Aadhaar is a biometrically enabled digital ID system (serving as a proof of identity and address) developed in India and managed by the country’s Unique Identification Authority. 1.2 billion people currently have Aadhaar, over 90% of residents nationwide. The system was developed as of 2009, with a primary objective of streamlining access to services and ensuring cost-effectiveness in service delivery.
Indonesia’s Unified Database (UDB – which is now formally called Data Terpadu Kesejahteraan Sosial (DTKS) or Unified Database on Social Welfare – performs Social Registry and Integrated Beneficiary Registry functions, providing information for poverty targeting, management and M&E across the country’s largest social assistance programs.
Pakistan’s National Socio-Economic Registry (NSER) is an e-government information system that electronically facilitates registration into social assistance programmes in Pakistan. It therefore performs a Social Registry function and contains data on household socioeconomic characteristics for more than 25 million households (>85% of the population).
Turkey’s Integrated Social Assistance Service Information System (ISAS) is an e-government information system that electronically facilitates the management of social assistance programmes in the country, including registration, identification of eligibility, enrolment, disbursement of funds, M&E, communications with citizens and auditing. It therefore performs a Social Registry function and an Integrated Beneficiary Registry function, while also supporting further operations along the delivery chain.
