Digital technologies have been adopted globally to improve efficiency in various forms of social protection for marginalized individuals and households. For instance, the digitization of transactions through Management Information Systems (MIS) aims to improve accounting and transparency and strictly enforce administrative procedures. Social registries created through different enumeration methods aim to better target benefits to reach those meeting predefined criteria. Biometric-based authentication seeks to reduce leakages in welfare distribution, while digital public infrastructure modularizes components (e.g. authentication, bank transfers) to standardize and avoid duplication. Read More