The Social Register of Mauritius is a database of all potential beneficiaries of social programs. It is meant to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of social programs so that limited programme resources reach those who really deserve them. It has been designed to become an exhaustive and centralized database of social program beneficiaries with the following objectives:

• to better identify beneficiaries of social programs;
• to manage social programs in an integrated way;
• to better harmonise the criteria for the different social programs run by different Ministries; and
• to analyse cyclical and structural poverty reduction policies.

The SRM is an instrument to assist Government in identifying the beneficiaries of social programs and deciding the level of assistance for each beneficiary. It will also serve to evaluate existing social programs and improve performance and service delivery.