Disability Registry
The OpenSPP Disability Registry is a modular digital platform designed to support national systems that register and manage information about persons with disabilities. It enables governments and organizations to record disability status, assessments, and support needs using internationally recognized standards such as the Washington Group questions. By maintaining structured disability data and linking it with social protection and service delivery systems, the registry helps ensure that persons with disabilities can be accurately identified and included in programs and services that support their participation and well-being.
Identification and registration
The Disability Registry provides the foundation for identifying and maintaining records of persons with disabilities. It allows institutions to register individuals, maintain disability profiles, and link disability status to other administrative records and social protection programs.
- Register persons with disabilities and maintain their disability status
- Assign unique disability identification records
- Maintain disability profiles linked to individuals and households
- Track the history of disability assessments and updates
Disability assessment
The Disability Registry supports structured disability assessments that allow trained personnel to evaluate functional limitations and determine disability status in a consistent and transparent way. Assessment results are recorded in the system and linked to individuals, enabling authorities to determine disability status, maintain assessment history, and support program eligibility decisions.
- Conduct structured disability assessments for registered individuals
- Record functional limitations and assessment outcomes
- Support approval workflows for validated disability status
- Maintain a complete history of disability assessments
- Generate standardized disability indicators for program use
Disability classification and monitoring
The Disability Registry enables institutions to classify disability types, severity levels, and causes using standardized vocabularies aligned with international disability data standards. It supports monitoring of disability status over time and allows authorities to manage reassessment cycles when conditions change or periodic reviews are required.
- Classify disability types and causes using standardized codes
- Record disability severity levels
- Monitor changes in disability status over time
- Maintain review schedules for reassessment
- Track approved disability status for individuals
Assistive devices and support needs
The platform allows institutions to record assistive technologies and support needs associated with persons with disabilities. This information supports service planning and helps ensure that individuals receive appropriate assistive devices or other forms of support.
- Record assistive devices needed or provided to individuals
- Track requests and delivery of assistive technologies
- Capture information about individual support needs
- Monitor assistive device status and availability
Monitoring and program targeting
The Disability Registry provides tools to support monitoring and program targeting using disability data. Programs can use registry information to identify eligible individuals or households and ensure that disability-related services and benefits reach those who need them.
- Identify persons with disabilities eligible for programs
- Support targeting of disability benefits and services
- Enable household-level analysis of disability data
- Generate reports and analytics for policy and program management
- Support evidence-based planning and monitoring
Underlying foundations
System interoperability
Comprehensive documentation explains how systems can be integrated, including API documentation, data format specifications and usage guidelines. This ensures that the platform can communicate effectively with different systems, improving the implementation and delivery of social protection programs.
- Comprehensive documentation including APIs
- Message queues
- Authentication and authorization mechanisms
- Error handling and logging
- Rigorous testing, validation and compliance checks
Data privacy and security
The platform can be easily adapted to comply with relevant data protection and privacy laws. Security controls and audits ensure that personal or sensitive data and transactions are protected. Through active engagement with the open-source community, our team has the latest information on privacy and security related to open-source software.
- Strong access controls and management
- Consent management
- Customizable audit logs
- Data encryption protocols
- Secure data sharing with third parties
