Pak launches One Window Ehsaas’ National Data Exchange Platform

ISLAMABAD, Oct 16 (DNA): On the occasion of World Poverty Day, Special
Assistant to the Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation and Social
Protection, Senator Dr. Sania Nishtar Saturday launched ‘National Data
Exchange Platform’ (NDEP) for the Ehsaas’ National Socioeconomic
Registry 2021which is one of the six main pillars of One Window Ehsaas.

With the Ehsaas National Socioeconomic Registry 2021 survey stands
almost complete, NDEP will facilitate data sharing and data access
services for all executing agencies stewarded by Poverty Alleviation and
Social Safety Division (PASSD).

Later, this service will also be extended to provinces and other
government agencies implementing Ehsaas programs as well.  Speaking
to press media about the launch of NDEP, Dr. Sania said, “Ehsaas NDEP
will be a game changer in transforming social protection and poverty
reduction programs in the country.

In the past, there was no way of one government agency knowing what
support an individual or a family was getting from another government
agency.

Some families with connections and influence were getting multiple
benefits and other more deserving ones were getting none.”

She further reinforced, “But now with Ehsaas NDEP in place, the
executing agencies in ecosystem of Ehsaas will be able to see what
benefits an individual or a household is getting by simply punching in
the computerized national identity number of an individual.

More importantly, the benefits which each family and individual is
receiving from each organization will also be visible to all agencies
across Ehsaas programs.”  Dr. Sania also congratulated the teams
working on the national socioeconomic survey and technology. 

This data integration of Ehsaas survey will also facilitate adoption of
the Ehsaas One Window targeting Policy that Prime Minister approved in
the last quarter.

It will ultimately save programme cost, reduce redundancy, optimize
beneficiary targeting, and will also enable efficient and effective
policy decisions, planning and implementation.

Data sharing will be safeguarded through the Cognitive API Architecture
approach. There will be two-way data sharing; agencies with whom data
will be shared will also be required to update the registry with their
own information.

The NDEP will also be connected to the databases of other federal
agencies enabling real-time beneficiary information validation, such as
NADRA, Utility Stores Corporation and Mobile Point of Sale system of
National Bank.

Hence, the same data exchange platform will underpin the rollout of the
forthcoming Ehsaas targeted commodity subsidies program in collaboration
with Utility Stores Corporation and National Bank of Pakistan.

Through this national scale data sharing platform, the executing
agencies of Ehsaas will be able to access data from the unified registry
in real-time to validate beneficiary information. DNA

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