Opportunities of, and Obstacles to, the Utilisation of the Enhanced Single Registry. Kenya Social Protection Research Study 1

Over the last 10 years, the Kenyan social protection sector has evolved and expanded significantly. The 2011 Social Protection Policy (Government of Kenya (GoK), 2011) introduced a vision of increasing coverage, improving coordination, and bringing about greater integration of programmes and services. As part of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection’s (MLSP) activities to transform the National Safety Net Programme (NSNP) into a responsive, harmonised social protection programme, an Enhanced Single Registry (ESR) is being developed that will function as a social registry.

The ESR will allow other governmental and non-governmental programmes to use its data to target vulnerable and poor Kenyans during normal times as well as during shocks. The Maintains research on social protection in Kenya focuses on providing operationally relevant insights to the Social Protection Secretariat (SPS), the World Bank Team working on KSEIP, and UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) that complements activities conducted as part of the roll-out of the ESR. The research focus for this study was jointly developed and agreed, and the objective of the research is to provide additional information and address gaps in understanding directly linked to developing and implementing the ESR.