By Andrew Mkonda:
World Bank-funded Climate Smart-Enhanced Public Works Programme (CS-EPWP) beneficiaries have expressed excitement with the introduction of e-payment mode, saying it will help ease challenges they were facing.
Speaking Wednesday in Kavunde catchment in the area in Lilongwe, one of the beneficiaries, Florida Joshua, thanked the government for introducing the e-payment system in the programme.
“Previously, almost everyone in the village knew that beneficiaries were going to receive their money, which increased the chances of being robbed. But now no one will know that we have received money from the government,” Joshua said.
Lilongwe Land Resources Conservation Officer Setrida Mlamba said the government has introduced e-payment on CS-EPWP to reduce some of the challenges the project was facing, such as delayed payment and fraud.
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“Since the programme was introduced, payments have been done manually, thereby increasing the risk of theft and human resource from councils. We want to deal with these challenges,” she said.
Lilongwe has 22,338 beneficiaries of CS-EPWP and 13,878 of them have already been registered on e-payment.
CS-EPWP is a component of the Social Support for Resilience Livelihood Project, which is being facilitated by the National Local Government Finance Committee with financial support from the Multi- Donor Trust, including the World Bank.—Mana
