Page 15 - Social Protection Newsletter

ICt PersPeCtIVe

Government has
put in place specific
interventions
including the
Uganda Women
Entrepreneurship
programme, the
Youth Livelihood
programme, Social
Assistance Grant
for Empowerment
(SAGE) and
Operation Wealth
Creation (OWC) as
innovative measures
to support women.

Single Registry interlinking and holding source code manuals and user manuals. complementarity service, the National
all SP sector programmes; and Linkages ix. Signing of MOUs with NITA, UBOS, ID verification services to guard against
to external databases such as NIRA, UBOS, NIRA, OPM and WFP. benefit fraud and double dipping
and NITA-U. x. Launch of the NSR on the 4th among others. Lastly, it runs the analytics
Before the launch of the National Single February, 2021 service where a wide range of reports
Registry (NSR) by the Minister in February xi. Development of Data Sharing on payments, beneficiaries, exits and
this year, the Ministry had registered a Protocols in line with the Data Protection grievances can be run based on different
number of success milestones as part of and Privacy Act, 2019. parameters including gender, location,
the establishment process supervised by xii. Technical Training of users age to mention but a few.
both the National Steering and Technical The National Single Registry (NSR) is As part of our future plans, .we hope
Committees. The milestones include: now online and can be accessed by the to onboard more social protection
i. Development of guidelines and public on NSR.mglsd.go.ug and currently programmes that had not integrated in
standards for Management Information reporting from more than four social the first phase. We also plan to develop
Systems (MIS) linking with NSR (Mapping protection programmes. The National a Communication and Advocacy Plan to
and MIS assessment report) Single Registry (NSR) already runs a popularise the National Single Registry
ii. Completion of the design and number of services supporting social (NSR) within Government and the
development stages of NSR protection programmes including the development partners.
iii. Completion of the civil works in
the server room
iv. Linkage with the of National
Identification Registration Authority (NIRA)
ID Database for beneficiary verification.
v. Development of Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs) with the
various programme MISs
vi. Completion of the National
Geographical Master List from UBOS
that sets out administrative boundaries
including parishes and villages LC1.
vii. Completion of the electrical set-
ups and ICT equipment installation in
the Server Room to host the National
Single Registry (NSR)
viii. System documentation completed
including system administration manual, Members of the National Technical Committee for establishment of the National Single
Registry (NSR) undertaking User Acceptance Test at Esella Hotel in 2020.

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