BISP
the premier social safety net is not only catering to the wellbeing of the 5.4
million vulnerable women across Pakistan but has also earned $794 million
foreign exchange for Pakistan through its performance. This foreign exchange
came from the development partners World Bank, DFID and Asian Development Bank
(ADB) from 2013-2017 after BISP met all the Disbursement Linked Indicators
(DLIs) related to enhanced coverage of Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT),
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT), targeting communication, outreach, governance
and management.
BISP has shown an exceptional
performance and over achieved all the DLIs upon which rating of BISP by World
Bank and DFID have significantly improved. DFID has rated BISP as A and
World Bank (WB) upgraded its ranking from satisfactory to highly satisfactory
due to effective service delivery and transparency.
The first DLI was related to the
enhanced coverage of BISP in order to ensure universal coverage of basic cash
transfer for all eligible beneficiaries. Under this BISP met all the DLIs by
increasing the number of beneficiaries from 3.5 million in FY 2011/12 to 5.4
million in FY 2015/16.
BISP over achieved the targets of key
indicator on introduction of co-responsibilities for families with primary aged
children benefiting from UCT to promote primary education. As per this
DLI, BISP had to enroll 0.5 million but BISP has over achieved this target by
enrolling 1.7 million children into primary schools.
BISP’s performance on targeting,
communication and outreach strategy remained commendable. It devised a
technology based update and grievance system to address complaints, updates and
appeals related to WeT that has resolved more than 70% complaints on average.
It developed a comprehensive social mobilization plan to make its beneficiaries
understand the attendance compliance requirements & benefits of the
programme, chalked a Cash Transfer Beneficiary Outreach Strategy and
operationalized the pilot phase of new survey by June 30, 2016.
The development partners have shown
high satisfaction on enhanced governance and management systems to strengthen
transparency and accountability by BISP. To ensure transparency, BISP
publicized the Poverty Score Card data and shared data sharing protocols for
public and private entities on its website. It converted more than 90% payments
to its beneficiaries through technology based mechanism like smart card, debit
card and phone based payments.