TITLE:
Problems Related to the Implementation of Child’s Right Birth Registration in Burundi: Proposing Their Remedies
AUTHORS:
Ildephonse Sindayigaya
KEYWORDS:
Burundi, Child’s Birth Registration, Mobile Registration, Sensitization, Data Interconnection, African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.9,
September
5,
2023
ABSTRACT: The second paragraph of Article 6 of the African Charter on the right and
welfare of the child obliges its States parties to register birth immediately.
Birth registration is a key to other children’s rights. In conjugation with
UNICEF-Burundi, the State made an effort to attain birth registration
completeness. Children’s non-registration undermines all children’s rights. The
analysis through this research uses documentary methods and interviews. Civil
servants do not know birth registration is a children’s right. About 38% of
born children in hospitals and health centers are not registered immediately at
birth. To avoid children’s non-registration, Burundi needs to apply systems
used successfully in other countries like Kenya and Liberia as digitalization
by mobile phone registration and decentralization. It is useful for Burundi to
initiate sensitization of the civil servants and population about the
usefulness of birth registration and apply interconnection between hospitals
and civil status office data in the field.