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REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE. Registrar General's Department. EXPERIENCE OF LINKING SRVS AND NATIONAL ID SYSTEMS – ZIMBABWE. 10-02-2015. REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE. Ministry of Home Affairs – responsible for Civil registration the through Registrar General’s Department.
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REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE Registrar General's Department EXPERIENCE OF LINKING SRVS AND NATIONAL ID SYSTEMS – ZIMBABWE 10-02-2015
REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE • Ministry of Home Affairs – responsible for Civil registration the through Registrar General’s Department. • Mandate: Registration of Births & Deaths; National I.Ds; Passports; Citizenship; Marriages and Cattle Brands. • Civil Registration is highly decentralised. – 10 Provinces, 75 district and 206 suboffices. • Manual System – We had stand alone sections. • No linkages of individual’s documents.
REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE Computerised Population System Service for Government Departments Birth Registration Population Database of ZimbabweZPRS Cattle Brands Marriage Registration Issuance of National I.Ds. Passport Issuance Citizenship Registration Death Registration
REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE Application areas for a National ID Card Number • NationalRegistration • Employment • Income Tax Purposes • Insurance purposes • Pension • Births Registration • DeathsRegistration • Health Services • Solemnisation of Marriages • Deceased Estates • Citizenship Registration • Banking Services • Social Security • Voters Registration • Accidents • Passport Issuance • The ID Number is the Permanent Voters Number • Thoroughfare • Drivers licence • Grain Marketing • The ID Number is now allocated to newly born child, thus, from birth to death • Deeds Registrations • Examination and School Examination Entry National ID Card • Immigration
REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE Zimbabwe Population Registration System Challenges: • Lack of adequate network infrastructure • Lack of adequate office infrastructure • Staff resistant to new innovations
REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE ZPRS: INTERGRATED COMPUTERISED SYSTEM • Linkages of documents: Birth-ID-Passport-Death. • Birth registration creates family tree. • Marriage registration: links Spouses to Marriage Officer and Institution. Also links divorces. • For Brands, links cattle to owner. • Eliminates issues of double registration. • Death registration: No longer possible to give services except death certificate • .Vital Statistics.
REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE SECURITY OF SYSTEM: • Users of system have usernames and passwords. • Privileges / roles related only to duties of individual officer. • Audit trail and history • Security of facilities and hardware. • Also improved security of documents: i.e. machine readable passport; machine readable I.D.
REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE Zimbabwe Population Registration System eGovernment Services: • Connectivity to: Mobile telephone providers • Pensions offices • Government Salaries Services Bureau. • Immigration and Police. • CRVS data to be sent to Zimstat office monthly. • SMS for passport collection • AFIS system to be implemented in 2015.
REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE Thank You Registrar General Web Site www.rg.gov.zw