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Esoko 2018 | Private & Confidential
Converting from paper to digital systems for ground metrics development
Feb 28, 2018, Nairobi
Esoko 2018 | Private & Confidential
Poverty reduction is taking different dimensions
A key question is how
well African
safety nets are able to
identify
and reach the poor and
vulnerable,
especially those in
extreme poverty and
vulnerability?
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Ghana Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP)
• LEAP is a social cash transfer programme that provides cash grant to the extremely poor households.
• Its main aim is to alleviate short-term poverty and encourage long-term human capital development.
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The LEAP program has relied on paper based systems
INACCURATE
• Transcription Errors
• Missing Data
• Incorrect Data
• 54% Data Accuracy
EXPENSIVE
• To return to field
• To manage paper
• Data entry clerks
• Storage of survey papers
• Highly inflexible
SLOW
• 6 months to process
• could take a year for data to travel to national capital or never
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• Portable
• Skip logic
• Works offline/online
• Realtime data synchronization
• Instant smart card issuance
• Receipt printing
• Biometric capture
• Local deduplication
• Server deduplication
• Real time GIS mapping
• Timestamped data and agent
management
• Questionnaire update
• Real time poverty scoring
Paper Registration
Key featuresConversion to digital systems
Using Portable
biometric hardware Insyt offers tablet-
based data collection
services to agencies
seeking to target and
serve rural folks
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Ground impacts
• Data collection process time reduced from two weeks to 4 days
• Data accuracy improved from 55% to 100%
• Qualification rates of poor households improved from 5% with paper systems to 40%
• The end result is improved targeting of poor and vulnerable households who truly deserve to receive cash transfers
