Integration of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics and Identity Management Systems : Botswana Success Story
The initiative of a case study on Botswana’s successful integration of civil and identification registers comes against a backdrop of major continental and global efforts to accelerate improvement in the area of civil registration. The national ide...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/963541495179518711/Botswana-Integration-of-civil-registration-and-vital-statistics-and-identity-management-systems-Botswana-success-story http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28079 |
| Summary: | The initiative of a case study on
Botswana’s successful integration of civil and
identification registers comes against a backdrop of major
continental and global efforts to accelerate improvement in
the area of civil registration. The national identification
system (NIS) is linked with other government systems such as
the elections system, the social benefits registration
system (SOBERS), the government payroll, the transport
system, and others to facilitate service delivery because a
person’s identity serves as a gateway for accessing
services. In addition, through this link the NIS is updated
in real-time when a death occurs and the status of the
registered citizen is automatically changed from live to
deceased, and this update is imported to all other
interfaced government systems in real-time. Civil
registration is a credible source from which vital
statistics in Botswana can be generated and was used
previously to generate population reports. The creation of
one department to provide civil and national registration
headed by a single Registrar for both civil and national
registration brought about benefits of synchronization of
processes and immediate decision-making. Furthermore, having
an institutional framework in place facilitates the smooth
implementation of civil registration and vital statistics
(CRVS) and identity management (ID-M) through a network of
offices strategically placed across the country to ensure
that services are brought closer to the people. |
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