Count Every Child Conference 2009
Monday 16 November 2009, London, UK
Each year, 51 million children are not registered at birth, directly affecting their rights to health, education, welfare, employment and democracy. Plan held a unique one day conference to share the latest innovations and practice at local and national levels and explore ways in which to make universal registration a reality.
The conference, Count Every Child, convened a critical audience of government representatives, policy makers, researchers, practitioners and donors and offered the opportunity to hear from leading experts from Harvard University, UN agencies, INTERPOL and others to debate the issues and make recommendations for achieving universal birth registration.
Read the 'Count Every Child' report (English, French, Spanish).
To view the programme for the day, click here.
 Read Plan CEO Nigel Chapman's opening remarks |
 For notes from Professor Jacqueline Bhabha's Keynote speech, read the full conference minutes here |
Presentations
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For a list of participating delegates, click here
Media Coverage
BBC News ran a piece about birth registration and the conference (16/11/09). Read here
CNN ran a piece about Plan's birth registration campaign, 'Count Every Child' (17/11/09). Read here
Reuters ran a piece about Plan's birth registration campaign, 'Count Every Child' (16/11/09).Read here
The work of Plan Bangladesh was featured on Al Jazeera (20/11/09) – and can be read about here
Plan UK CEO Marie Staunton was interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour (23/1109).Listen here
OneWorld.net ran a piece about Plan's birth registration campaign, 'Count Every Child' (16/11/09). Read here
