Integrated Data and Information Management for Social Protection

Abstract

"In recent years there has been great focus on coordinating and harmonising systems for social protection. This has led to growing interest in exploring ways to integrate data and better handle information management across multiple programmes. The most cited example of such integration is Brazil’s celebrated Cadastro Único (Single Registry, the term we will be using to describe such poverty databases), yet several other countries have been recently adopting innovative solutions and defining best practices that are still widely undocumented in the literature."(...)