19. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals on providing legal identity for all, including birth registration, and reiterating its previous recommendations (see CRC/C/AGO/CO/2-4, para. 35), the Committee urges the State party to:
(a) Extend the national mass birth registration campaign to parents, including non-Angolan citizens, refugees and asylum seekers, as this facilitates birth registration for their children;
(b) Allocate sufficient financial, human and technical resources to the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Programme for Africa, which includes birth registration, and decentralize birth registration as far as possible to benefit rural and marginalized populations, including by establishing mobile birth registration teams;
(c) Continue to conduct awareness-raising programmes, including campaigns, on birth registration within communities, in particular in rural areas;
(d) Continue to strengthen existent multisectoral approaches, increase effective coordination between relevant ministries and connect birth registration with social protection and health, education and social services;
(e) Step up efforts to remove practical obstacles, including by providing clear guidance and training to birth registration officials, to comprehensive birth registration of all children born to foreigners in Angola, including refugees and asylum seekers;
(f) Introduce legal safeguards for children in the State party who would otherwise be stateless, and consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness;
(g) Take all the necessary measures to expand access to identification cards for all children and to other forms of identification documents for asylum-seeking and refugee children;
(h) Seek technical assistance from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and UNICEF, among others, for the implementation of the recommendations in subparagraphs (a)–(g) above.