Background Birth registration is vital to provide legal identity and access to essential
services. Worldwide, approximately 166 million children under five years (just under 25%) …

Background Birth registration marks a child's right to identity and is the first step to
establishing citizenship and access to services. At the population level, birth registration …

Background Birth registration is a crucial aspect of ensuring that children have access to
their rights and benefits, including health care, education, and citizenship. In sub-Saharan …

Background There are an estimated 35 million unregistered children in Indonesia. To
understand ways to best leverage existing health system-related resources and ensure …

Objectives Angola has a high burden of unregistered children and efforts to increase birth-
registration coverage have not yielded the desired progress. This study aimed to examine …

Background Birth registration is a child's first right. Registration of live births, stillbirths and
deaths is foundational for national planning. Completeness of birth registration for live births …

Over the past two decades UNICEF has been the most visible advocate of birth registration
globally. In 2015 the world community launched the Sustainable Development Agenda …

Objectives Official data on birth is important to monitor the specific targets of SDGs. About
2.7 million children under age five years do not have official birth registration document in …

Birth registration is understood as a childLs Lfoundation rightL (UNICEF, 2015, p. 3). Ideally,
birth registration provides a legal identity linked to country of origin and rights to state …

This report considers civil registration throughout life, and includes evidence from
interventions aimed at improving registration at multiple levels. Strategies include greater …