PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
Ehsaas Kafaalat
Ehsaas Kafaalat; an unconditional cash transfer programme that includes six monthly cash stipends of Rs. 14,000 and bank account for 8 million poorest women across all districts of the country. The Ehsaas Kafaalat payment system features biometrically enabled disbursements to beneficiary women on six monthly basis.
Ehsaas Amdan (income) Program
One Window Ehsaas Center
Ehsaas Amdan aims to create livelihoods opportunities for those that are mostdisadvantaged.The programme involves giving away of small “assets” to those who live below the poverty line so that they can earn a living and can come out of the shackles of poverty.
Ehsaas Raashan Riayat
Ehsaas is a multicomponent initiative. It has many programmes for 16 different target groups. But often poor families are not aware of benefits, they are entitled to and, if they are aware, they have to go to multiple offices to seek individual services for individual programmes.
With One Window Ehsaas, our aim was to deliver services through a single window at the citizen’s interface and therefore, we decided to build One Window Ehsaas.
One Window Ehsaas has six pillars: A One Stop Shop, the Ehsaas Center; a public facing digital information and services platform; mobile app; back office consolidated digital interface; Cognitive API architecture, or the integrated national socioeconomic database and finally the Ehsaas One-Window Beneficiary Selection and Targeting Policy.
Ehsaas Rashan Riayat programme aims to reduce the impact of inflation for the marginalized segments of society. Under the programme, a targeted subsidy of Rs. 1,000 a month is granted to each of 20 million eligible families on the purchase of flour, pulses, cooking oil. Accordingly, 30% subsidy is given on these three items, per unit purchase.
Ehsaas Emergency Cash
Ehsaas School Stipends
In March 2020, the Ehsaas Emergency Cash programme was a response to the COVID-19 crisis, which in addition to its dire health consequences, decimated livelihoods at an unprecedented scale.
Ehsaas Nashonuma
Ehsaas School Stipends has been rolled out to support education of 10 million children in all 160 districts.
Ehsaas Nashonuma programme; a health and nutrition conditional cash transfer programme which aims to address stunting in children under 23 months of age. Pakistan’s high rates of 40.2% stunting, 28.9% underweight and 17.7% wasting are indicative of an on-going crisis among children.
Ehsaas Tahafuz
Ehsaas Tahafuz is Pakistan’s first precision safety net. It is a patient centric programme that caters to one-time catastrophic health expenditures for those who lack the ability to bear the heavy expenditures.
Ehsaas Rehirbaan
In collaboration with the Capital Development Authority, Ehsaas implemented an initiative to give street hawkers licenses which will enable their protection against predatory elements. This project is currently in its nascent stages and will be upscaled incrementally based on evidence.
Ehsaas Interest Free Loans
Ehsaas Undergraduate Program
Ehsaas Langars
Ehsaas Panagah (shelter homes)
As part of Ehsaas framework, approximately 80,000 interest free loans are being disbursed every month across Pakistan. It aims to graduate the poorest households out of poverty and set them on a course of economic and social prosperity. Half the interest free loans go to women.
Ehsaas Undergraduate Scholarships; the largest ever need cum merit based undergraduate scholarship programme in the history of Pakistan. Every year, 50,000 students from low-income families are awarded scholarships for 4 to 5-year undergraduate degree programmes. Over four years, 200,000 undergraduate scholarships will be awarded.
Ehsaas Langars are meant to serve meals to the poorest and most vulnerable segments of the society, especially daily wage laborers.
Panagah is one of the priority programmes of Prime Minister. Panagahs not only provide shelter to daily wage earners but also a two-time meal to them.
