Kisan ID (Farmer’s Digital Identification Platform)

Developed by Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD) of Nepal in collaboration with the European Union (EU), the Kisan ID (Farmer’s Digital Identification) is a web and mobile app based digital platform for collecting digitial ID's by respective municipalities of Nepal. It helps in subsidy tracking, enable digital financial services, integrate to other governments digital systems and many other targeted supports to the farmer. The EU has provided technical assistance to MoALD in the design of system requirements that include the digital data collection tools for registration, verification, and authentication services, as well as key details around data backup, contingency planning, and data security/protection.

Lead (category)

Government agency

Name of initiative lead (and partners)

Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD) in collaboration with the European Union (EU)

Categories of Digital initiative deliverables

Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery

ICT products/solutions and services by category

Digital Finance

Digital Agriculture

Non ICT products and services (deliverables)

Business and governance structure

Being implemented in Nepal by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD) in collaboration with the European Union (EU).

DI ICT-deliverables format

Mobile applications

Web-based platform

Interactive data exchanges

Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)

Farmers

Government

Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders

Currently, 1.5 million farmers have been digitized and registered in the system which is around 35% of total farmer population. Source: Developer website

Digital Initiative development Stage

Fully operational - Growing and expanding stage

Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries

Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)

National

All over Nepal

On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)

Main DI webpage

Other useful link

Link to Digital village

Link to Digital solution