Citizen Identity Registration System and Unique Citizen Identity Number

Without knowing and registering the population, a nation cannot facilitate its citizens with government services in an efficient and effective manner. Mozambique has no central register of its population nor has each citizen a unique personal number. There are various ID documents/cards issued (i.e. election card, military card, health card, driver license, passports) by various agencies belonging to different ministries, and for each type of document/card separate and non-linked numbering is applied.

This project is one of the fundamental corner stones in Mozambique's national e-governance strategy thus vital to the whole country. It will create possibilities for Mozambique to efficiently and effectively plan for and implement social services for citizens, promote democracy through the availability of efficient and correct registers for voting, promote an efficient, effective and fair government, etc.

The overall objective of the proposed project is to i) pilot the population register as the core of the e-government initiative including investigating and testing integrations and interoperability to the rest of the e-government, ii) to develop one national unique identification number and iii) to deploy a thousand identification cards as a proof-of-concept project. Further included in the project are activities for a legal framework for full-scale system, capacity building and the securing of further funding.