This project will develop a databank monitoring system to stop loss of payments from Kenya's Poverty Fund. According to 2014 government audit, the Fund paid Sh 600 million (over $6m) to "ghosts" and "beneficiary organisations diverted the money to private use". Since June 2009, monthly payments of 444,000 orphans and needy persons are paid to people whose identity and existence are unknown. This databank, using mobile phone applications will ensure 1 million vulnerable people receive their help.
Approximately 25 million Kenyans live below the poverty line; an astonishing 46% of the country's population. Of those, 7.6 million are suffering in extreme poverty without direct support; many are orphans and vulnerable people. Lack of an independent system to monitor government cash transfers puts at risk $248 million per year intended to help those most in need.
You can help by: (i). Giving towards running of a databank monitoring system that identifies, verifies and confirms the legitimacy of the cash transfer payments to intended beneficiaries. (ii). Giving direct support to very needy orphans and vulnerable people in Kenya to enable them to afford daily meals, access education, get start-up capital for income generating activities and receive other life essentials such as personalised care, and therapeutic drugs.
When vulnerable people and their carers are empowered to use mobile phones to access the databank monitoring system, upload data that verifies their status and confirm receipt of cash transfers, it puts them in charge of funds, policies, and decisions that directly affect them. This financial control coupled with direct support - in the long-term - enables vulnerable people to become independent, self-sufficient and live a dignified life.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
