Botswana: Botswana sets out to improve civil registration

19 Septembre 2017

GABORONE,  Botswana, September  19 (Infosplusgabon) -  Botswana intends to develop, implement and maintain its human identification system in line with the evolving technology, the government said on Monday.

It published a notice for both local and international companies to express interest on maintenance of the country’s integrated system for civil registration services, migration and citizenship.

The tender, however, requires foreign companies to cede 30 percent of the job to local companies.

“Foreign companies must subcontract up to 30% of the work to 100% citizen owned companies in line with the Botswana Citizen Economic Empowerment (CEE) Policy of 2012. The 100% citizen owned company’s name should be provided, the percentage of work to be allocated to the contractor should be stated and a copy of the contract between the main contractor and the sub-contractor should be availed,” said Patience Motswagole, Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board (PPADB) chairman in a statement on government website.

Botswana has over the years accelerated improvements in the national registers of births, deaths and identity management by intensifying enrolments and improving data integrity.

This has resulted in an integrated data set per each citizen from birth to death registration.

Improvement in Botswana’ civil registration has been recognized with international awards.

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