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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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…
Self brings identity verification to universal basic compute initiative
As governments begin treating AI compute as a public resource, identity verification is becoming the mechanism for allocating it. UNICEF…
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…
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…
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)…
Cabo Verde’s CRVS-ID reforms drive near-universal birth registration
Cabo Verde has increased birth registration to 99 percent within five years after linking its civil registration and national identity…
UNICEF unveils guide for design of DPI systems that work better for children
Sometimes, countries design digital public infrastructure (DPI) systems that either harm or totally exclude children from enjoying some of their…
Lesotho, UNICEF partner to develop MOSIP-based integrated national ID
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) will support the government of Lesotho in the development of an integrated national digital…
UNICEF in search of firm to co-design youth digital credentialing system
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), under its Generation Unlimited (GenU) initiative, is looking for a company to create and…
