Tag: Pilot test and roll out

Designing Beneficiary-Centric ‘Direct Benefit Transfer’ Programmes: Lessons from India – Part II

This Policy Note Part II, details out the “Seven Steps of DBT Programme Design” for a robust and beneficiary centric direct benefit transfer programme.

Sep 23, 2016

Arshi Aadil, Lokesh Singh, Ritesh Rautela, Rridhee Malhotra and Vijay Ravi

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Designing Beneficiary-Centric ‘Direct Benefit Transfer’ Programmes: Lessons from India – Part I

This Note as a first part of the two-step series explains the pre-requisites and the steps, which if followed, can help in implementation of successful government DBT programmes.

Sep 19, 2016

Arshi Aadil, Lokesh Singh, Ritesh Rautela, Rridhee Malhotra and Vijay Ravi

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Feeding India’s Poor: Plugging Leakages, Without Doing Any Harm

This policy brief discusses two distinct and more recent approaches, namely, Direct Benefit Transfers and e-PDS (i.e. Automation in PDS), as undertaken by different states to address leakages.

May 31, 2016

Isvary Sivalingam and Lokesh Singh

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Payment Banks: What can we learn from Indian experience

MicroSave’s “Payment Banks: What can we learn from Indian experience” is a handbook encapsulating 20 years of on-the-ground research and technical assistance; creating successful business cases while serving the mass market. The handbook provides deep insights, from across the globe, around strategy, product development, and agent network development/management.

Jan 14, 2016

MSC

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The Safaricom M-PESA Pilot Test

This Note highlights one of the least recognised success factors – the careful pilot testing of the M-PESA solution. The Note highlights the key lessons learned through the pilot-test.

May 25, 2015

David Cracknell

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Mobile money and microfinance: A match made in heaven or marriage gone awry?

Though most of the microfinance and mobile money partnerships have failed to scale-up in India, it is helpful to understand the challenges. This blog studies such partnerships in India share key takeaways.

Sep 9, 2014

Lokesh Singh and Nishant Kumar

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