Executive Summary
The world is facing an identity crisis. A total of 500 million children have no official identification. They are invisible and uncounted. If they do not exist, they do not have rights, cannot be protected under the law, and struggle to access public services.
For people to count, they must first be counted. That is what a CRVS system does, recording major life events such as births, deaths, and marriages. A quality CRVS system is critical to a country delivering services, raising revenues, and progressing on more than half of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, yet 100 countries lack functioning CRVS systems. Many systems are costly, paper-based, operate separately from other systems in the country, and have structural deficiencies that make it difficult for individuals to access their rights.
By scaling a holistic digital registration model, OpenCRVS believes that we can aid additional governments to register all births and deaths over the next five years, setting an example for other countries.
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Accomplishments
With the uncertainty of COVID-19 and the scope of this global pandemic, it is even more urgent and necessary to address the world’s identity crisis. OpenCRVS's greatest success in this time has been our adaptability to provide remote and online program implementation methods, build government capacity, and research, test, and design resilient CRVS systems for protracted crises.
