{"id":32014,"date":"2021-06-08T13:25:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T13:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=32014"},"modified":"2021-06-09T13:30:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T13:30:47","slug":"uganda-chased-away-and-left-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/uganda-chased-away-and-left-to-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Chased Away and Left to Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\">How a National Security Approach to Uganda\u2019s National <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">Digital ID Has Led to Wholesale Exclusion of Women and Older Persons<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Introduction:<\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\">Ndaga Muntu,<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\"> Uganda\u2019s national digital ID system, is a government showpiece <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">that is of major importance for how individuals access their social rights and for how the <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">Ugandan government operates. Initially designed to serve national security objectives that <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">have dominated its operation ever since, <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">Ndaga Muntu<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\"> has never made good on its other <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">promise to foster social inclusion, a promise often repeated by proponents of digital ID <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">systems around the world.<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">4<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\"> As our seven months of in-depth research investigating the <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">impact of this national ID system on the human rights to health and social security for <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">women and older persons will show, the result is the worst of all possible worlds. <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">Ndaga <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">Muntu<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\"> has led to mass exclusion, shutting out as many as one third of Uganda\u2019s adult <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">population, and has become a barrier for women and older persons, as well as many other <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">marginalized individuals, to access their human rights. <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">This wholesale and severe exclusion and the accompanying human rights concerns <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">are not merely an intrinsic wrong, <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">Ndaga Muntu<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\"> has also failed to deliver on many of its <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">instrumentalist promises since its inception in 2014. The national security rationale that <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">has animated this project from the start seems ill-served by <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">Ndaga Muntu <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">in its current <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">form and, if anything, has stirred up trouble, caused anger and frustration, and changed <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">the political ecosystem of the country. The national ID project also soaks up money <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">that could have been used to improve the welfare of the people in Uganda while hardly <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">delivering on the outsized promises associated with digitalisation, such as easier access to <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">public and private services or creating a burgeoning digital economy. Seven years after the <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">introduction of <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">Ndaga Muntu<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">, it is time to fundamentally rethink the approach to digital ID <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">in Uganda<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Download: <a href=\"https:\/\/chrgj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CHRGJ-Report-Chased-Away-and-Left-to-Die.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/chrgj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CHRGJ-Report-Chased-Away-and-Left-to-Die.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How a National Security Approach to Uganda\u2019s National Digital ID Has Led to Wholesale Exclusion of Women and Older Persons Introduction: Ndaga Muntu, Uganda\u2019s national digital ID system, is a government showpiece that is of major importance for how individuals access their social rights and for how the Ugandan government operates. 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