About
CRC4D is a resource-, training and advisory centre. CRC4D advisory services bring together consultants in a variety of disciplines in order to offer integrated solutions for civil registration improvement and ID management.
Modern civil registration makes use of the latest information and communication technology, supported by modern law. In developing countries intelligent solutions to expand affordable government outreach, given many people’s financial inability and willingness to reach and access civil registration offices, are key.
- These especially involve the use of mobile technology in combination with interoperability between the health sector and the civil registration authority.
- In addition to such organizational solutions that become the cornerstone of a future e-government development, there are intelligent solutions to pricing policies that take into account the variation among the public in ability and willingness to pay and the product offerings of the civil registration office. Incentives for civil registration are essential.
- International learning will help the application of good practice.
- Universal birth registration is second to none as basis for reliable identification of a country’s citizenry. Registration at birth is also the right of every child (Article 7, 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child)—a right currently denied about one-third of children born in the developing world.
The industrial revolution in England would not have occurred if not for civil registration, according to historian Simon Szreter, Cambridge University (UK). Every developed country has an adequate civil registration system (and identification systems based on it). No developing country government could afford to not repeat history and not lay the basis for a sophisticated society, the rule of law and the enforceability of contracts for economic transactions through complete registration. The quiet revolution in the provision of social protection through cash transfers in more and more countries offers an excellent opportunity to provide incentives for registration, empower beneficiaries and get the targeting right. The total cost of India’s Aadhaar project to provide an ID to every Indian citizen, that cost $2 per person, is equivalent only to 4% of the country’s annual expenditure on social transfer programs. But national IDs require the civil registration system to generate the breeder documents for the national ID as a structural, long-term solution.
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People
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Jaap van der Straaten
Co-Founder | Senior Partner
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Onno M. van der Straaten
Chief Information Officer
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Deirdre Mayers
Executive Secretary
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Max
Mental Coach
Building the "Brands" of Our Associate Partners
Many of our Associate Partners have personal "brands" that help complement our work at CRCR4D. We support and encourage the development of these brands as much as we do for CRC4D's reputation and "brand".
Responsibility
Our Associate Partners do great work. While they do it their way, we care about the how, the when and the what. The where matters to us to keep costs down and be caring to the environment.
