ISLAMABAD
\nThe World Bank (WB) Country Director Najy Benhassine has congratulated Ehsaas on the successful completion of South Asia\u2019s first digital National Socio-Economic Registry (NSER) survey.
\nHe was addressing the launching ceremony of the NSER survey chaired by Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation and Social Protection, Senator Dr Sania Nishtar.
\nHe congratulated the government of Pakistan and Ehsaas on achieving this historical milestone. The World Bank feels proud to be the technical partner in this game changer survey, he added.
\n\u201cThis is not just Pakistan\u2019s but also South Asia\u2019s first digitally enabled socio-economic census. It will be really transformative that the registry will now facilitate data sharing for social protection programs of the federal government, provinces, government departments and development agencies,\u201d he maintained.
\nIn her opening remarks, Dr Sania said, \u201cPart of Ehsaas strategy, we have just concluded a new National Socioeconomic Registry of 34.41 million households. We did various validations of the data to precisely identify the real poor.
\nTehsil level Ehsaas Registration Desks have also been opened all over the country to keep the national socio-economic registry dynamic, she said, adding, the registry will be regularly updated every four years.
\nShe also congratulated the Ehsaas team on successful completion of the survey. This is a great achievement as despite COVID-19, this survey has been completed after a lag of ten years, she maintained.
\nEhsaas has successfully accomplished a countrywide National Socioeconomic Registry Survey which includes households\u2019 information in terms of geographic data, demographics, socioeconomic status, education, health, disability, employment, energy consumption, assets, communications, agri-landholdings, WASH, livestock etcetera.
\nEhsaas conducted a door-to-door computer aided survey all across the country to gather data about the socioeconomic status of households. With the conclusion, this will be the most reliable data set for the use of public sector institutions, think tanks and development agencies for designing social protection and poverty alleviation programmes.
\nJulien Harneis, Resident Coordinator UNRC, Secretary Ismat Tahira, and senior representatives of Government Departments, Asian Development Bank, development partners and media officials joined the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD The World Bank (WB) Country Director Najy Benhassine has congratulated Ehsaas on the successful completion of South Asia\u2019s first digital National Socio-Economic Registry (NSER) survey. He was addressing the launching ceremony of the NSER survey chaired by Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation and Social Protection, Senator Dr Sania Nishtar. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-237433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n