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Improving Synergies between Social Protection and Public Finance Management - Final joint evaluation
- eval_number:
- 3446
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3446
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Social protection
- category:
- Social Protection
- comments:
- Government departments, CSO’s and beneficiaries.
- challenges:
- Cash transfers are paid from a certain age, or with child benefit to a certain age. There are those who will seek to fraudulently try to participate in a scheme by misrepresenting their age. Government agencies responsible for citizen registration need to ensure the integrity of their database and want to be 100 per cent sure of a person’s eligibility. Anybody without the prescribed documents struggles to enrol.
- success:
- In a number of countries SP&PFM worked with the National Registration Agency to develop programs relating to issuing birth certificates which in the long-term will reduce the problem. For the elderly SP&PFM worked with Government to enroll those who clearly met age requirements in the appropriate SP scheme.
- context:
- In the interviews with the majority of implementers of country-=level activities, reference was made to the exclusion of many persons from the existing SP programs. In most countries, eligibility is dependent upon having citizenship and/or a National Identity number. A precondition for these is having their birth formally registered. Whilst recently this has become automatic for births in hospitals, even today a significant number of children are not born in hospitals so have no birth certificate.
- description:
- There is a need to continue working on registration systems as there is still a high exclusion error from Social Protection programs since most rely upon formal registration e.g. citizenship, National ID or birth certificate to be eligible to enroll in SP programs.
- administrative_issues:
- Advocacy helped to reduce the exclusions but more resources will be needed to continue advocating for greater inclusion in SP programs.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/1148409
- location:
- country:
- Inter-Regional
- region:
- Inter-Regional
- eval_title:
- Improving Synergies between Social Protection and Public Finance Management - Final joint evaluation
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