Population data will help us come up with robust social protection policies

An enumerator (right) takes a resident of Mikanjuni, Mtwapa in Kilifi County through the census questions during the 2019 national population census. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]

If there is a constituency that stands to benefit most from the ongoing census, then it is the population that is benefitting from the Government’s social protection programmes. 

Although the Government runs a credible cash transfer programme covering the elderly, disabled, famine-sticken, orphans and vulnerable children, there is a general feeling that the data of potential beneficiaries of the programmes is not accurate.