The government is in the process of collecting data on vulnerable persons in the society to establish a single data registry.
Loitoktok sub-county Children Officer Dennis Njoroge said information on the poor, elderly, orphans and those living with disability will be collected.
This will be consolidated into an Enhanced Single Registry, which the government would use for reference, Njoroge told reporters.
“Apart from the government making informed decision through the data, other non-government organisations who would wish to assist the poor and vulnerable in the community may access the data.”
The Children’s office is working with the Department of Social Development and has recruited 110 staff who will collect the data.
They will move from house to house collecting data and will work under the guidance of 10 supervisors, who have also been hired.
However, Njoroge said data collection has been temporarily stopped to allow the Inua Jamii programme time to finalise.
Inua Jamii, which is also being conducted by the Department of Social Development, will start this week.
The programme will see the elderly registered and have accounts opened with various banks, through which their cash transfers will be done.
“We are also engaged in registering households of persons living with disabilities who were recently registered,” he added.
Registration of households will be conducted at grassroots level before accounts are opened, to enable those registered to be included in the cash transfer programme.
