Disability registry
About
DCI develops various technical standard for interoperability. Learn more about our work and the standards process here.
Disability registries consolidate data on the individuals registered as disabled. The goal of a disability registry is to provide a comprehensive picture of who is registered as disabled to later on benefit from social programs for persons with disabilities.
A disability registry has a number of objectives, including but not limited to the following:
- Enable better identification of children and adults with disabilities seeking disability related support
- Provide more granular information that help policy makers understand support requirements of the diversity of persons with disabilities
- Provide a basis for benchmarking and evaluating the effectiveness of disability programs and services
- Optimize the use of public resources by improving the accuracy of targeting and prioritization of support to those who need it most
- Ensure that individuals with disabilities are identified officially, can access their legal rights and entitlements
- Aggregates and synthesizes data across various social protection programs enables prompt and targeted expansion to support in response to crisis.
The disability registry and social protection interoperability standards were endorsed by USP2030 and released on Gitbook.
Standards committee
The standards committee for the interoperability of disability registry and social protection information systems brought together experts from 18 experts from 15 different organizations including governments, international organizations, digital public infrastructure (DPI) initiatives, digital public goods (DPGs), the private sector and individual experts.
