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Uganda
Uganda's Ndaga Muntu national ID is required for services, with mass enrolment and renewal drives in 2024-2025. A court case by civil society over exclusion is ongoing. The central bank is studying a CBDC.
Digital ID · Goal 16.9
Digital ID in Uganda
- Program
- National ID (Ndaga Muntu), NIRA
- Status
- Mandatory for daily life
- National ID card
- ID card compulsory
- Biometrics
- Yes
NIRA ran an enrolment drive from 27 September 2024 aiming at 17.2 million people 17 and over, and a renewal and registration campaign from May 2025 targeting about 33 million people. A 2020 NYU report estimated up to a third of adults lacked an ID and that it is needed for health care, voting, bank accounts and phones.
Digital money · Goal 8.10
Central bank digital currency
- Status
- Research
Bank of Uganda began preliminary CBDC studies in 2022; the HRF tracker lists it as experimental and says it moved to that phase in 2025.
On the record
What has happened, newest first
- 2025-05Rolling it out
NIRA began a mass renewal and registration campaign. ID Tech ↗
- 2024-09Rolling it out
NIRA began a nationwide ID enrolment drive. Mobile ID World ↗
- 2023-03Pushback
The High Court admitted expert input from Access Now, ARTICLE 19 and CIPESA in the digital ID exclusion case. CIPESA ↗
UN and WHO
How Uganda has voted
- WHO
- Accepted the 2024 rule changes
- Pandemic Agreement (May 2025)
- No recorded objection
- Migration compact (Dec 2018)
- Voted yes
- Paris climate deal
- Party
- SDG Index 2026
- 55.5 · rank 144 of 169
- Progress reports to the UN (VNRs)
- 3
Sovereignty score
How the -2 adds up
- -2Digital ID required for banking, phones or daily life source ↗
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People pushing back
Groups and cases in Uganda
- ISER, Unwanted Witness and HEPI v. Attorney General and NIRACivil society groups sued in 2022 saying the mandatory ID excludes people from social benefits and health services. source ↗
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