Esoko Limited, a Ghanaian pioneering technology firm has signed a one year contract with the government of Liberia to embark on a data collection exercise for the country.

The project funded by the World Bank through USAID would aim at collecting social data of 200,000 households, as part of the government of Liberia’s Household Social Registry Project.

A press statement signed by Simone Fugar, Marketing and Communications Manager of Esoko, said the initiative was under the auspices of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection of Liberia and would be rolled out in four out of 15 counties, comprising Bong, Bomi, Nimba and Maryland.

“This will cater for about one million deprived people living in households under extremely poor, food and nutrition insecure conditions. After profiling, they will benefit from social protection packages such as cash transfers and other social resilient services,” the statement said.

Williametta Saydee-Tarr, the Liberian Gender Minister, in the statement said, the government and its partners would benefit from data that would be collected for their social development programmes. She further noted that, the end goal was to improve livelihoods for the government’s pro-poor agenda.

The social registry when created, would ensure that there was synchronization of a common database, which would drive the efficiency of policy formulation and implementation, enhance programme tracking, monitoring and management.

Dr. Daniel Asare-Kyei, the Chief Executive Officer of Esoko, said “Esoko is pleased for this opportunity to bring our unique leadership and expertise in combining modern advanced technology in data digitization and field deployment solution to support the Liberian Government in this pro-poor development agenda. As a company, we exist to drive digital and financial inclusion for Africa’s rural people and this project is set to achieve just that.”

Esoko has successfully delivered similar flagship projects in partnership with government of Ghana. These projects included the Ghana National Household Registry (GNHR) exercise, where 120,000 households were surveyed.

The biometric and spatial data of 200,000 farmers were also collected for government of Ghana’s planting for Food and Jobs Programme. In a record time of two months, 400,000 households were profiled under the government’s Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme.

All these were made possible through Esoko’s data collection technology, ‘Insyt’ combined with its professional and dedicated team.