The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection has officially launched a comprehensive training programme for enumerators and supervisors tasked with collecting data on vulnerable households in Kericho County, through the Enhanced Single Registry (ESR) System, which aims to provide vital information on the vulnerable members of the community.
According to the National Social Protection Secretariat (NSPS), the aim of the Enhanced Single Registry is to deliver transformative social protection services that promote food and nutrition security, access to health services, and education, enhance incomes and capabilities, and address issues of social justice and the exclusion of vulnerable groups.
Speaking during the launch of the training exercise, Kericho East Sub-County Social Development Officer Felix Chacha intimated that the data collection officers would use the harmonized targeting tool to target the right population, which includes the elderly, the sickly, the poor, Persons with Disabilities, and orphans, among other vulnerable members of society.
The Social Development Officer highlighted the significance of the exercise assuring that the government would offer complementary programmes to existing beneficiaries and urged the community to cooperate with the officers undertaking the registration process on 15th October 2024.
Chacha disclosed that the exercise would run for 20 days, further explaining that the data collected would give updated information on the number of vulnerable people in the county as of 2024 detailing their types and levels of vulnerability to help in proper planning by government and partners intending to undertake social protection programmes to alleviate them from continued vulnerability and suffering.
“We are onboarding both potential as well as beneficiaries of our cash transfer programme so that we can have a solid registry of both poor and vulnerable populations,” added Chacha.
The training of 30 Enumerators and 3 Supervisors taking place at ACK Holy Trinity Church in Kericho Town was officially opened by the Kericho East Deputy County Commissioner Mr. Kibe Maguta who assured the officers of adequate security when they kicked off the door-to-door enumeration exercise within the Sub-County.
By Kibe Mburu and Ken Kiprotich
