Ehsaas Emergency Cash: social protection response to Coronavirus

• 12 million families • 12,000 per family • Total budget Rs. 144 billion• One time assistance

• If the demand for Ehsaas Emergency Cash is higher, additional resources may be earmarked

Ehsaas Emergency Cash: social protection response to Coronavirus

• Category 1: • Rs. 1,000 per month to the currently enrolled 4.5 million Kafaalat

beneficiaries over and above the regular cash transfer of Rs. 2,000 per month. They will get a lump sum of PKR 12,000 covering 4 months

• Category 2: • Higher eligibility/poverty threshold used to identify 4 million

beneficiaries through the National Socioeconomic Database. • Category 3: • 3.5 million from districts

All categories get Rs. 12,000 a month

Data analytics to determine wealth status has already been run on category 1 and will be will be run on the other 2 categories

Geographic distribution, across federating units

* According to the population formula

Sindh KP Punjab Balochistan AJK GB ICT

Existing Kafaalat4.5 million

New, identified from socio-economic dataase*4 million District category *3.5 million

Provinces can add additional numbers; data analytics will be run on these lists as well. Budget for this category will come from province

What is the Ehsaas SMS campaign

• An SMS campaign will be the entry point to identify beneficiaries

• Citizens can send an SMS on 8171 to check their eligibility status. They will get an SMS, indicating

• Ineligibility • Eligibility; or • Will be asked to contact their respective district administration

4.5 million 4 million 3.5 million

Ehsaas Emergency Cash: SMS process flow

Explanatory note about #4Government servants mean the following categories: • Federal and Provincial Governments • Railways • Pakistan Post • BISP Data of Autonomous agencies and other agencies is not available to us

What happens at the District level

SMS

District lists Webehsaas.nadra.gov.pk

SMS and Web lists will be sent by NADRA to Provinces

Provinces will combine SMS and Web lists with their own lists

Follow up message telling people their

case is being processed

Provinces will have a secure web-portal to upload their district lists

What happens at the District level….contd

Profiling critieriaCategory

travelled abroad

spouses travelled abroadone or more vehicles registered against the names

spouses having one or more vehicles registered against their names

average monthly bill > Rs. 1,000 (PTCL or mobile)

spouses’ average monthly bill > Rs. 1,000 (PTCL or mobile)

applied passport via executive centers

spouses’ applied passport via executive centers

three or more family members applied CNIC with executive fee

employees of Government (federal and provincial)/Railways/Post Office/BISP

spouses Employees of Government (federal and provincial)/Railways/Post Office/BISP

• How to identify beneficiaries of the Ehsaas Emergency Cash initiative • How to make payments

Status of SMS received as of April 3, 7:46 pm

Payment to beneficiaries wall be made after biometric verification through more than 18,065 Points of Sale (retail shops) of two partner banks

12,200 1,8002,315* 1,500 250

* With ATMs

Challenges, dependencies • Provincial governments

• Designate public buildings (schools, townhalls, etc) for setting up special payment sites • Security arrangements at Point of Sales and Banks and queue management • Exceptions for retailers to stay open during ‘lockdowns’ • Compilation of lists should identify true deserving (District Category 3 lists)• Provincial discordance in schemes/payments will create

• Space for collusion at the level of the retailer due to conflicting messaging • Duplication

• Partner banks • Will ensure all Point of Sales will remain open • Sanitation requirement will be complied with in the context of Coronavirus

• State Bank • Liquidity and new currency notes will be available