COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program

Data interoperability facilitates beneficiary targetting in times of crisis. Difficulty in consolidating data between federal, provincial, and local-level governments and between sectors affected program implementation and progress monitoring. While Nepal’s social security programs each identify and register beneficiaries, there is no central register for poor and vulnerable populations. Hence, the ward officials identified food support beneficiaries, which led to implementation challenges. Also, no federal-level mechanism was available to collate information on health workers and volunteers receiving incentives from the financial data stored at the entity level, leading to limited information on the effectiveness of the policy.