The Government of Papua New Guinea, with the support by UNICEF PNG, aims to boost birth registration to ensure all children have a legal identity. UNICEF has provided 44 innovative mobile enrolment kits across the country, aiming to boost PNG’s registration capacity tenfold, with each kit capable of handling more than a thousand registrations per month.
For more details, please see the press release here.
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