29. The Committee recommends that the State party:
(a) Strengthen its efforts to implement free and early birth registration procedures and to issue birth certificates and that it place a special focus on children in rural areas;
(b) Improve the registration of births occurring outside hospital facilities and consider the use of mobile birth registration teams to cover remote communities;
(c) Ensure the accuracy of registration details for babies born to young and unwed mothers;
(d) Develop strategies to change the social mindset and negative attitudes towards unwed mothers;
(e) Provide the financial, human and technical resources necessary to improve the efficiency of the new computerized registration system;
(f) Launch extensive awareness-raising programmes on the importance of birth registration and the process by which children are registered.
Birth registration