Digitalisation in social protection – Healthy DEvelopments

The Digital Frontline: Africa’s One Health Champions

Healthy DEvelopments — Tue, 19 May 2026 09:15:57 +0000

In an era where urbanization, climate change and recurrent infectious disease outbreaks are reshaping the public health landscape across the African continent, countries face not only increasingly complex epidemiological threats but also a critical shortage of expertise required to prevent, detect and respond to them. Yet amid these challenges lies a distinct comparative advantage: a young, technologically adept population driving innovation and digital transformation across the continent. This presents a unique opportunity to leverage digital approaches to strengthen integration across One Health sectors at both continental as well as global levels.

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Digital Public Infrastructure for Health Security: Operationalising One Health in Africa

Healthy DEvelopments — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:42:57 +0000

Across Sub-Saharan Africa, the spread of infectious diseases is accelerating under the combined pressures of climate change, urbanisation, ecosystem degradation and other factors. GIZ’s One Health Data Alliance Africa (OHDAA) project, has been focusing on addressing these systemic barriers to unlock the transformational potential of data for health security in Africa and by extension, the world.

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Digital and Financial Literacy: Empowering Women and Building Climate Resilience in Sindh (Pakistan)

Healthy DEvelopments — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:17:50 +0000

The Digital and Financial Literacy Training (DFLT) programme equips women across Sindh (Pakistan) with practical financial and digital skills, enabling them to manage household resources effectively, access government support, and make informed decisions. By integrating climate-smart adaptive practices, the programme helps women prepare for and respond to climate-related shocks such as floods, heat waves, and other extreme weather events, strengthening both household and community resilience.

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Gender equity in tech is essential for stronger social protection systems

Healthy DEvelopments — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:06:51 +0000

Women play a critical role in developing the digital technologies that underpin the delivery of social protection systems, but remain underrepresented and often undervalued in their field. Women working at the nexus of digital technology and social protection reflect on challenges they face and opportunities to encourage more women into tech careers.

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Mobile Registration Vans: Reaching the Unreachable After Disaster

Healthy DEvelopments — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:41:57 +0000

When cloudbursts devastated parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan, many families lost not only their homes but also their identity documents and access to social protection systems. With support from German Development Cooperation to strengthen Pakistan’s adaptive social protection, Benazir Income Support Programme’s Mobile Registration Vans travelled into cut-off villages to provide on-the-spot registration and ensure that even the most isolated households could reconnect with government support.

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Unlocking the potential of AI for social health insurance

Healthy DEvelopments — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:15:31 +0000

GIZ, ADB, and Amref Health Africa have joined forces to develop an e-Learning course on integrating AI into the management of social health insurance programmes. A Learning Exchange approach is helping to ensure the course is tailored to real world challenges in Africa and Asia.

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Her Money, Her Control

Healthy DEvelopments — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:19:01 +0000

Discover how the Benazir Income Support Programme, with support from the EU and Germany, is empowering women across Pakistan through Digital Social Protection Wallets — giving them secure, dignified access to what is rightfully theirs and moving the country toward a cashless future.

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Cambodia’s Digital Innovation for Improved Nutrition

Healthy DEvelopments — Fri, 23 May 2025 15:57:52 +0000

Cambodia is launching a new set of three digital apps to improve nutrition counselling and child growth monitoring. With their first time digitizing the Ministry of Health aims to reach even the most remote families with expert care and support.

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Breaking Data Silos: How Digital Transformation is Revolutionising Social Protection in Pakistan

Healthy DEvelopments — Tue, 13 May 2025 09:03:54 +0000

Watch how digital transformation and real-time data are enabling faster, smarter, and more inclusive social protection across Pakistan.

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Mobile Registration Vans: Expanding Access to Social Protection in Pakistan

Healthy DEvelopments — Mon, 05 May 2025 13:22:42 +0000

In remote regions of Pakistan, distance and mobility barriers—such as the need to travel long distances and bear transport costs—often prevent vulnerable families from reaching Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) offices to register for assistance. To address this, BISP, with support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through GIZ Pakistan, has launched Mobile Registration Vans. These vehicles bring the National Socio-Economic Registry (NSER)—a nationwide database that collects household information to determine eligibility for social protection programmes—directly to people’s doorsteps. This initiative makes inclusion possible for elderly individuals, women, and labourers who might otherwise be left out. The video captures how this innovative outreach is transforming access to social protection in Pakistan.

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