Cameroon restarts birth registration drive, using schools as gateway to legal identity
The government of Cameroon will restart a campaign in September to issue birth certificates to one million school children who…
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Tanzania pushes CRVS-ID integration as birth registration becomes a DPI layer
Tanzania is stepping up efforts to link its civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system with the national identity database,…
UNICEF urges governments to use schools to close global birth registration gaps
UNICEF has new operational guidance that calls on governments to leverage schools as a way to register millions of older…
Birth registration emerges as foundation for digital public infrastructure
Governments and development partners are increasingly pushing to make birth registration and vital statistics (CRVS) a foundational layer of digital…
Cameroon: When birth certificates represent children who do not exist
In the world of legal identity, it is said that a child without a birth certificate does not exist, but…
South Sudan plans interoperable birth registration, digital ID systems
South Sudan authorities say they are working out plans to digitize the country’s civil registration and national ID systems and…
South Sudan must fortify legal framework to close huge national ID gap: ID4D
South Sudan has been urged to take some urgent steps including adjustments to its national identity legal framework in order…
Madagascar’s last-mile civil registration strategy closing digital ID inclusion gap
Madagascar is achieving a foundational inclusion milestone with a growing number of digital ID enrollments, thanks in large part to…
Kenya moves to institutionalize trust as digital government services expands
Lawmakers in Kenya have consented to the setting up of a dedicated body dubbed the National Cybersecurity Agency (NCSA) that…
UNICEF seeks partner to expand birth registration, legal identity in Tanzania
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has launched an expression of interest call to select a national non-governmental organization (NGO)…
