viable population. While in 2009 only 19 countries possessed a national Social Protection (SP) strategy in place that outlines systemic approaches, currently around 68 do so (Abdurazokzoda, 2014). When a country’s poor population remain poor after implementing a Social Safety Nets program, it indicates a failure of the program. In order for SSN program to be successful, it is required to meet a certain criteria. Failing to meet this criteria, is the reason to the failure of SSN programs.       Download Article ...

Publication: 03 Jan 2019 With the recent increasing need for Emergency Cash Transfer programs, private consulting firms alongside and the international organizations, find themselves obligated to constantly develop innovative mechanisms and tools to respond quickly to the emergency contexts. When a natural or humanitarian disaster struck, international assistance programs (such as UNICEF, World Food Program (WFP) and others) would respond by providing assistance to people in need. Cash transfer programming is also recognized by other international agencies and governments as a powerful instrument to help vulnerable people living in poverty to increase, not just in the sense of their household income, but also in terms of school enrollment, health and nutrition indicators, in addition to supporting people’s choice to spend cash benefits on what they feel they need the most (instead of what the program has decided they need) and thus retain dignity among affected populations. Download Article ...

 Publication: 18 May 2018 In an emergency context, implementing cash transfers is becoming more challenging as it requires a quick response that does not exceed a three-month period. Our firm has developed innovative mechanisms successfully implement an emergency cash transfer project. Cash transfer programming is also recognized by other international agencies and governments as a powerful instrument to help vulnerable people living in poverty increase, not just household income, but also school enrollment, health and nutrition indicators, in addition to supporting choice and dignity among affected populations.

 Publication: 09 April 2017 Reliable information of a country’s population is of crucial importance for successfully taking decisions on policies, programs and other aspects aiming at improving people’s lives. An effective tool to achieve the aforementioned goals is the Single Household Registry (SHR) which is known for its centralized identity database that contains comprehensive Household (HH) information and enables unified administration and monitoring across a variety of Social Protection (SP) Programs. However in practice, despite its well documented benefits, inconsistenties still exist leading to a range of weaknesses in its design, and utimately its implementation. To utilise a SHR efficiently and effectively, this paper presents our firm’s Dynamic Single Household Registry (DSHR); one that improves present SHR processes, creating a household registry that is regularly updated, has room for expansion and allows for the integration of other participant institutions or agencies’ databases and vice versa. Download Article ...