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Annual recurrent weather conditions have led to dry spells and food insecurities in many parts of Malawi. It was needed to address affected peoples’ immediate needs in a short amount of time. Therefore, the Lean Season Response (LSR) was created with support of UNICEF and was executed by the Ministry of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare. The LSR was executed between December 2021 and April 2022 and benefited around 17,000 beneficiary households in the districts of Neno, Nsanje, Balaka and Ntcheu. The SOPROEN team was in charge of the operative design and as well as the implementation of the Management Information System (MIS) for Emergencies tool, software that was developed by the company. Since the areas to be intervened have internet connection issues (due to the particularities of the geographic areas), the company also developed two offline applications: one to perform the data collection process and the other to execute the payment process. In the latter process, the delivery of ID cards was implemented for payment receivers that did not have national IDs and the payment confirmation was done using QR codes. Publication: September 2nd, 2022 ...

Since June 2022, SOPROEN has provided support to the Ministry of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare in Malawi for the design and implementation of the Floods Recovery Response, a project that tries to mitigate the effects made by the flooding that has affected the country and that caused displacement of thousands of families and affected a vast amount of the poor population. The project has been financed by UNICEF and has focused on providing assistance through a one-time cash transfer to households in four districts: Nsanje, Chikwawa, Mwanza and Neno. The SOPROEN team supports in the execution of the project through the Management Information System (MIS) for Emergencies, a software developed by the company, which is parametric and flexible and that can be utilized for all kinds of emergencies and multiple emergencies at the same time. To date, the cash transfer has been paid to close to 12,000 beneficiary households. Publication: October 31st, 2022 ...

From September – October 2022, SOPROEN participated in a month-long mission to Suriname with the aim of providing operational support and technical training in the Management Information System that was developed by the company to provide support to the execution of the Affordable Housing Project (AHP). This intervention was funded by the Islamic Development Bank and headed by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Public Housing (MSAHP). The AHP offers cash housing subsidies to low income households trying to build their first home, or improve/expand their current one. With this mission, the AHP is officially launched and as of November 15, 2022, more than 800 applications have been made and registered in the AHP MIS. The goal is to benefit about 3,700 households, of which 2,300 will be located in urban areas and 1,400 in the hinterland (rural areas). Part of the support provided by SOPROEN was a full description of the project cycle and training in the use of all the modules that make up the MIS. Publication: November 5th, 2022 ...

We at SOPROEN wanted to let all of our clients and followers know about a change in how we present our company. SOPROEN is the commercial name for Ayala Consulting Corporation a company that has more than 20 years of experience in the design and implementation of social protection projects around the world. We selected SOPROEN to better reflect the kind of services and knowledge we have. SOPROEN stands for “Social Protection Engineers”, which we are and always have been proud to be. By using the term “Engineers” SOPROEN embodies the fact that we, just like engineers, are able to construct a viable social project from zero. SOPROEN gives our future clients more of an idea on what we can do and show our capabilities. We hope you will continue to follow and support us in this new chapter in our company’s history. Currently our company is working on developing and implementing emergency programs, which adapt to the client’s needs in emergency contexts, especially focused on the global COVID-19 pandemic. We have developed projects that have adjusted to this context and to help the most vulnerable groups to have a lifeline during these times. Also we would also like to take the opportunity to thank all of our employees as well as our past and current clients for the continuous support that they have provided the company. We also would like to thank all of our followers and invite you to continue following us. Our commitment remains to continue our mission to design and implement social protection projects all over the world as we have for the past twenty years. Date: 14 October 2020 ...