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He said, though, that 93 percent ahead of the 2015 achievement deadline of 100 percent is remarkable and sets the tone for greater accomplishment.
Boston said, in 2011, a study was commissioned, with support from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), to understand the status of birth registration in Guyana.
He said the survey sought to provide practical data which supports a greater understanding of the policies and creates national and regional goals for universal birth registration by 2015.
Boston reiterated that it is a fundamental human right which is linked to access to social services, political identity, citizenship and maintaining vital statistics.
“If there is no birth certificate at the beginning, there is going to be a stage when you probably come to the exam level where it becomes an issue,” he pointed out.
VERY SOON
Boston assured, though, that the RCC will work to have systems in place which would see people avoiding those blockages and this will be done very soon.
Former President Bharrat Jagdeo, in October 2011, signed onto a declaration pledging support for achieving birth registration by 2015 and it was later endorsed by President Donald Ramotar.
Boston disclosed that the results of the study on birth registration will be made public by the end of the year.
It is estimated that 48 million babies go unregistered every year and an unregistered child is unable to uphold its rights.
Meanwhile, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) highlight the importance of birth registration as a key to child protection and an information source to measure progress in such areas as eradicating poverty and hunger, universal primary education, reducing child mortality and combating HIV/AIDS.
