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Watch: Mozambique wants to strengthen civil registration system to prevent identity theft

2:03 CAT | 21 Nov 2016

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The Working Group on Vital Statistics (GITEV) is preparing a strategy to strengthen the country’s civil registration and vital statistics system to protect it from crimes such as identity theft.

According to the director of planning and coordination at the Ministry of Justice, Constitutional and Religious Affairs, Zita Joaquim, information on deaths is still dispersed, and in order to avoid the identity of a deceased person being appropriated by third parties, it must be amalgamated into a single source.

“This information is widespread and needs to be gathered together. We have registers in hospitals, others in police stations and in neighbourhoods, and it is necessary that they all be grouped together in one institution to facilitate the lives of citizens and of the state in the control of the population,” she explained.

To help develop strategy design, GITEV met in Maputo on Friday to discuss how to improve planning to provide services to citizens in various social sectors, shared between partners the current state of things and heard proposals aimed at elaborating its action plan over the coming years.

“We think it is good to meet partners and draw up a national action plan and strategy of activities,” she said.
Joaquim said that the inter-institutional task group, created in 2012, aimed to make the country’s civil registries and statistics system more robust, especially as regards the process of recording deaths.