Kenya’s birth registration reforms set the stage for automatic national ID issuance
A wise strategic orientations on ID in #Kenya 🦊 , where the authorities have understood that a systematic registration of individuals to a Foundational ID without a vetting process does not threaten national security but instead reinforce it. 💡
On the opposite, it will reinforce 🛡️ the capacity to know who has a legal ID and would you should help to have one, this is the principles of Foundational ID : identify people to access service 🎯 , access to legal ID being one of them. 🆔
Kenya’s Interior Cabinet Secretary said : "The fact that we removed extra vetting does not mean that we have compromised on security of the country. The process that we are going to apply now of identifying who has gotten an ID or who has not, is to leverage the existing data across the board to know who you are” 👍
But a foundational ID without a legal ID just displace the issue ⚠️ we try to tackle with SDD objective SDG 16:9, the effort on legal ID remains to be done but will be facilitated 🚀 thanks to the foundational ID.
For example Benin has been following this model, and the strategy of Prodigy program in Madagascar is aligned with that too 🏆
In Kenya, the vetting process would be held then during childhood 🧒 as it can takes time to be achieved for unregistered people.
Paul Macharia · Gordon Ondego · Julien P. · Carolin Frankenhauser · Nelson Kinoti · Jérôme Buchler · Slavina Pancheva · Julia Clark · Dr. Joseph J. Atick
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