Concepts

Address

A structured physical or postal location used to reach a person, household, or organization. Addresses combine spatial and administrative components s…

Agent

An entity that can act within a public delivery process: a person, an organization, or a software system. Agent is the shared supertype for actors tha…

BiometricSample

A biometric measurement captured from a person, such as a fingerprint image, iris scan, or facial photograph. Each record represents a single capture …

ConsentRecord

ConsentRecord documents the lawful basis for processing a data subject's personal data. Despite the name, consent is only one of six possible legal ba…

DeliveryItem

A line item describing a specific commodity and quantity within a delivery or voucher. Used to represent food baskets, supply kits, and other composit…

Event

Something that happens at a specific time or over a bounded period within a delivery system. Event is the shared supertype for records that capture oc…

Family

A kinship network of persons connected by blood, marriage, or adoption. A family is defined by relational ties, not by co-residence or shared budget: …

Farm

An economic unit of agricultural production under single management, comprising all livestock kept and all land used wholly or partly for agricultural…

FunctioningProfile

A point-in-time record of functioning data collected about a person using a defined instrument from the Washington Group family: WG-SS (Short Set), WG…

Group

An abstract collection of persons that serves as the base for concrete group types such as Household, Family, and Farm. Groups are linked to their mem…

GroupMembership

The link between a Person and a Group, carrying the role the person plays within that group membership (such as head, spouse, child, owner, operator, …

HazardEvent

An event or condition that may disrupt the delivery of public services or affect the well-being of a population. Covers natural hazards (floods, droug…

HealthFacility

A service point where clinical or preventive health services are delivered, such as a hospital, health center, health post, dispensary, specialty clin…

Household

A social and economic unit of one or more persons who share food and other essentials for living. The operational definition varies across countries a…

Identifier

A coded value assigned to an entity within an identification scheme. Identifiers disambiguate entities such as persons, groups, locations, administrat…

IdentityDocument

A physical or digital document that asserts one or more identifiers about a party (person, household, or group). Distinct from the identifier itself: …

InKindDelivery

A record of a direct physical distribution of goods or services from a program to a beneficiary, with no financial instrument involved. Covers food di…

Instrument

A defined tool used to collect information about a subject: a survey form, questionnaire, screening protocol, or measurement procedure. Instruments ar…

Location

A named geographic or administrative area, such as a region, district, commune, or village. Location captures where a household or event is situated w…

Organization

A legally or administratively identifiable body that can act within a public delivery process: a government agency, ministry, NGO, UN agency, statisti…

Party

A person or organized group of persons that can be identified, enrolled in programs, and receive benefits or services. Party is the shared supertype f…

PaymentEvent

A record of a direct monetary transfer from a program to a beneficiary. Covers bank transfer, mobile money, cash, agent network, and prepaid card chan…

Person

The unique individual human being who is a subject of record within a social protection system. Person is the persistent, indivisible unit of identity…

PrivacyNotice

PrivacyNotice is the artefact presented to a data subject describing which personal data will be processed, by whom, for what purposes, under which le…

Profile

A point-in-time record of data collected about a subject using a defined instrument. Profile is the shared supertype for SocioEconomicProfile and Func…

RegistrationOffice

A service point where civil or administrative registration services are delivered, such as a civil registration office, a district branch, a mobile re…

Relationship

A link defining the social, legal, or administrative connection between an individual and another person or group. Three broad types exist: kinship (b…

School

A service point where formal or non-formal education is delivered, such as a primary school, secondary school, vocational training center, or early ch…

ScoringEvent

A discrete event in which a scoring rule is applied to inputs about a subject to produce a score or a band. Inputs may be one or more Profile records …

ScoringRule

A persistent set of rules, formulas, or cutoffs used to turn input data into a score or a band. Scoring rules include proxy means test (PMT) formulas,…

ServicePoint

A named physical point where an organization delivers a public service. ServicePoint is domain-agnostic: it covers health facilities, schools, water p…

SocioEconomicProfile

A point-in-time record of socio-economic and living-conditions data about a household or person, collected through a registration survey or questionna…

SoftwareAgent

A software product or system that performed a step in a delivery process, such as a scoring engine that computed a proxy means test score or a rule en…

Voucher

A redeemable instrument issued to a beneficiary as fulfillment of a benefit entitlement. A voucher has a distinct lifecycle: creation, issuance, redem…

VoucherRedemption

A record of a single redemption transaction against a voucher. Each VoucherRedemption captures one visit to a vendor or agent where part or all of a v…

WaterPoint

A service point where drinking water or household water is made accessible to a population, such as a borehole, public tap or standpipe, protected dug…

BenefitSchedule

A program-level definition of a benefit stream that specifies the modality, amount, frequency, and time period over which benefits are provided. A pro…

EligibilityDecision

A formal determination of whether a subject meets a program's criteria based on assessed conditions. A single scoring event or profile can support mul…

Enrollment

The administrative process of registering an eligible person or household as an active beneficiary of a program. Budget constraints and capacity limit…

Entitlement

An instance of a recognized right of a specific beneficiary to receive a benefit. Each entitlement typically corresponds to one disbursement period, b…

Grievance

A record of a complaint, appeal, correction request, or misconduct allegation raised through a program's grievance redress mechanism. It captures form…

Program

A government or institutional social protection intervention that provides benefits to eligible individuals or households based on defined criteria. A…

Referral

A structured process of linking a subject to an external program, service, or provider to address identified needs. Referrals span a spectrum from pas…

Adoption

A legal act by which one or more persons acquire the status of parent to a child, creating a parent-child relationship that did not previously exist i…

Birth

A live birth, meaning the complete expulsion or extraction of a product of conception from its mother, irrespective of duration of pregnancy, which af…

Certificate

A document issued from a civil status record or vital event that attests to the event for external use. Distinct from the underlying record: certifica…

CivilStatusAnnotation

A marginal annotation (mention marginale) added to a civil status record to reflect a later vital event or administrative change. Examples include a m…

CivilStatusDocument

An administrative document that records civil-status facts about one or more persons. Distinct from the concepts (Birth, Marriage, Death, etc.) that d…

CivilStatusRecord

The official written record (acte) held by a civil registration authority that attests to a vital event. In civil-law traditions, this is the persiste…

Death

The permanent disappearance of all evidence of life at any time after a live birth has taken place. Captures the deceased person, the cause and manner…

FamilyRegister

A record that tracks a family unit over time, centered on a head of household. Members are reached through the linked Family, which exposes GroupMembe…

FetalDeath

Death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction of a product of conception from its mother, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy. Distinct fr…

Legitimation

The act by which a child previously born outside marriage acquires the legal status of a child born within marriage, typically following the subsequen…

Marriage

The legal union of two persons under the applicable law. Captures the two parties, witnesses, and the type of marriage (civil, religious, customary, c…

MarriageTermination

The legal end of a marriage while both parties are alive, whether by divorce (dissolution of a valid marriage) or annulment (declaration that the marr…

Parent

A crvs/Person subtype that captures a parental role alongside the inherited person-of-record properties. Used on Birth, Adoption, PaternityRecognition…

PaternityRecognition

A formal act in which a parent, typically a father, establishes legal parentage for a child born outside marriage. Takes place before a registrar, not…

Person

A temporal snapshot of a Person as observed at the time of a vital event. Carries the same demographic properties as Person, but frozen at event time …

VitalEvent

An event of legal and statistical importance that marks a change in a person's civil status, such as birth, death, fetal death, marriage, divorce, ann…