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STORY: UGANDA/BIRTH REGISTRATION
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SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/PORTUGUESE/NATS
DATELINE: 2-5 SEPTEMBER 2013, KAMPALA, UGANDA
1. Tilt down, poster on birth registration
2. Close up, newborn baby in the maternity ward
3. Med shot, maternity ward
4. Med shot, delegates from Angola during the study tour
5. Med shot, Pali Lehohla during the study tour
6. Med shot, delegates from Nigeria
7. Med shot, delegates interacting during the study tour
8. SOUNDBITE English) Pali Lehohla, South Africa Statistic Director:
“With new technologies, Africa can leap frog in a much shorter span of time and achieve the same that other countries have already achieved, but with centuries of investments in this area.”
9. Med shot, Lehohla civil registration expert
10. Med shot, delegates from India
11. Med shot, a delegate from Plan International
12. Med shot, mothers and children at Mityana Hospital
13. Med shot, poster on birth registration
14. Med shot, a health staff recording a birth
15. Med shot, mother signing the birth notification
16. Wide shot, mother sitting
17. Close up, computer screen showing database
18. Close up, administrator stamping birth certificate
19. Wide shot, admin handing certificate to mother
20. Wide shot, street in a remote village
21. Med shot, children walking across a street
22. Med shot, girl walking in the street
23. SOUNDBITE(English) Joel Sebakije, Parish Chief and notifier in Kiyuni sub country:
“Every information I want to edit, I want to revise, is on my phone. So it is portable. They have assisted us in terms of mobile birth registration because people they want to see my child has been registered using this technology. So the community has been very very happy.”
24. Various shots, Sebakje showing how Mobile Vital Record System works
25. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese), Guilaze Carla, Director of Registry and Notary, Mozambique:
“I grew up knowing the history of Uganda, a country that had a difficult past. But within 26 years, they managed to overcome many barriers in the field of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics, and they have done it relatively well. Their experience tells us that if we can capture all births then we can also help accelerate the development of Mozambique.”
26.Close up, mobil device
27. Closeup, more details of the system
28. Med shot, Sebakje dialing number
29. Tilt down, administrator signs a birth certificate
31. Tilt up, mother showing chid’s certificate
With more than half sub-Saharan children without registration, the time has come to fix the broken civil registration systems in the continent.
It is for that reason, civil registrars from 13 African countries recently gathered in Uganda, to learn from each other and to draw inspiration from the innovations Uganda is doing.
SOUNDBITE (English)Pali Lehohla, participant and South Africa Statistic Director: “With new technologies, Africa can leap frog in a much shorter span of time and achieve the same that other countries have already achieved, but with centuries of investments in this area.”
At this district Hospital in Mityana, they saw firsthand how Uganda’s birth registration has been integrated into its health services, quite a departure from most African countries where the two services are disconnected.
The records are then transferred through this web-based application to a government database server. Once verified by the hospital official, an official birth certificate is printed and handed over to the mother.
For the communities living in remote areas, the Mobile Vital Record System, developed with the help of UNICEF and Uganda Telecom, comes in handy.
SOUNDBITE (English), Joel Sebakije, Parish Chief and notifier in Kiyuni sub country: “
SOUNDBITE(Portuguese)Guilaze Carla, Director of Registry and Notary, Mozambique:
“I grew up knowing the history of Uganda, a country that had a difficult past. But within 26 years, they managed to overcome many barriers in the field of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics, and they have done it relatively well. Their experience tells us that if we can capture all births then we can also help accelerate the development in Mozambique.”
There are no shortcuts to fix a broken system, but Uganda’s experience has showed to other African countries, that with the aid of technology they too can advance their civil registration systems by leaps and bounds.
