More than half of children in Guinea-Bissau do not have birth registration. The government announced Tuesday that it aims to change that reality by 2030 by strengthening the civil registration system and producing vital statistics.
Ensuring legal identity and statistical data is a key challenge highlighted at the opening of the workshop to discuss and verify data at national and regional level for the period 2018 to 2022.
The lack of official data is a situation that the Guinean government intends to change through a strategic program aimed at providing a legal identity for the entire population by 2030.
The strategy has the support of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and local leader Alessandra Casazza emphasizes the need for this joint work.
In Guinea-Bissau, he said, “about 46% of children under five have a birth certificate.”
He also emphasized that “accurate and complete data are essential for public policy development and decision-making.”
According to the Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Maria da Conceição Monteiro, “the biggest challenge is to make vital registration more reliable, more dynamic, more reliable and of better quality.”
Guinea-Bissau aims to provide everyone with legal personality, including birth registration, by 2030, strengthen statistical capacity and register at least 80% of deaths.
The President of the National Statistics Institute (INE), Roberto Vieira, explained at this meeting that the last population census was carried out in 2009.
Since then, the institute has used the “demographic forecasting method” to calculate the population, adding the natural balance (the difference between births and deaths) plus the migration balance (the difference between those leaving and entering the country) to the 2009 population.
The person in charge explained that this method does not provide reliable data because there are not enough records, birth and death certificates, especially from regions of the country outside the capital.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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