National Socio Economic Registry (NSER) update

日期 : Feb 2017 - Aug 2019

To ensure objectivity in identifying beneficiaries and for transparency in implementing interventions, effective targeting of` BISP beneficiaries’Ensuring objectivity and transparency in effective beneficiary targeting is pivotal to any Social Safety Program. Socio Economic Registries often have errors at two levels i.e. design level and implementation level. Another important factor that needs to be considered is the frequency (duration or time) at which these registries are updated. Conventionally these registries are updated at an interval of 3 to 5 years to capture changing socio-economic and demographic trends in a country. BISP (now ‘Ehsaas’) is currently in the process of updating the NSER 2010-11 to minimise ‘inclusion-exclusion’ errors and to ensure that the most deserving population and communities are served.The NSER at BISP was established as a result of a 2010-11’s nationwide Poverty Score Card (PSC) survey. Complete information on the socio-economic and welfare status of approximately 27 million household was collected under this PSC Survey. These data were then used, to determine beneficiaries’ identification and eligibility for BISP’s ‘Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT) Payments’. This was done using a Proxy Means Test (PMT) targeting methodology. The data were further used to determine eligibility of beneficiaries for ‘Conditional Cash Transfer Program’, ‘Waseela-e-Taleem’, and other ‘Poverty- Exit’ initiatives by BISP. Beyond BISP, more than 100 government and non-government organizations have utilized this data to target beneficiaries for their respective programs.