Burkina: DG-MEC wants better coordination in the establishment of civil status documents

The Director General of Modernization and Civil Status (DG-MEC), Justin Omer Balima, called for better coordination in all actions around the establishment of civil status documents on Thursday.'Implementing a strategy requires some coordination, because being a planning document, all partners should be focused on its implementation,' said Director General Justin Omer Balima.Mr. Balima spoke on Thursday in Ouagadougou, during the first ordinary session of the year 2024 of the national civil status strategy committee.The Director General also specified that consultations are underway with all stakeholders for better coordination of actions around civil status.Despite this lack of coordination and the security challenge, the results of the activities carried out in 2023 by the steering body are satisfactory, according to Justin Omer Balima.According to him, these activities include, among others, the digitization of civil status facts, the establishment of 299,809 birth certificates for certain people , the networking of 15 main civil status centers, the exhaustive registration of births and the production of life statistics.Furthermore, the head of the planning, monitoring and evaluation department at DG-MEC, Raïssa Kambou, informed that a multi-sectoral committee has adopted an IT solution for the electronic registration of civil status events.According to her, the pilot phase of this solution will be implemented in October, before being deployed in all civil status centers in the country.Adopted in 2023, the national civil status strategy (2023-2027) is a planning document that allows the State's umbrella structures to plan all activities relating to the registration of civil status events and the production of life statistics.Source: Burkina Information Agency