The govt body fighting against extortion in Cameroon’s civil registration sector
Adeline N., a mother of four, resident in the town of Bamenda in the North West Region of Cameroon, secured…
civil registration
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Honduras obtains $40M World Bank loan to digitize CRVS, expand ID verification services
Honduras is set to receive funding from the World Bank to the tune of $40 million to implement a project…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines looks to MOSIP for national ID pilot
The southern Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines is planning to pilot its national digital identity system…
Somali Cabinet okays CRVS bill, seeks digital ID collaboration with Ethiopia
Somalia’s Cabinet Ministers have approved a draft civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) legislation, a major step forward in the…
Nigeria launches digital CRVS platform built by private partner
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Nigeria has unveiled a digital Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) platform that is expected…
OpenCRVS
OpenCRVS is an open-source civil registration system that can be configured for a country in a week.
Cameroon begins campaign to issue 500k birth certificates to undocumented children
The pilot phase of a project is underway to issue 500,000 birth certificates to children who do not yet have…
UNICEF praises easier birth registration for Nigerians through digitization
There are more parents in Nigeria now taking their children for birth registration as the country trials a digital birth…
Rwanda seeks contractor to digitize civil registration archiving system
Rwanda has launched a call to tender for the digitization of the country’s civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) archiving…
UNECA targets digital ID interoperability in Africa to accelerate socio-economic progress
Representatives of governments, policymakers, experts, and stakeholders from Africa have made a plethora of suggestions on how digital ID interoperability…
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