Quest to ensure #everychild is #visible
#UNICEFCameroon with Ministry of Decentralization and Local Development (#Minddevel) organised first ever Mayor’s conference on birth registration. Over 600 participants including 360 mayors united with one common goal : to promote universal birth registration and tackle the backlog of millions of #children without #birthcertificates. Cornelius Williams gave the keynote speech providing inspiration on how to achieve #SDG16.9 through decentralisation, inter-operability and digitisation.
Key outcomes included :
– Set of recommendations including promising practices approved;
– Mayor’s Chart encompassing a roadmap adopted;
– Consensus on using catch-up birth registration in #schools ;
– All actors agreed to be #champions ; and
– #Myname campaign was launched.
Child Identity Protection (CHIP) is excited to see the political will to achieve #legalidentity for #everychild in #cameroon. May this #momentum #trigger a #domino #effect across the #region so that no child is left behind.
#hatsoff to #UNICEFCameroon Georges Bissiongol, Casimira Benge, Saly D., Juliette Haenni, Nadine Perrault, Sharmila Pillai, Mayang Alexis, etc. for this #mayorsforum fit for a #royalwedding.
Further information : UNICEF Cameroon https://www.unicef.org/wca/universal-birth-registration-challenge-cameroon
UNICEF WCARO-CHIP PAC https://child-identity.org/unicef-west-and-central-africa-regional-office-enters-into-formal-partnership-with-chip-to-improve-birth-registration/
