OUR STRATEGY

Strategy and key strategic key focus areas

The National Social Security Fund is a Provident Fund established to recruit, collect from, invest for and pay out benefits to its members. The Fund pays out a lumpsum equivalent to the members accumulated savings once they qualify.

Key material matters and risks impacting achievement of Strategy

Adapting to the new normal
Changing saver/member expectations
Future fit organisation
Regulatory restrictions
Business/Strategic Risk

Changing employee and member expectations

Technology Risk

Emergence of a Digital lifestyle – Accelerating further automation

Business/Strategic Risk
Technology Risk

IT infrastructure upgrade

Cyber Risk

Unauthorised access to data and customer information impacting organisational resilience and reputation

Reputation Risk

Regulatory restrictions imposed by the NSSF Act to provide for midterm access impacting innovation will continue to have a negative impact on brand image

Strategy and key strategic focus areas

Core Purpose

Our purpose is to make lives better. We passionately dedicate ourselves to making saving a way of life, to enable more and more people to improve their well-being.

Our strategic matters are informed by the following aspirations

Providing world class service to our members

Achieving competitive returns

Increasing efficiencies to improve service delivery

Becoming the employer of choice

Underpinned by digital innovation

Strategic focus areas



Objective:
Increase Customer Satisfaction
  • Meeting customer needs
  • Improving service delivery
  • Removing pain points
  • Providing uninterrupted service


Objective:
Increase Profitability
  • Growing the Fund asset size
  • Improving cost efficiency
  • Investing prudently
  • Generate good returns


Objective:
Increase Productivity
  • Improving data quality
  • Reducing turnaround time
  • Enhancing technology impact
  • Improving governance, compliance & risk management


Objective:
Increase Staff Satisfaction
  • Investing in staff development
  • Enhancing talent management
  • Upskilling employees
  • Promoting performance culture

Measured through defined Key Performance Indicators to track performance included in the organisation’s Balanced Scorecard and cascading to employee scorecards. Reward and remuneration is linked to both individual and business performance.

2021 highlights

  • 86% client satisfaction
  • Uninterrupted service and successful communication through online and social media platforms
  • Partnership with commercial banks to increase service points (from 19 to 650)
  • Total assets of UGX 15.56Tn against a target of UGX 15Tn
  • Member Fund grew by 17% from UGX 13.06Tn in 2020 to UGX 15.30Tn
  • Income growth of 26%
  • Total income UGX 1.847Tn
  • Cost of Administration 1.06 %
  • Automated processes
  • 94% of member transactions were hosted digitally
  • Leveraging digital technology to provide autonomous and personalised experiences
  • Self registration for employees
  • Engagement score of 94%
  • Upskilling of employees to meet future needs
  • Significant investment in employee health and wellbeing
  • Enabling environment for remote working practices
  • Increased communication via digital channels