
Richard Chirchir
Senior Management Information System (MIS) Specialist
Director and Senior Management Information System Specialist, Richard Chirchir leads the design and development of our multi-platform ICT solutions. He has extensive experience in designing management information systems for social protection programmes, including complex integrated MISs. He reads inspiring stories and writes blogs in his spare time.
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Richard Chirchir's Work

Developing capacity to convince policymakers to invest in inclusive social protection
Convincing policymakers to invest in inclusive social protection can be challenging. They may not appreciate the value of social protection, may believe it is unaffordable, or may have been convinced...
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Kenya Social Protection Sector Review 2017: Main Report
The Kenya Social Protection Sector Review Report, released by the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, offers a strategic review of the evolution of Kenya’s social protection sector between 2011 and 2017 and includes many lessons for other countries as they seek to expand their social protection systems.
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Inua Jamii Senior Citizens’ Scheme
The Inua Jamii Senior Citizens’ Scheme is a tax-financed pension-tested social pension offering universal pension coverage for all citizens of Kenya once they reach 70 years of age. The programme,...
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Making a pilot cash transfer possible in Angola by developing an MIS
A new pilot cash transfer for children in Angola requires an MIS for a successful launch. As part of the design and implementation of pilot cash transfer for the Government...
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Spearheading Cash Transfer Design and Implementation Worldwide
Development Pathways’ experts have experience in both the high-level design of cash transfer programmes and the operational design and technical parameters for programme implementation. When designing social protection programmes —...
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Securing smooth operations across social protection programmes
Our assignment was to ensure that existing databases and systems for a number of cash transfers was consolidated into one integrated system for efficient and effective programme operations.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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Single Registries and Social Registries: Clarifying the Terminological Confusion
Development Pathways is pleased to share our latest Pathways’ Perspective, Single Registries and Social Registries: Clarifying the Terminological Confusion, by Richard Chirchir and Shez Farooq. Richard Chirchir and Shez Farooq seek...
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Making smart use of technology: How electronic registration made Kenya’s universal pension possible
The Government of Kenya made a landmark decision in 2017 to provide a basic monthly pension income to its older citizens over the age of 70 years. The move represents a major step forward in the building of Kenya’s national social protection system. As the final preparations are made to...
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Are you respecting the right to privacy as you advance social protection?
The protection of privacy in large scale social protection programmes in low-income countries is rightly under the spotlight at this time, and this demands an effective response from those designing and implementing social protection programmes, writes Richard Chirchir. Criticism regarding data handling for beneficiaries and entitlement transfers, and apparent unauthorised access to identity...
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Good practice in the development of management information systems for social protection
In recent years, social protection has moved rapidly up the policy agenda in developing countries. Debates on the design of social protection schemes, however, are often dominated by ideological discussions....
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An overview of Kenya’s Single Registry Model
The launch of Kenya’s Single Registry scheme marks a major step forward in the management and monitoring of social protection in low- and middle-income countries, writes Richard Chirchir. The Registry has enabled the government of Kenya to link together the Management Information Systems (MISs) of five social security schemes (the...
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