An estimated 7.5 million Cameroonians, about one in three people in the country, do not have an official proof of identity such as a birth certificate or national ID card. More than one in three children...
The sister initiatives Identification for Development (ID4D) and Digitizing Government to Person Payments (G2Px) have continued to be at the forefront of helping countries build identification systems...
The World Bank Group’s Identification for Development (ID4D) Initiative prepared a Primer on Biometrics for ID Systems (Primer) as a reference document for practitioners, civil society organizations, development...
Pakistan’s Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) provides unconditional cash transfers to women in seven million of the country’s poorest households. Beginning in 2017, BISP adopted biometric verification...
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has accelerated digitalization in ways that were unimaginable just two years ago, highlighting the fundamental role that digital identification (ID) and...
Of the countries that have been able to achieve the outcomes of speed, inclusion, and impact of their mass vaccination programs, two key success factors have included: (1) the availability, reliability...
The Principles on Identification for Sustainable Development, endorsed by 30 organizations, provides a framework for how to design identification (ID) systems that fulfill the promise of inclusive, sustainable...
Rwanda's electronic national population register (NPR) and ID project was first launched in 2008 and has since achieved impressive coverage. Today, the NPR captures the information of approximately 98...
The World Bank Group’s identification for development (ID4D) initiative estimates that 1 billion people are without an officially recognized means of ID - of these, the majority are women. ID4D undertook...
An estimated one billion people around the world do not have an officially recognized means of identification (ID). The majority live in low-income countries (LICs), particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa...
Across the globe, countries have leveraged foundational identification (ID) systems as part of their COVID-19 pandemic (coronavirus) and to transition to online service delivery. Where inclusive and trusted...
Access to identification is a vital priority. In developing countries, persons with disabilities are among those most likely to face barriers in accessing government services such as health and rehabilitation...
This report presents the current state of identification (ID) systems in Tunisia and their use across sectors. Based on an initial study completed in 2018 by the World Bank’s identification for development...
This report presents the current state of identification (ID) systems in Tunisia and their use across sectors. Based on an initial study completed in 2018 by the World Bank’s identification for development...
As the birth place of fingerprint identification and one of the first countries in Latin America to establish a civil registry (CR), Argentina has a long history of identification. Until 2009, however...
This Annual Report marks the third year since the launch of the World Bank Group’s Identification for Development (ID4D) partnership platform and provides an opportunity to highlight the achievements of...
Inclusive and trusted identification (ID) systems are crucial tools for achieving sustainabledevelopment, including the World Bank Group’s twin goals of ending extreme poverty and ofboosting shared prosperity...
The focus of this Guide is on the design and implementation of digital ID systems that provide people with proof of legal identity, which is commonly needed to access basic services, rights, and protections...
The note was prepared by the World Bank's ID4D Initiative to summarize country experiences and practices related to fees charged by ID authorities to public and private sector third parties for identity...
Providing universal coverage and barrier-free access to ID systems is one of the three pillars of the Principles on Identification for Sustainable Development and is vital to achieving Target 16.9 of the...