Children of BISP active Kafaalat beneficiaries may receive funding through the Benazir Taleemi Wazaif Conditional Cash

Introduction

Benazir Taleemi Wazaif children of BISP active Kafaalat beneficiaries may receive funding through the Benazir Taleemi Wazaif Conditional Cash Transfer Programme for their upper secondary education. Beneficiaries are encouraged to enrol their children in schools or colleges through additional financial incentives, and by assuring retention, dropout rates are reduced.

Objectives

The goals of Benazir Taleemi Wazaif are as follows:

To raise among BISP beneficiary households a long-lasting understanding of the value of primary, secondary, and higher secondary education;
They increase the number of students enrolled in introductory, intermediate, and higher education;

to increase kids’ attendance at school and lower school dropout rates.

Stakeholders

• BISP
• Provincial Education Departments
• Schools
• Donors

Background

Benazir Taleemi Wazaif in November 2012, the BenazIn November 2012, the Benazir TaleemiWazaif Programme was first piloted in five (5) districts. The programme gradually grew from five (5) sections to thirty-two (32) in 2015, to fifty (50) in 2018, and then to one hundred (100) communities in January 2020. In July 2020, the scheme was expanded to include all of Pakistan’s districts. ir TaleemiWazaif Programme was first piloted in five (5) districts. The programme gradually grew from five (5) sections to thirty-two (32) in 2015, to fifty (50) in 2018, and then to one hundred (100) districts in January 2020. In July 2020, the scheme was expanded to include all of Pakistan’s communities.

Key Processes

Following are key processes of the Taleemi Wazaif Programme

• Micro Supply Capacity Assessment (MSCA)

The provincial departments of education provide the information for the micro supply capacity evaluation of all public schools to BISP. Prior to beginning registration and enrollment processes, it is important to determine the capacity (available enrolment capacity, infrastructural conditions, accessibility, and catchment area) of both public and private schools. When a child enrols in a private school, mothers are identified and the supply capacity of those institutions is assessed.

• Social Mobilization

Benazir Taleemi Wazaif social mobilisation aims to raise awareness of the value of education among BISP beneficiary families. The BISP field team travels to various areas within the relevant districts to encourage beneficiaries to register their children for school. Additionally, they visit beneficiaries who have non-compliant children in their particular quarter to learn the cause of non-compliance and to encourage them to meet the mandated attendance. During the times when attendance compliance efforts are not operationalized in the field because of school closure, assignment completion, and break, BISP field offices mobilise people in large numbers.

Registration and Enrollment

One of the main activities of the Taleemi Wazaif initiative is enrollment. After the SCA is finished, a large registration process that includes all possible beneficiaries starts. By conducting beneficiary communication at the local level as well as through a large Public Information Campaign (PIC) (media campaign), the Taleemi Wazaif potential families are invited to registration centres/tehsil offices created near their vicinities. Families and their eligible children become programme beneficiaries after Taleemi Wazaif’s potential family successfully completes the registration process.

The registration procedure’s goal is to identify the active BISP families with kids in primary school (4–12 years old), secondary school (8–18 years old), and upper secondary (13–22 years old), and register them in the programme.

• Admission and Attendance Compliance

Cash disbursements under the Benazir Taleemi Wazaif programme are contingent upon beneficiary families meeting the program’s admission and attendance requirements. In order to qualify their individual families for financial benefits, children’s co-responsibility compliance must be observed. Cash transfer is halted in the event of non-compliance, nevertheless.

Identify Taleemi Wazaif beneficiary children who have complied with the co-responsibilities with regard to admission and attendance, and grant them the right to cash transfers. Identify Taleemi Wazaif beneficiary children who have not complied with the co-responsibilities, and in such cases, raise alerts and apply the appropriate consequences for non-compliance.

Case Management

Benazir Taleemi Wazaif The program’s case management approach is a crucial component. Beneficiaries will use field offices to file a variety of complaints, and prompt resolution of the complaints will not only increase the effectiveness of the program’s implementation but also increase beneficiaries’ trust in sending their kids to school. The majority of the complaints are handled by BISP field offices.

• Eligibility Criteria

Children must meet the following requirements in order to participate in the Benazir TaleemiWazaif programme

• Children of BISP Kafalat Beneficiaries who are Active
• A child must be between the ages of 4 and 12 to register for primary school.
• Children must be between the ages of 8 and 18 to engage in secondary education.
• Children must be between the ages of 13 and 22 to engage in higher secondary education.

• Enrollment Process

An eligible youngster must be accepted into a school or institution in any district across the nation in order to benefit from the programme. To enrol her child in the Benazir Taleemi Wazaif programme, the beneficiary must attend an enrollment centre or field office with the required documentation.

• Beneficiary’s CNIC; B-form or CRC from NADRA; admission slip to a school or college with class information and the name of the institution attested by the teacher.
• The NADRA database B-form/CRC verification is required before a kid may be enrolled in the scheme.
• Co-Responsibilities

Aziz Benazir TaleemThe youngsters in the WazaifProgramme must fulfil two co-obligations in order to receive monetary transfers.

• Enrollment in a school or college
• Quarterly attendance of 70%

Admission Co-responsibility

Each child of a currently participating BISP family (under the eligible age limits) is only verified once in the Programme upon registration (when s/he enters the Programme).

• Attendance Co-responsibility

From the second quarter forward, a benefit kid must attend school or college for at least 70% of the days that the school or college is in session.

• Benefit Amount
• Below is a list of the children’s programming stipend rates

• Graduation Bonus for Girls

In order to encourage girls to finish primary school, the Benazir Education Stipends programme offers a one-time graduation incentive of Rs.

Enrollment

12.01 million youngsters have signed up for the scheme since it began. The breakdown of education levels is as follows:

• Disbursement

Under Benazir TaleemiWazaif, BISP has distributed Rs. 63.34 billion since the program’s commencement. Below is an illustration of the disbursement breakdown by year.

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