Prioritizing the poorest and most vulnerable in West Africa: Togo's Novissi platform for social protection uses machine learning, geospatial analytics, and mobile phone metadata for the pandemic response

Summary

World Bank results brief summarising Novissi's key achievements. Reports that ML algorithms predicted consumption patterns for 5.83 million individuals (70 percent of population) and between November 2020 and March 2021, 57,000 new beneficiaries were prioritised through predictive algorithms. Describes the selection of poorest villages and neighbourhoods through high-resolution satellite imagery and nationally representative household consumption data.