Identity verification
built for Uganda 
National ID (NIRA), Passport and Driver's Licence on one session, screened against Ugandan regulatory watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Uganda.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Ugandan identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on mobile-money-connected fintechs and digital wallets, NIRA card and Driver's Licence forgery, and AML pressure on cross-border remittance corridors with Kenya, Tanzania, and South Sudan. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Anti-Money Laundering Act 2013
- Data Protection and Privacy Act 2019
- National Payment Systems Act 2020
- Bank of Uganda KYC and CDD Guidelines
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Uganda.
BoU
Bank of Uganda — central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, payment service providers, and electronic-money issuers under the National Payment Systems Act 2020.
CMA Uganda
Capital Markets Authority — capital-markets supervisor for licensed brokers, fund managers, and investment advisors. Issues watchlist warnings on unlicensed promoters.
FIA
Financial Intelligence Authority — Uganda's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the Anti-Money Laundering Act 2013.
PDPO
Personal Data Protection Office — enforces the Data Protection and Privacy Act 2019. Governs every identity verification on Ugandan residents.
NIRA
National Identification and Registration Authority — issuer of the National ID Card and the National Identification Number. Maintains the authoritative national identity register.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- National ID (NIRA), Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), Driver's Licence, and Voter Card.
- Returns the name, NIRA number, date of birth, place of issue, and expiry.
- National ID (NIRA)
- Passport — chip read on e-Passport
- Driver's Licence · Voter Card
Match the face. Prove it's a real person..
Selfie confirmed live and matched against the ID portrait.
- Duplicate check: 1:N face search across existing users. Free.
- Active liveness ($0.15) for elevated-risk flows — user turns or blinks.
- Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
- Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.
1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists — plus Ugandan watchlists:
- Parliament of Uganda — PEP Level 1 — Members of Parliament and senior legislative officials.
- Uganda National Council for Science and Technology — PEP Level 2 — statutory-authority officials.
- Kabale District Local Government — PEP Level 2 — district-level government chairs and officials.
- Local Government of Napak District — PEP Level 4 — district local-government entries.
- Ministry of Local Government — PEP Level 4 — ministry-level senior officials.
- UGPPDA — Ugandan Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority — debarred contractors and procurement-enforcement signals.
- Front Line Defenders — Uganda adverse media — international adverse-media coverage of Ugandan persons of concern.
- Capital Market Authority (CMA Uganda) — Warnings — regulatory warnings on unlicensed promoters and enforcement actions.
Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.
Bind every check to one audited session.
Uganda does not currently expose a public consumer government API for civil-registry lookups — no database validation service exists for the NIRA national population register.
- The National ID is read end-to-end on the hosted flow: full OCR of the National Identification Number, name, date of birth, place of issue, expiry, and template authenticity check.
- Wire ID Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match + AML into a single workflow. The full bundle anchors at $0.33 per session with a tamper-evident audit log a FIA-supervised compliance team can hand to BoU under the AML Act 2013.
- An authoritative-source NIRA lookup is on the upcoming Database Validation roadmap — Enterprise customers can talk to sales to wire it into their workflow.
Bind every check to one audited session — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Uganda document Didit accepts.
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