10. Noting with concern significant data gaps on the situation of children, the Committee recommends that the State party:
(c) Improve the collection and analysis of data on birth registration (...)
16. While noting the efforts of the State party to address discrimination, the Committee recommends that the State party: (...)
(c) Ensure that children in disadvantaged situations have access to birth registration, education, adequate health services, housing and an adequate standard of living.
20. The Committee notes with appreciation the digitalization of birth registration but is concerned about barriers faced by children in disadvantaged situations. The Committee recommends that the State party:
(a) Strengthen its efforts to achieve universal birth registration and ensure that all children, including children in rural areas, children belonging to minority groups, asylum-seeking and refugee children, children whose place of birth cannot be determined and children without identity documents, have access to birth registration and identity documents, including by adopting the civil registration and identification bill, increasing mobile registration units and outreach visits to rural areas, strengthening multi-agency coordination between government departments, health-care facilities and schools and providing interpretation services;
(b) Conduct a comprehensive public awareness-raising campaign regarding the importance of registering children’s births and the associated procedures, particularly targeting rural areas and regions with low registration rates;
(c) Ensure that safeguards are in place for the protection of stateless children, in line with the State party’s harambee prosperity plan and the pledge made at the Global Refugee Forum to prevent and reduce statelessness;
(d) Take legislative measures, including by adopting the bill on statelessness, to facilitate the acquisition of nationality for children who would otherwise be stateless, including foundlings and orphans, and ensure that such provisions include a definition of foundling;
(e) Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.
21. The Committee notes with appreciation the decriminalization of “baby-dumping” but is concerned about the large number of abandoned babies and the lack of a legal framework for surrogacy. The Committee recommends that the State party:
(b) Consider adopting a regulatory framework for protecting the rights of children born through surrogacy, including their right to nationality and access to information about their origins.
40. Noting with appreciation the policy on inclusive education of 2013 and the establishment of schools in Osire refugee camp for asylum-seeking and refugee children, the Committee recommends that the State party:
(a) Strengthen measures aimed at ensuring that all children with disabilities, including forcibly displaced and stateless children, have access to inclusive education in mainstream schools, such as by: (i) incorporating innovative teaching methods and approaches for enhancing inclusion into the policy on inclusive education; (ii) allocating sufficient resources for ensuring reasonable accommodation within schools infrastructure; and (iii) adapting curricula and training, and assigning specialized teachers and professionals to integrated classes, so that children with disabilities receive individual support and due attention;