AN ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL SAFETY NET PROGRAMMES TOWARDS CHALLENGES AND BENEFITS OF COMMUNITY IN PAKISTAN
Abstract
In this research, the researcher tried to analyze the transparency with government perspective, while convenience to be assessed with respect to the payment receivers. The beneficiaries from three most used payment methods were taken into consideration like Post Office, ATM Cards, and Electronic-Biometric Money transfer system. Population of this mixed descriptive study ere the beneficiaries, who have experience of receiving payment from all the three payment methods, therefore, beneficiaries of BISP belonging to districts Ghotki and Kairpur of Province Sindh were taken as the population. 06 Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) were conducted. There is a need to make this system cultural and context specific. Themes and concepts were made to analyze challenges and benefits of beneficiaries by evaluating the coverage, efficiency, effectiveness, convenience, transparency and satisfaction o. An effective and strong public information campaign (by using all means of communication) can also play a vital role in minimizing the financial leakage. These quality machines will further help in better service delivery by reducing the payment receipt time and try to maintain better connectivity services, especially in the days of payment.