Policy Priority Area 3: Right to Citizenship and Identity
Objective: All Partner States enhance birth and death registration systems
3.1. Strengthen the Birth and Death Registration Systems in all Partner States
- Carry out an Assessment of the gaps in Birth and Death Registration Systems, especially in relation to marginalized groups or districts with particularly low birth registration rates.
- Raise awareness on all Civil registration
- Establish and strengthen electronic mobile registration systems in the relevant institutions
3.2. Ensure that each child has a nationality
- Conduct a study on the impact of lack of nationality affecting children the EAC region
- Establish electronic identity documents for all registered children among all Partner States (2018 – 2019)
- Develop regional/national action plans that undertake relevant actions under the Global Action Plan
- Build awareness on safeguards to prevent statelessness among children
- Build capacity of legal professionals and the justice sector on statelessness, citizenship and nationality issues