Ehsaas Emergency Cash:

social protection response to Coronavirus

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
 All categories get Rs. 12,000 a month
• 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

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
Sindh KP Punjab Balochistan AJK GB ICT

Existing Kafaalat
4.5 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

* According to the population formula

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
Ehsaas Emergency Cash: SMS process flow
4.5 million 4 million 3.5 million

Explanatory note about #4

Government 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
Follow up message
telling people their
case is being
processed

SMS and Web Provinces will Provinces

SMS
lists will be combine SMS will have a
sent by and Web lists secure web-
NADRA to with their portal to
Provinces own lists upload their
district lists

Web District lists

ehsaas.nadra.gov.pk
What happens at the District level….contd
Profiling critieria
Category
travelled abroad
spouses travelled abroad
one 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
 2,315* 1,500 250
12,200 1,800 * 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