The Ghana National Household Registry a unit under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, has on Tuesday 21st January 2020, organized a day sensitization workshop for various MMDAs of the three regions of the North on the single household registration exercise
The Ghana National Household Registry (GNHR) was established in 2015 as a unit under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) with the mandate to create a Single National Household Register from which all social protection programmes in Ghana will select their beneficiaries.
The establishment of the registry by MoGCSP is one major step that will make the targeting of beneficiaries of social protection programmes much more effective and thereby strengthen Ghana’s social intervention system.
The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Hon. Cynthia Mamle Morrison in her address said as the sector Minister in charged with the responsibility of ensuring policy formulation, coordination and monitoring of gender, children and social protection issues in the country, she is very committed to seeing to it that Ghana gets a credible social register of the poor and vulnerable in Ghana and that the richness of this data calls for social protection practitioners, MMDA’s, Academia and CSO’s to use the data for research, planning and targeting.
According to her, the GNHR has a data sharing protocol to ensure that the right data is given out and in the requisite format.
She said, government’s vision of moving Ghana beyond aid calls for a scientific quantification of the poor to enable the state know where they are and readily assist in lifting them from poverty and the GNHR will be very paramount in the achievement of this laudable vision as the registry will help give poverty a name, face, location and identity known by the state.
Hon. Cynthia Mamle Morrison said a total of two hundred and fifty four thousand, households were enumerated in Northern Region, whiles eighty two thousand one hundred and twenty seven households in Savanna Region, and seventy five thousand, five hundred and thirty-eighty, households enumerated in North East region.
“The sanctity and quantity of this data base is crucial in identifying the poor or to be sure those that are vulnerable and needy are the most targeted”, she noted.
Hon Cynthia Mamle addressing the various stakeholders across the three regions of the North, however called on the MMDCEs in the three regions of the North, to facilitate the process by providing the necessary logistics to enable the GNHR carryout a successful exercise in the three regions of the North.
In his address the Northern Regional Minister, Hon. Salifu Sa-eed, said it is their expectation that the data collected by GNHR will not only help social protection programmes in the country to effectively target their beneficiaries, but it will be useful for public policy planning and management as well as research and development in the areas of social protection for the poor, vulnerable and excluded in the society.
The Northern Regional Minister believes that the data will serve as a very good weapon for them to fight poverty and vulnerability which are very endemic in the Region.
Dr. Prosper Larri the Ghana National Household Registry Coordinator in his presentation said the GNHR are very much aware of the accuracy of the data collected will be crucial in helping eradicating poverty and vulnerable in the country.
“We are leaving no stone unturn in our efforts to come out with a credible and reliable single national register for the poor, vulnerable and excluded in our beloved country”, he assured.
Source:AlhassanYakubu | www.Diamondfmonline.com | Ghana
