Farmer registries and social protection information systems

Overview:

This paper contributes to the thinking and practice around one particular way in which coherence between agricultural and social policies can be achieved, leveraging the extensive progress that has been made in the information systems that support the design, delivery, coordination and monitoring of policies and programmes across both agricultural and social sectors.

This paper builds on recent experiences across a range of countries to highlight how the two information systems serving the agricultural and social protection sectors can ‘speak’ to each other to maximise mutual benefits and enable better support to smallholder farmers and other groups. The paper sets out to explore:

• How the design of standalone farmer registries can be useful to social protection information systems and vice-versa
• When and how farmer registries and social protection information systems can be integrated and embedded in a broader, interoperable digital information ecosystem

This document was prepared by Valentina Barca and Madhumitha Hebbar under the guidance of Alejandro Grinspun (FAO) and Anita Mittal (GIZ).