“It helps to calculate scores for each family in Kazakhstan cities, regions, districts and villages and to identify the risk zone for each family. Thus, thanks to the Digital Family Card data on the well-being of all families in the country is updated daily,” the UN says.
Flying nearly under the radar the nation of Kazakhstan, one of Russia’s southern neighbors, has quietly rolled-out a new social assistance program in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), called the “Digital Family Card (DFC).” While the government scheme was unveiled in 2022 it received next to no conversation in the media, but was briefly reintroduced last week before the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit.
The DFC is touted to help achieve SDG #10 Reduced Inequalities, according to Sukhrob Khojimatov, Deputy Resident Representative for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Kazakhstan…
