Registration challenges and good practice
As a result of Plan’s pioneering research and advocacy in the field of birth registration, it has become clear that there are many reasons why parents and guardians do not register their children at birth. Depending on the specific context, parents face varying challenges to registration. These may be social, legal, economic, political and geographical. During the universal birth registration campaign, Plan has worked with children, parents, communities, partners and states, applying a variety of different strategies designed to overcome these barriers. Our goal is to make birth registration compulsory, timely, free and accessible for all. The following sections highlight the challenges and barriers Plan has faced during the campaign, each accompanied by key strategies we have employed to overcome them and examples of good practice.
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COUNT EVERY CHILD The right to birth registration