“…It also resonates with the global expansion in the scale and diversity of direct benefit transfers as a policy instrument to advance social protection in many developing economies (Iazzolino, 2018), building on evidence of a positive correlation between DBTs and various indicators of wellbeing (Hagen‐Zanker et al, 2016). The proliferation of direct benefit transfer programmes with overlapping, fragmented and “silo‐based” delivery is, however, also a potential source of unfairness and inefficiency, resulting in some households receiving multiple benefits while others receive none (Agranoff, 2005; Morse, 2013; Stewart, 2014; Uusikylä, 2013; Wegrich, 2019). To avoid such problems, it seems almost self‐evident that public sector bodies need collaborative and integrated systems for sharing the poverty status and eligibility of individuals and households across different programmes (Clegg, 1990, in Agranoff, 2005, p. 20; Hazy et al, 2011).…”