The Role of Digital in the COVID-19 Social Assistance Response
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in vast numbers of people in need of social assistance, many of whom were not previously covered by social safety nets. To meet this unprecedented level of need, governments quickly scaled social assistance reaching over 1.7 billion people in low- and middle income countries. Scaling up social assistance presented two separate but related challenges: first, adapting targeting and registration to reach individuals not commonly included in social assistance databases, such as urban informal workers, and second, how to deliver government to person (G2P) payments safely and securely in the context of the pandemic. Countries that could leverage pre-pandemic investments in digital public infrastructure (DPI)— identification (ID), payments and trusted data sharing—were better able to implement COVID-response social assistance programs and reach more beneficiaries. This paper, analyzes the role of these DPIs, also called digital stack, in the social protection response to COVID by analyzing data on howCOVID-response social assistance programs register red and made payments to beneficiaries across178 programs across 85 countries. The analysis shows how these digital systems and infrastructure allowed for innovative targeting, registration, and payment approaches that covered a significantportion of the population. This paper uses administrative data on G2P registration and payment methods combined with anecdotal evidence from country case studies to show how pre-pandemic investments in digital databases, digital ID, and digital payments impacted countries’ abilities to reach new beneficiaries and deliver payments safely in the context of the pandemic response. It further details workaround solutions implemented by countries without these assets and infrastructure in place, and how some countries were able to expand their digital infrastructure even amidst the urgency of the crisis response. The analysis concludes with suggestions as to the impact that the social assistance response to COVID-19 can have on the future of social protection payments, in terms of inspiring investments in building and strengthening G2P ecosystems globally.
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Subjects: | SCALING UP SOCIAL ASSISTANCE, GOVERNMENT TO PERSON (G2P) PAYMENTS, DIGITAL PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE, DIGITAL IDENTIFICATION, DIGITAL PAYMENTS, TRUSTED DATA SHARING, COVID-19 DIGITAL SOCIAL ASSISTANCE, DIGITAL STACK IN SOCIAL PROTECTION, TARGETED TRANSFERS, PANDEMIC ASSISTANCE RESPONSE, DIGITAL SOCIAL PROTECTION PAYMENT, |
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dig-okr-10986381042022-10-05T05:10:36Z The Role of Digital in the COVID-19 Social Assistance Response World Bank SCALING UP SOCIAL ASSISTANCE GOVERNMENT TO PERSON (G2P) PAYMENTS DIGITAL PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE DIGITAL IDENTIFICATION DIGITAL PAYMENTS TRUSTED DATA SHARING COVID-19 DIGITAL SOCIAL ASSISTANCE DIGITAL STACK IN SOCIAL PROTECTION TARGETED TRANSFERS PANDEMIC ASSISTANCE RESPONSE DIGITAL SOCIAL PROTECTION PAYMENT The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in vast numbers of people in need of social assistance, many of whom were not previously covered by social safety nets. To meet this unprecedented level of need, governments quickly scaled social assistance reaching over 1.7 billion people in low- and middle income countries. Scaling up social assistance presented two separate but related challenges: first, adapting targeting and registration to reach individuals not commonly included in social assistance databases, such as urban informal workers, and second, how to deliver government to person (G2P) payments safely and securely in the context of the pandemic. Countries that could leverage pre-pandemic investments in digital public infrastructure (DPI)— identification (ID), payments and trusted data sharing—were better able to implement COVID-response social assistance programs and reach more beneficiaries. This paper, analyzes the role of these DPIs, also called digital stack, in the social protection response to COVID by analyzing data on howCOVID-response social assistance programs register red and made payments to beneficiaries across178 programs across 85 countries. The analysis shows how these digital systems and infrastructure allowed for innovative targeting, registration, and payment approaches that covered a significantportion of the population. This paper uses administrative data on G2P registration and payment methods combined with anecdotal evidence from country case studies to show how pre-pandemic investments in digital databases, digital ID, and digital payments impacted countries’ abilities to reach new beneficiaries and deliver payments safely in the context of the pandemic response. It further details workaround solutions implemented by countries without these assets and infrastructure in place, and how some countries were able to expand their digital infrastructure even amidst the urgency of the crisis response. The analysis concludes with suggestions as to the impact that the social assistance response to COVID-19 can have on the future of social protection payments, in terms of inspiring investments in building and strengthening G2P ecosystems globally. 2022-10-04T16:42:45Z 2022-10-04T16:42:45Z 2022 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099830009302217091/P1731660f8c52f062092ac00d53c648bac7 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/38104 English en CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC Working Papers :: Other papers |
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The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in
vast numbers of people in need of social assistance, many of
whom were not previously covered by social safety nets. To
meet this unprecedented level of need, governments quickly
scaled social assistance reaching over 1.7 billion people in
low- and middle income countries. Scaling up social
assistance presented two separate but related challenges:
first, adapting targeting and registration to reach
individuals not commonly included in social assistance
databases, such as urban informal workers, and second, how
to deliver government to person (G2P) payments safely and
securely in the context of the pandemic. Countries that
could leverage pre-pandemic investments in digital public
infrastructure (DPI)— identification (ID), payments and
trusted data sharing—were better able to implement
COVID-response social assistance programs and reach more
beneficiaries. This paper, analyzes the role of these DPIs,
also called digital stack, in the social protection response
to COVID by analyzing data on howCOVID-response social
assistance programs register red and made payments to
beneficiaries across178 programs across 85 countries. The
analysis shows how these digital systems and infrastructure
allowed for innovative targeting, registration, and payment
approaches that covered a significantportion of the
population. This paper uses administrative data on G2P
registration and payment methods combined with anecdotal
evidence from country case studies to show how pre-pandemic
investments in digital databases, digital ID, and digital
payments impacted countries’ abilities to reach new
beneficiaries and deliver payments safely in the context of
the pandemic response. It further details workaround
solutions implemented by countries without these assets and
infrastructure in place, and how some countries were able to
expand their digital infrastructure even amidst the urgency
of the crisis response. The analysis concludes with
suggestions as to the impact that the social assistance
response to COVID-19 can have on the future of social
protection payments, in terms of inspiring investments in
building and strengthening G2P ecosystems globally. |
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