| Date: | (2017 - ) |
| Description: | Conditional cash transfer programmes. These social pensions are adressed to older people (over 65 years) who suffer of poverty or extreme poverty and do not have access to the public social security system. |
Characteristics
| Target population: | Adults over 65 years old and people. |
| Geographic scale: | National |
| Targeting method: | Proxy means test: Households in levels 1 y 2 of the Social Registy. |
| Instrument of selection: | Social Registry (Ex-SELBÉN) |
| Registry of recipients: | Social Registry (Ex-SELBÉN) |
| Exit strategies or criteria: | As part of the measures to face the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and social isolation, the Family Protection Bonus was delivered for an amount of USD $60 in April, May and June 2020. My Best Years Pension Program users in a situation of underemployment and with incomes of less than USD $400 per month had the right to receive this measure. There was also a temporary increase in the transfer to recipients of Social Protection Grants, including the BDH. The amount was paid in 6 payments of USD $15, every two months, from December 2020 to October 2021, for a total of USD $90 per user. |
Institutionality
| Legal framework: | |
| Responsible organization(s): | Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion (MIES) |
| Executing organization(s): | Social Protection Programme (PPS) |
| Source of funding: | Governemnt of Ecuador |
1) Pensión Mis Mejores Años (My Best Years Pension)
| Recipient(s): | Adults over 65 years without social security, who are in poverty and extreme poverty acording to the Registro Social. |
| Mode of transfer: | Flat transfer |
| Mode of delivery: | Cash withdrawal, magnetic/debit card |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Monthly |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Direct participant |
| Maximum per household: | Does not have |
| Conditionalities: | Does not have |
| Sanctions: | Does not have |
| Amount : | US$ 100 monthly ; see data Excel format |
2) Bono de protección familiar por la emergencia Covid-19 (Family protection Allowance for the Covid-19 emergency)
| Recipient(s): | Families in a situation of underemployment and with an income lower than USD $ 400 per month. |
| Mode of transfer: | Flat transfer |
| Mode of delivery: | Cash withdrawal |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Monthly |
| Comments: | The delivery was made for the months of April, May and June 2020. |
| Amount : | USD $60 |
