2. The higher the HDI, the lower the rates of under
registration of births
3. ID-Management chain to ensure legal identity
Birth
certificate
Other
attributes
Verifiable
and unique,
legal identity
Civil Registration
Civil Identification
Unique personal number
Biometrics
Age of individual
Levelofsecurity
Identity token
Timely reporting of vital event
4. The role of the Civil Registry
Civil Registry
Enrollment*
Emits
(Birth, marriage, death)
Certificates
Informs
Vital Statistics
Must be able to guarantee
veracity of certificates
*Enrollment=
registration of vital
events: births, deaths,
marriage, divorce,
adoptions.
5. Is the civil registry the ugly duckling of public
institutions?
6. Supply side issues
• Lack of information about importance of civil registry
• Decision makers not well informed
• Outdated legal frameworks
• Cumbersome procedures
• Institutional weaknesses and asymmetries
• Inadequate economic resources
• Limited institutional presence
• Unsystematic and unsustainable technological solutions
• Human resource limitations
7. Foundations for effective identity management
ICT
Use of standards ISO,
IEEE, ICAO
POLICY
Buy-in from decision makers
– and citizens
LEGAL FRAMEWORK
Revision and update of legal
framework governing CR&CI
8. Conclusions I
• Develop National Identity Management Policy
– Id-M is a sovereign responsibility
– IFIs and other donors should have catalytic role
– No cookie cutter solution
• Coordinate with other public services
– Hospitals—vaccination centers
– Statistical agency
– Primary schools
– Ministry of Social affairs/gender
– Ministry of Planning and/or Finance
9. Conclusions II
• Shorten the distance to the civil registries
– Creation/redistribution of civil registries
– Information campaigns—impact evaluation
– Cultural sensitivity
• Develop communication strategies
• More research – better data – better results
– What cannot be measured cannot be improved
10. Identity management in the IDB
• Since 2011: Regional birth registration indicator
• Our work is guided by Institutional Strategy: Institutions for
growth and social development where one of the pillars is
recognized as: Registries for social and economic growth.
• Social and environmental safeguard screening of all lending
projects to promote: Legal identity for all
11. Some encouraging results from IDB projects:
• The IDB has promoted of inclusion of question on registration and
identity documents in surveys and censuses since 2000.
• Under registration of births dropped from ~20% to ~10% in 10yrs
• Argentina: Plan Familia CCT (USD 1,000M): Reduction of under
registration from reduced from15 to 10% in the period 2004-2009
(Source Ministry of Social Development annual report)
• Ecuador: Modernization of Civil Registry (USD 78M) from
dysfunctional to highly respected civil identification system in three
years.
• Uruguay: Seamless integration of CR-VS-Civil identification (CI)-
Social services
• Peru : best practices in CR and CI made the Registry Agency more
trusted than that Catholic Church and helped save more than USD
260M (2009-11) by better focusing the public sector programs.
(Source Ministry of Economy)
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