Kenya’s birth registration reforms set the stage for automatic national ID issuance
In the near future, Kenya will introduce a system whereby citizens who attain the age of 18 will automatically be…
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Ethiopia, UNICEF look to scale up birth registration, Fayda ID adoption
Officials of Ethiopia’s National ID Program (NIDP), the Immigration and Citizenship Services (ICS), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)…
New civil registration law refocuses Cameroon’s push for SDG 16.9 legal ID target
Ornela Ndip is a 25-year-old internally displaced person (IDP) who fled her hometown of Kembong, Manyu Division, South West Region…
Brazil’s Infant.ID sees bump in biometric birth registration, national rollout expected
Infant.ID has surpassed 10,000 infant biometric registrations in Brazil’s state of Mato Grosso as the company prepares for the establishment…
Philippines pilots back-to-back birth and national ID registration for newborns
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has piloted back-to-back birth and National ID registration. The pilot strategy means the PSA is…
Birth registration progresses globally but big gaps remain in Sub Saharan Africa: UNICEF
About 8 in 10 children globally below the age of five have had a birth registration around the world in…
Aboriginal digital ID offers Indigenous Australians pathway to essential services
There are more than 200,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Australia who lack a birth certificate. Without this vital…
Cameroon introduces draft laws on civil registration reform, data protection
The government of Cameroon has brought two bills to parliament which are vital for the country’s digital transformation journey. They…
ID programs in Niger, Nigeria, Togo to improve wellbeing of vulnerable children
Different programs to issue digital ID and birth certificates to underprivileged children in a Nigerian state and a region of…
Namibia pushes for inclusive digital identity systems through legal identity governance
Namibia is advancing digital inclusion by working closely with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to establish legal identity systems,…
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