This Inter Agency Social Protection Assessments (ISPA) tool provides guidance on how to assess a payment mechanism for the delivery of cash or near-cash social protection (SP) transfers primarily targeted at poor and vulnerable populations.
It is designed for use by SP policy makers and practitioners working in lower- and middle- income countries seeking to improve payment delivery in existing programs or to establish a payment mechanism for a new program. The tool proposes three criteria for use in assessing the quality of SP payment delivery mechanisms: accessibility, robustness, and integration. These criteria can also be applied when designing a new payment delivery mechanism.
Like all ISPA tools, the Social Protection Payments tool includes four parts:
ISPA Tool Implementation
Completed
Botswana*
Cote d’Ivoire*
Guinea*
Kenya*
Liberia*
Morocco
Namibia*
Nigeria*
Peru
Sao Tome*
Sierra Leone*
Zambia*
*Implementation in this country was carried out by the World Bank Group’s Identification for Development (ID4D) initiative.
In Progress
Angola
Chad
Ghana
Togo*
Vietnam*