COVID-19 Pandemic and Uganda’s Need for Equitable Social Targeting and Registry

By Benard Mujuni Uganda’s development agenda is anchored on Social development, which underpins context of poverty, equity, social inclusion and social protection floor that require effective targeting of the vulnerable persons in the delivery of social services. The emergence of the second wave of COVID-19 has provided yet another challenge. As a country, we seem to have learnt and quickly forgotten much. The absence of a clear system for targeting the vulnerable groups for the delivery of livelihood interventions has resulted into the need to develop an equitable Social registry sooner than later. The possibility of mistargeting and excluding the…