24/01/2023
Birth Certificate Acquisition:
Globally, an estimated 1 billion people cannot officially prove their identity and 47% of those are children without a birth certificate.
Birth registration is an essential child right and a critical tool for effective protection from child labour, child marriage, sexual exploitation, and trafficking. Since 2012 HDF has supported Plan International to deliver birth registration to children in Sierra Leone and Liberia – nearly 1 million children have been registered in both countries. However, the global need remains vast.
Birth certificates are important as it is to authenticate one's identity and nationality; to gain access to health care and social services; access to education; access to inherit property; prevent child exploitation; access to legal work; for driver's license, passport, to open bank account, and register to vote.
In the past 10 years there has been an overall increase in global birth registration rates of children under five from 58% to 65%, however more than 100 countries still do not have well-functioning CRVS (Civil Registration and Vital Statistic) systems in place to register key life events (WHO, World Bank Group 2014).
At Cliffmelvyn Company Limited we help liaised with the Birth and Death Registry to help registered unregistered people, those whose birth certificates are lost or stolen to get them replacement.
