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Nsr suCCess storIes




                     WFp programmes leverage



                     Karamoja social registry






                             rom 2016 to 2019, World Food                       people’s records to specific assistance programmes
                             Programme (WFP)  Uganda piloted                    and their entitlements. Analytics can also be
                             the establishment of the Karamoja   WFp currently use   generated about interventions in near-real time.
                             Social Registry (KSR) in line with its   the Ksr to manage   An Application programme Interface (API) link is
                     Ftechnical assistance to the Government                    also in place to the NSR in the Ministry of Gender,
                     of Uganda for social protection systems and   information about   Labour and Social Development to transmit data
                     development of the National Single Registry (NSR).   beneficiaries for   on humanitarian or development interventions
                       WFP used universal registration to populate   maternal and   to the national government.
                     the KSR, capturing the entire population of the  child health and   The KSR data can be used to target programme
                     Karamoja sub-region at the time. Registration   nutrition activities.  interventions to individuals or households on a
                     took place from 2017 and ended in 2019. Data               demographic basis and, if socioeconomic data or
                     in the KSR depicts household composition and               other variables are collected on individuals and
                     contains key biographic and biometric information          entered in the KSR, it can be used for vulnerability
                     of individuals in the Karamoja sub-region.                 or other targeting.
                       Built using WFP’s corporate beneficiary                    Following establishment of the KSR, WFP is
                     information and transfer management system                 currently utilising the system to manage its
                     (SCOPE) the data in the KSR is housed in a secure          programmatic interventions in Karamoja. For
                     platform and access is granted only to specific            example, WFP currently uses the KSR to manage
                     users in line with best practices on personal data         information about beneficiaries for maternal
                     protection and privacy.                                    and child health and nutrition activities and will
                       The objective of the KSR is to provide an overview       utilise KSR data to support targeting humanitarian
                     of the potential beneficiary population in Karamoja        interventions during Karamoja’s lean season.
                     and provide information on who in the sub-                   A road map on the KSR’s use and the
                     region is receiving what type of assistance, from          development of platform services is currently
                     which partners. The platform can be utilised to            being developed, with the aim of providing
                     manage programme interventions by linking                  opportunities for government, humanitarian and


                                                                                                      Members of
                                                                                                      Rubona Youth Art
                                                                                                      & Crafts Project in
                                                                                                      Bunyangabu  display
                                                                                                      some of the items
                                                                                                      they make



























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