DBR Digital Birth Rigistration

日期 : Jun 2018 - 现在

The Digital Birth Registration tool is created by Telenor Pakistan, together with its partners Unicef and local governments in Punjab and Sindh provinces. During the pilot phase alone, birth registration in Pakistan increased from 30 to 90% in just 6 months; nearly 50% of the registered children were girls. Scale-up is now under way and the system has registered more than 21,000 children. The ambition is to register 700,000 children in 2018 covering a total of 9 districts in Punjab and Sindh provinces. Earlier, the birth registration process was cumbersome and required considerable amounts of time to complete, resulting in a situation where parents usually opted to avoid the process altogether and their children remained unregistered. Another reason for low registration rates stemmed from a lack of awareness about the benefits of birth registration. UNICEF and Government of Sindh Launch Digital Birth Registration project in 5 districts Karachi - 30th September 2016: The Local Government Department, Government of Sindh in partnership with UNICEF launched the Digital Birth Registration project here today, to upscale the registration of children as a measure of safeguarding their basic right for an identity. The project which was initially piloted in Thatta during 2015, is now being extended to Badin and Naushero Feroze in the coming year, while planning has been done to further expand it to Umerkot & Tharparkar by 2018. The project uses innovative methods to improve birth registration rates for children through the use of mobile phone technology. A pilot was conducted in two Union Councils of Thatta with the partnership of UNICEF, Telenor and departments of Local Government and Health. The intervention has deemed highly encouraging results, showing that 94 per cent of births are now being registered in these Union Councils, within the first 60 days of birth in accordance with the law.