A memorandum of understanding was signed between the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), Directorate of Municipal Administration (DMA) of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and Plan Pakistan.
The MOU will standardise the vital statistics registration system, including birth registration at the DMA and link it with the national database. The data mine will be considered a role model for all NADRA Registration Centres.
The DMA is responsible for providing birth and death registration and issuance of related certificates to the residents of Islamabad. Currently, the DMA is providing these services from a standalone system that is not linked to the national database.
Plan Pakistan facilitated the MOU between both the government departments as Plan is working in Islamabad’s slums where approximately 30 percent of the children are unregistered while the situation is even worst in slums like Muslim Colony where only 24 percent of children are registered with NADRA.
Children in the federal capital will get their right of identity as citizens in the form of machine readable birth registration certificates after the process is streamlined by all the three parties concerned.
Plan Pakistan will strengthen the birth registration unit of the DMA and conduct public awareness campaigns in the slums where Plan is working.
NADRA will provide data entry software to the DMA and train the staff about component-wise data entry. It will provide support in the maintenance and recovery of the software. The DMA’s birth registration database will be linked with the National Data base and it will issue machine readable child birth registration certificates. Plan Pakistan Country Director Rashid Javed, NADRA DG Col (R) Khalid Khatak and CDA official Mansoor were present at the signing of the MoU.
