Registering land was one of the biggest challenges in Uganda until the intervention of World Bank through the Competitiveness and Enterprise Development Project (CEDP). Interview with Ms Dorcas W. Okalany, the permanent secretary, Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development What necessitated the implementation of the land component under the World Bank supported Project called […]
The Registrar General’s Office has embarked on a national civil registration mop-up exercise for people to acquire identity documents ahead of harmonised elections due in a few months time. The one-month mop-up exercise began on Monday this week and ends on May 16. This comes after the RG’s office conducted an extensive mobile registration which […]
Monitoring country progress and achievements by making global predictions: is the tail wagging the dog? – Ties Boerma, Cesar Victora, Carla Abouzahr We call for a repositioning of the production of global estimates, and the transition from MDGs to SDGs provides an opportunity to do so. Neither country policy makers nor the global development community […]
The National Identification Registry is urging all employees and civil servants of government ministries and agencies to register and obtain their biometric ID cards to validate names on the government’s payroll. Speaking on Thursday April 5, 2018 at the regular press briefing of the Ministry of Information, Cultural Affairs, and Tourism in Monrovia, Director General […]
The three-phase project will enable entities under the Ethiopian judicial umbrella to have an integrated IT system. In this regard, the project will have a national data center. In the first phase, a revision of the required specification document and developing a number of systems will be completed. Following this, training for users of the […]
KAMPALA – Officials from the Tanzania land ministry have applauded the Uganda land information centre in combating land-related problems and reducing on time for carrying out land searches. The nine-member delegation from the ministry of land, housing and human settlements was led by Walter Lungu on an induction of the national land information centre and […]
Zainab Conteh and her team are on a mission to improve the quality of data received from health facilities in Bombali district, northern Sierra Leone. At the end of every month, the 112 health centres in the district are supposed to send data on more than 13 different areas of work, from the numbers of […]
Although the government made maternal death notification mandatory in 2004 and put in place a maternal death review system the same year, the district health information system (DHIS 2) and civil registration and vital statistics systems have not captured the number of maternal deaths adequately.Only 15 per cent of the maternal deaths that occurred in […]
UNHCR and the Ministry of General Education and Instruction of South Sudan today launched a new data collection and analysis tool, Refugees Education Information Management System (REMIS) that will help improve monitoring and planning of education programs for refugee children living in South Sudan. “UNHCR’s approach to education of refugee children in South Sudan is […]
The Vice President of the Republic, H.E. Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has called for the speedy automation of the activities of the Lands Commission, to make land title service delivery more efficient. Giving the Keynote Address at a Land Administration Forum in Accra on Wednesday February 28, 2018, the Vice President called on the private sector […]