UpdatingtheSPIforPakistan

DataChallengesandOtherConcerns

SP Program Workers Welfare Fund

Implementation Agency Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development

Data Source Ministry of Finance PRSP Report

Concerns Data complete

Zakat

Ministry of Religious Affairs, Zakat & Ushar and provincial departments

Ministry of Finance PRSP Report

Data complete

Bait-ul-Maal Benazir Income Support Program Citizens Damage Compensation Program

Pakistan Bait ul Maal BISP (Cabinet Division) Government of Pakistan

Ministry of Finance PRSP Report Ministry of Finance PRSP Report From the official website registered with National Database Regulatory Authority Ministry of Finance PRSP annual progress reports

Data complete Data complete Data is available only phase wise and not yearly

Employees old Age Benefit

Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis & Human Resource Development and EOBI

All data is complete.

Provincial Employees Social security Institutions Civil Servants Pension Scheme (Federal & Provincial) National Internship Program

Provincial Social Security Institutions linked to the Department of Labor

From newspaper clippings and National Review And Appraisal of The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing 2012. Have requested for data from the Ministry of Finance and the office of AGPR. Ministry of Education & Training

Data cannot be found for 2011-12. It is provincial level data that needs to be collated. Data on request.

Government Provident Fund, Ministry of Finance

Data is available from multiple sources and may be hard to confine

Ministry of Professional & Technical Training

No internships offered in 2011-12 due to transition from federal to provincial level following devolution Need data on jobs created to calculate beneficiaries and expenditure

Peoples works program

The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development

Ministry of Finance PRSP annual progress reports

DataSources&DataCollection
Household/Economicsurveyswereused LaborForceSurvey201011 PakistanStandardofLivingMeasurementSurvey201112 EconomicSurvey201213ofMinistryofFinance AcademyforEducationPlanningandManagement(AEPAM)EducationSurvey201112 Administrativedata/reports PensiondatafromAccountantGeneralPakistanRevenues(AGPR) YearBook201112,MinistryofEducation&Training MediumTermBudgetaryFrameworks PovertyReductionStrategyPaper(PRSP)ProgressReports Projectwebsites CitizensDamageCompensationProgram PakistanBureauofStatistics SecondarySources ProvincialEmployeesSocialSecurityInstitutionsdatawasavailablefromfigures reportedinthenewspaperforandCountryReportonNationalReviewAndAppraisalof TheMadridInternationalPlanofActiononAgeing2012 Personalcontacts MinistryofFinance UNDP SocialSafetyNetProjectfundedbyWB BISPChairperson

Issues&Challenges
Availabilityofdata LimitedinformationonSPprogramsinhouseholdsurveys NosingledatacollectionbodyforallSPprograms Pensiondatanotdisclosedpublicly DataDisaggregation Almost none of the programs show gender disaggregation No survey of target population to determine ultra poor vis a vis poor visa vis nonpoor Frequency of Release LFS was not conducted in 201112. Data available for 201011 and 201213 Labour and Human Resource Statistics 20002010 by Ministry of Labour and Manpower was taken out only once. PESSI data was recorded there. No recent poverty estimates official poverty line estimated in 200102 Population below poverty line estimated in 2006 by WB Poverty estimates for 201112 based on projection by official food inflation

Project Phases not aligned to Fiscal Years: Citizens Damage Compensation Program runs in Two phases not aligned to fiscal year Phase I: Sept 2010 to June 2011 (609,788 * PKR 20,000) Phase II: July 2011 to June 2013 (320,551 * PKR 40,000) Untargeted SP programs: Calculation of beneficiaries difficult in such schemes such as subsidies on electricity, wheat and other food items and housing. Excluded from SPI calculations Data on Beneficiaries missing: Peoples Work Program (PWP) is a cash for work initiative. Schemes and expenditure given. No data on jobs created. MTBF 201013 contained information for jobs created un PWP. Not in the most recent MTBF 201316 Provincial Plans missing: No Social Protection Strategy (2007) implementation plan especially for the provinces post devolution. Most of the initiatives included are federal level or nation wide. Omission of one time programs, and nongovernment interventions may further lead to underestimation

Recommendations
A Single data collection body for SP programs would be more timely Several of the initiatives fall under PRSP Data collection was made easier particularly of devolved initiatives such as Zakat and PBM. The Scope of PRSP coverage can be expanded. Data on beneficiaries should be disaggregated along gender. Where available, disaggregated data (by gender & income group) should be made public so as to have precise estimate for gender/poverty targeted rate NeedmorerecentPovertyfigures.Inabsence,hardtoestimatePTR Nationallevelindexcouldbeanaggregationofprovinciallevelindexestomake itmorecomprehensive. Coverageofsocialsecurityfortheinformalsectorisoftenignored