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Pakistan: BISP Rolls Out Social Protection Wallet, Distributes Free SIMs to One Million Women

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https://www.dailyindependent.com.pk/2025/11/18/bisp-rolls-out-social-protection…
dailyindependent.com (18.11.2025) The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) has launched a revolutionary Social Protection Wallet for its registered beneficiary women, marking a historic step towards digital financial inclusion. In line with Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s vision for a cashless economy, BISP has begun distributing free mobile SIMs to approximately one million eligible women across the country. This initiative also reflects the social protection vision of President Asif Ali Zardari and is considered among the largest social protection projects globally.
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pakistan
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Digital inclusion
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news
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Published_SS_Monitor

Publication: Pakistan Health Financing System Assessment: Providing an Empirical Foundation for National and Sub-National Health Financing Strategy Dialogues - Policy Brief

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https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/0ae54e7a-a3f0-49cd-a13…
worldbank.org (13.01.2025) Accelerated progress towards and achievement of universal health coverage (UHC) has become a central goal of the Government of Pakistan’s (GoP) policy agenda in health in recent years. Both at the center and in the provinces, Pakistan’s domestic governments have now consistently reiterated, through the National Health Vision 2016–2025 and other essential agenda setting documents, their joint commitments to making UHC and primary care access a priority across the country.
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pakistan
Global challenges
Health
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Health
Document Type
report
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Published_SS_Monitor

The Evolution of Benazir Income Support Programme's Delivery Systems: Leveraging Digital Technology for Adaptive Social Protection in Pakistan

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worldbank.org (29.02.2024) This report documents the progress that Pakistanhas made so far in improving its systems fordelivering social protection to its people. Thegovernment has increasingly relied on dataand technology to increase the efficiency andeffectiveness of the program.

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pakistan
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Information and communication technology
Service delivery
Document Type
report
Status
Published_SS_Monitor

Global social protection platform to fill knowledge gap

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https://tribune.com.pk/story/2320944/global-social-protection-platform-to-fill-…

tribune.com.pk (19.09.2021) Taking a lead on universal social protection, the Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the United Nations convened the first meeting of the Group of Friends on Social Protection along with Turkey, Nigeria and Costa Rica.

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pakistan

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Published_SS_Monitor_covid19
Published_SS_Monitor

Pakistan: Extension of coverage of the Benazir Income support program

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https://blogs.worldbank.org/endpovertyinsouthasia/immediate-relief-pakistans-pa…

blogs.worldbank.org (04.05.2020) One of Pakistan’s initial measures was to expand its national safety net institution, the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP), to direct additional support to its 4.5 million women beneficiaries. 

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pakistan
Global challenges
Extension of coverage
Shocks & extreme events
Topics
Social assistance
Cash transfers

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Published Measures summary