Yemen
The project were spitted in two
components, the first Human Rights related, the second -
our part - a technical task, oriented to strengthen the
capacity of the Civil Register.
Our project counterpart in the Yemen Project was the
Ministry of Interior, and there especially the
Authority
of Civil Status and Civilian Records, how is called the
Civil Register, which is more a population register in
the definition by the tasks of the institution.
Mainly they are currently involved in the emission of
biometric based ID-cards – means biometric enrolment for
the application and non biometric cards. Intension is to
close so the existing registration gap, especially in
the northern part of the country in a verified manner.
All applicants are searched by fingerprint and photo in
a 1:N modus. For us the reached technical level was
surprising.
In
this time were executed and prepared many projects in the same and relevant area in
preparation, starting with a internal network, the
emission of biometric ID-cards and passports, etc. We
have had contact with the following institutions:
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Authority of Civil
Status and Civilian Records – direct counterpart,
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Parliament member and
civil society representatives, Camber of Commerce,
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The enterprise which is emitting
the passports and ID cards, in case of the passports including
the enrolment of the applicants, and
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Justice project of the
US-Emabssy
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Different Clan chiefs, recommended by
our excellent local expert.
The map illustrate the status of birth registration of Yemen 2006, based
on UNICEF and the official statistical data of the country. The map is an
own product of our team.
The mission was affected by the bad relation to
the EUD project manager, a lady with many experience in NGO work, but not
technically and by content on the necessary level. Stating from semantically
problems of technical issues until the lack of understanding the
organisation of the register, which is since years more a population
register as a simple civil register.
