2.8B still excluded from digital ID as new gender gaps emerge: World Bank
An estimated 2.8 billion people worldwide remain shut out from government-recognized digital ID systems, creating what the World Bank describes as…
SDG 16.9
UN Sustainable Development Goal 16.9 calls for legal identity for all people worldwide, including birth registration, by 2030.
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…
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…
Fayda digital ID critical for Ethiopia’s five-year refugee inclusion strategy
Ethiopia’s national digital ID (Fayda) has been described as a critical tool in the implementation of a government framework aimed…
Malawi reaches 13.5M digital IDs as universal coverage comes into view
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has hailed Malawi’s legal identity drive, with its continued support, which has seen more…
Research calls for document portability to tackle legal ID crisis facing migrants
Researchers have urged countries to build interoperable, resilient, and family-sensitive foundational identity storage systems in order to better respond to…
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)…
