Ehsaas Emergency Cash program ranks among top 4 in the world

The World Bank has recognised the Ehsaas Emergency Cash programme among the top four social protection interventions globally in terms of number of people covered.

The WB has just released a report on “global social protection responses to Covid-19,” according to an official statement issued on Saturday.

This report is called the “living paper” and it is a partnership effort involving 18 co-authors and a large number of contributors; the paper presents a 650-page volume and accompanying database documenting how countries and territories are planning, implementing or completing social protection measures in the context of the pandemic.

The report states that there has been “an exponential growth in social protection measures between March 20, 2020 and May 14, 2021 and that a total of 3,333 social protection measures have been planned or implemented in 222 countries or territories”.