Tigo Tanzania continues under-five mobile birth registration
Tanzania's digital lifestyle company, Tigo, is continuing to support the government's under-five birth registration initiative through innovative mobile application that is accelerating provisioning of birth certificate for children under the age of five. The underfive birth registration initiative in Iringa and Njombe regions is expected to benefit more than 200,000 under-five children in the two regions.
The programme brings registration closer to the communities by establishing registration points at existing health facilities and at the communities' ward executive offices. This gives parents in these two regions access to more than 700 registration points. Moreover, there will be more than 1,500 Registration Assistants equipped with 800 mobile phones donated by Tigo to support the registration process.
Tigo has been partnering with Registration, Insolvency and Trusteeship Agency (RITA) and UNICEF in scaling up this project in Njombe and Iringa regions, following success registered in Mbeya and Mwanza regions, where more than 400,000 under-five children have been registered and provided with birth certificates from 2013 to date.
The under-five birth registration initiative marks a significant shift in accelerating birth registration in Tanzania, after years of stagnation.