Mobile Registration

Plan promotes the use of mobile registration units to reach people living in inaccessible areas, enabling them to register at a convenient place within a particular timeframe. Mobile registration increases awareness of birth registration, is a mechanism by which public feedback on civil registration processes can be collected and creates an opportunity to clear birth registration backlogs.

Much of Plan's work on mobile registration units has taken place in South and South-east Asia.  Projects include:

• funding a fully furnished mobile birth registration unit in collaboration with the government in Thailand to help register the births of children in Chiang Rai, which is difficult to reach because of its mountainous terrain - the unit is helping to deliver registration services not only in Chiang Rai, but also to minority groups in the rural areas of 39 provinces
• working with the registrar general in Sri Lanka to facilitate mobile registration in the Passara district – this involved asking plantation supervisors to give workers leave so that they could visit a mobile registration unit based at a local school – over 1,000 workers came to register themselves, their children and other family members.
• setting up a project office in Cambodia as part of a mobile birth registration strategy with an international adviser and coordinator to manage the field operation and the funding of 27 United Nations' Volunteers and providing technical advice and support to the Cambodian government to maximise the effectiveness of the campaign.