THE government has pledged to fast track the establishment of a Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System that will ensure permanent storage of all citizens’ records, including their movements.
He said implementation of the system was crucial for the country, which had for many years lagged behind in births and deaths registrations, making it difficult for the country to carry out development programmes with reliable statistics of its people.
But before full implementation of the system, Prof Kabudi said the ministry would review the Birth and Death Registration Act and make necessary amendments for accommodatissued with birth certificates.
The RITA Board Chairman, Prof Hamis Dihenga, said the 2012 National Census placed the two regions as among areas where poor births registration was glaring, with Mara recording only 71 children in 1000 and Simiyu registering only 50 children in 1000 births. However, he said RITA was facing a number of challenges in ensuring comprehensive and timely registration of children using the new system as it faced acute shortage of manpower.
“We have slightly over 300 staff but to be more efficient we need twice that number. However, we are determined to ensure that the exercise is conducted as efficiently as possible,” he said.
Over 750,000 children are lined up for registration in the next two months for the two regions with records showing that over 150,000 of them had been registered since the exercise started on March 14. Continues on Page 3 The global percentage of deaths caused by NCDs Heart Attack Cancer Asthma Diabetes ...It is on the critical battle against non-communicable diseases ing the new system.
“We have already started working on the proposed amendment so that the new Act becomes fully operational,” he said. He lauded the ongoing underfive birth registration process in nine regions now joined by Mara and Simiyu, directing registration officers to observe ethics governing the entire exercise and ensure that non-citizens were not registered.
He issued a strong warning against violation of the directive, directing that people who received and hosted illegal immigrants should be reported to the authorities, for legal action to be taken..
The minister commended development partners UNICEF, Canada and Tigo who, in collaboration with the Registration, Insolvency and Trusteeship Agency (RITA) for their support in the venture in nine regions so far. More than 3.5 million children would ultimately be registered and
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