Introduction In the past decade, birth registration (BR) has come under the limelight as one of UNICEF’s four pillars of children’s rights programming and a target of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. [i] BR is officially defined by UNICEF (2005) as the “
the continuous, permanent and official recording of a child’s existence through an administrative process of the state and coordinated by a particular branch of government”. BR is a fundamental human right and an essential means of protecting a child’s right to an identity (UNICEF, 2005), besides being instrumental to ensure access to basic services and social protection benefits. In Nigeria, the registration of births is part of an effective Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) system, which...
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