Indonesia's Unified Database for Social Protection Programmes: Management Standards

July 2015

The Unified Database (UDB) contains the names, addresses and socioeconomic data for approximately 24.7 million Indonesian households – some 96.4 million of Indonesia’s poorest – and plays a significant role in efforts to improve the targeting of beneficiaries of poverty reduction programmes.

The UDB’s data is managed by the National Targeting Unit for Poverty Reduction (UPSPK), within the Secretariat of the National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (TNP2K). The UPSPK’s main role is to ensure that the UDB can be accessed and used by social protection programmes, provide technical support to UDB users, monitor and evaluate how the UDB is used, ensure the validity of studies aimed at improving programme targeting, improve the use of information technology in the management of the UDB, and deliver the information contained in the UDB via the internet.

Managing such a large amounts of data and meeting high-standards of accountability requires staff who have special skills and competencies, as well as appropriate data management standards to ensure that the data is utilized effectively. The book, “Indonesia’s Unified Database - Management Standards”, looks at the lessons learned from managing a large volume of data as well as provides guidelines on how the management of the database should be done in the future.

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