<p>The COVID-19 pandemic hit the Peruvian Amazon in mid-March and sparked international concern about the well-being of the indigenous and non-indigenous peoples of the region.Although the two major urban centers—Iquitos and Pucallpa—received media attention, information about conditions in the many smaller rural communities along the rivers of Loreto and Ucayali regions is scarce.</p>

<p>The Philippines Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is implementing the Social Amelioration Program (SAP), which is an emergency subsidy and cash transfer program to support vulnerable households during COVID-19.To fast track the distribution of financial assistance to the affected families, DWSD in partnership with six financial service providers and Land Bank provided the option to receive payments via digital payments.The DSWD will collaborate with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) to understand the experience of digital cash transfer beneficiaries, their usage of mobile money products to identify pain points and develop solutions for future digital cash transfers.</p>

<p>The research team has&nbsp;collected data on the impacts of COVID-19 as experienced by customers of social enterprises around the world.This includes customers of off-grid energy companies (thanks to support from GOGLA and the Rockefeller Foundation) and, clients of microfinance institutions (thanks to support from SPTF and their members) and numerous other social enterprises who have agreed to contribute their data anonymously towards this aggregation.</p>