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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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