The World Bank approved on September 29^th, 2020 a $140 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA) Scale Up Facility and a $3 million grant from the Global Financing Facility to strengthen the country’s Identity Management system, streamline and digitize key services, and improve the government’s capacity to deliver services in selected sectors, such as health.

The project will focus on creating an effective and secure Identity Management system, notably by modernizing the interoperable civil registry and national identity databases. As part of this effort, the project will implement the National Civil Registration and Identification Center, simplified registration and ID management procedures, a unique identifier number from birth, and improved security of data. This will provide the necessary infrastructure and processes to authenticate data across government services, enabling easier and faster use of data for the provision of services. It will also facilitate the regular reporting of vital events for demographic and vital statistics purposes and strengthen the role of the health sector to contribute to timely registration of vital events […]

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