“Social protection systems help individuals and families, especially the poor and vulnerable, cope with crises and shocks, improve productivity, invest in the health and education of their children, and protect the aging population. Social protection programs are at the heart of boosting human capital for the world’s most vulnerable. They empower people to be healthy, pursue their education, and seek opportunities to lift themselves and their families out of poverty.” – Word Bank
2M Corp, in partnership with openIMIS has developed an open-source platform for cash-based and in-kind transfer applications called “Kaaraange”. “Kaaraange” is a Wolof word meaning “safety”; in this context “Social Safety”.
The cash-based and in-kind transfer application can help organisations, especially those in developing countries to run multiple Social Protection Schemes.
The application is built with the following components:
Beneficiary registration and management
The Beneficiary management module was built with the following capabilities:
- Manual creation of a household
- Bulk importation of beneficiaries using an excel file with the details of the beneficiaries
- Add household members to a household and define which of the members can collect the funds on behalf of the main household head (beneficiary to a program)
- Associate a household to a program
Program Management module
The program management component allows the agency to define multiple cash disbursement programs. A program has the following attributes:
- Frequency of payment
- Amount to be disbursed per beneficiary
- Start and closing date of a program; preventing beneficiaries from being added to a program after the closing date
- Program status
Disbursement Management
Payroll are generated depending on a frequency of a program. The payroll management follows an approval process. The following functionalities are within this module:
- Create a cycle with a start and end date and specifying whether it’s national or regional. A program is also associated to a cycle.
- The ability to generate a disbursement list for the period specified for a particular program. This creates the list of records for all the beneficiaries associated to that program within the start and end date specified.
- Review and approval of the disbursement list
- Exporting the disbursement list with a read-only option to key columns in excel to be given to the payment service provider.
- Import Payment/Vendor Service Provider updated disbursement file for reconciliation
Reporting
- Potential Beneficiary List
- Credited Post Payment Report
- Uncredited Post Payment Report
- Consolidated Fund Request Report
- User Activity Report
- Like windows crystal reports, windows report viewer technology was used in creating reports. All reports have the functionality to group by and be able to export data to PDF, EXCEL and WORD.