Harmonization of digital social protection in Cambodia
This brief summarises key learnings from the dialogue on advancing interoperability in Cambodia’s social protection held on July 26, 2022.
You can watch the recordings and download the materials on the event page
Overview:
Cambodia developed a National Social Protection Policy Framework 2016 – 2025 (NSPPF) with the long-term vision of building an effective and financially sustainable social protection system which serves as a policy tool to reduce poverty, vulnerability, and inequality, while at the same time boosting human development and national economic growth.
Towards achieving this vision, a step-by-step approach involved
- an assessment of the existing digital Social Protection (SP) systems landscape
- the formation of a technical working group under the leadership of the General Secretariat, National Social Protection Council
- a partnership with CamDX, a data exchange platform which allows secure data exchange among Government Institutions
- developing a digital social protection framework e) an interoperability showcase project amongst the most significant social protection program operators
This learning brief explores the central social protection registry, which is being created and will support a National Social Protection Platform. The registry contains only identity data of existing and potential beneficiaries, while program-related indicators will remain in the IT solution of the respective SP operator. This guarantees solid authentication of a person while not violating data privacy rules. In the pilot implementation, four programs from the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), Ministry of Planning (MOP), Ministry of Interior (MOI) and Payment Certification Authority (PCA) are being linked with this central social protection registry.