How social protection recipients can raise their voice – with SMS messages
How can social protection communications ensure recipients understand their entitlements and hold social protection officials to account? Even in humanitarian contexts, in remote, sparsely-populated regions with low technology-penetration rates? This is the question that our Management Information Systems team in our Kenya office has been putting expertise into answering. It...
Fake news: World Bank accuses Kenya’s old age pension of benefitting the rich!
Stephen Kidd We probably all know the story of the scorpion that was given a lift across a river by a frog. Halfway across, the scorpion stung the frog, condemning them both to death by drowning. As she was dying, the frog asked the scorpion why he’d done it and...
Strengthening Rwanda’s social protection system
To strengthen Rwanda's social protection system, we supported the development of a National Social Protection Policy and Strategy.
Upgrading a social assistance MIS and linking social protection programmes with a Single Registry
Uganda’s social protection sector is characterised by a large number of fragmented and uncoordinated interventions with a wide variety of different management information systems (MISs). There was a need to...
Improving social protection coverage and effectiveness in Malawi
We designed, developed, tested and deployed a national platform to enter, store, access and share household data for social protection programmes in Malawi.
Improving food, nutrition and income security in Karamoja
Karamoja, a northeastern region in Uganda, has been perceived as ‘lagging behind’ and has been treated by external parties, both the Government and development partners, as an exception to the...
Strengthening Kenya’s Single Registry to improve co-ordination
The Single Registry is a policy tool that enables the Government of Kenya to link together the Management Information Systems (MISs) of five social assistance schemes. We used our extensive experience of MIS design to strengthen the system in a joint initiative by the World Food Programme and Kenya’s National Social Protection Secretariat.
Pinpointing refugees’ vulnerability in Uganda and recommending food assistance improvements
Uganda has a long history of hosting refugees from neighbouring countries. Our assignment for WFP involved research to improve the evidence on refugee vulnerability.
Building capacity for an effective Hunger Safety Net Programme
The Hunger Safety Net Programme provides a safety net for pastoralists living in chronic poverty in the four Kenyan counties of Turkana, Marsabit, Mandera and Wajir. The programme provides regular,...
Expanding Social Protection in Uganda by implementing a pilot and making the case
We were contracted to carry out a long-term project to build a comprehensive national social protection system, playing an integral role in building political support for a more cohesive system.