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A versatile open source solution for cash transfer schemes
Cash transfers are a form of social assistance designed to provide people with quick, flexible help, particularly in emergency situations. During the COVID pandemic, some more than 1.3 billion people worldwide have benefitted from cash transfer schemes which aim aimed to protect their lives and livelihoods. Cash transfers have also become increasingly favored by humanitarian aid agencies as a way Humanitarian aid agencies increasingly use cash transfers to channel assistance to people and households in other types of crises, such as natural disasters. As such, they are an increasingly important instrument for reducing poverty and achieving Sustainable Development Goal 1.As the use of cash transfers becomes more widespread, there is a need for simple, flexible digital solutions which can
openIMIS can help payment service providers and scheme operators to streamline the administration of such schemes. Beneficiaries require money quickly, without having to navigate complicated administrative procedures. Payment service providers and payers/scheme operators need to be able to distribute funds , thereby ensuring that funds are distributed quickly and efficiently to the right people and to use data to adjust the operations of the scheme, for example by adjusting inclusion criteria to reach more beneficiaries. Paper-based systems are too slow and cumbersome to manage . If offers a simple, digital solution for managing the complex flows of information required to determine beneficiaries’ eligibility, enroll them in the scheme, calculate payments and manage the scheme’s operations. Digitalisation can help to streamline these and other processes.https://openimis.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OP/pages/2679799817/Use+cases+served+by+openIMIS+-+overview#openIMIS-supports-the-following-business-processes-for-unconditional-cash-transfers
Business processes
openIMIS supports the following business processes for
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cash
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transfer schemes:
Registration of beneficiary households
Registration of payment service providers
Definition of payment criteria and generation of payroll
Disbursements of payments to beneficiaries
Data analysis
Current implementations
Gambia: Scheme workflows and openIMIS adaptation
Further information
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