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Chief Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo submitted vehicles and motorcycles to the Birth and Death Registry under the Public Sector Reform for Results Project (PSRRP) to improve its service delivery.
The nine Nissan Hard Body vans, a Toyota Hilux and 120 motorcycles with trackers and courier boxes, aim to facilitate the registration of births and deaths in Ghana to improve the database for public sector development.
Speaking to the Press before the delivery on Wednesday in the Annex of the Office of the Presidency, the Chief Minister, Mr. Yaw Osafo-Maafo, informed that, since the Registry is fundamental for the functions of the public sector, it must fully equipped to perform its functions properly.
In that regard, Mr. Osafo-Maafo said that the Birth and Death Registry should be properly decentralized to the Ministry of Local Government.
“There should be a Registry of Births and Deaths in every district in this country … If you get the correct data, the population census becomes automatic,” he said.
The Chief Minister explained the basis for the public sector reforms saying that citizens and the private sector expected the public sector to better respond to their needs, “In particular, the speed with which public services are delivered and how citizens and companies can turn their needs into opportunities. “
Mr. Osafo-Maafo indicated that when such rapid service delivery was achieved by the public sector, the private sector would function better and that would increase the economic growth of the country.
Acting Registrar of Births and Deaths, Reverend Kingsley Asare Addo, expressed his joy at receiving the facilities and said that there would be no vehicles left in Accra, but all would be distributed to the six new regions and that the bikes would go to the districts disadvantaged.
“We want to give the Registry of Births and Deaths a new face, a very friendly stance, so that people do not have difficulties in obtaining their Birth and Death certificates. We are implementing this program to target all baby births that occurred in this country.
“We will reach out to the communities as much as possible and ensure that every birth and death that occurs at any level is properly captured,” Mr. Addo reported.
The Ag. Registrar said his team also had the opportunity under the PSRRP program to improve their digitization processes and would ensure that the information captured locally is entered into the central database.
Mr Addo said that when this was done, he would help interface with the National Identification Authority (NIA), the National Insurance and Social Security Fund (SSNIT), the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) and the Ghana Health Service. (GHS), which would improve data on residents of Ghana.
“So, together, we want to give a common database, which would be the basis of identity systems in this country; if Ghana gets the right to register births and deaths, all other identification systems would also benefit, ”added Mr. Addo.
The PSRRP is a key initiative of the Government of Ghana under the Office of the Chief Minister with a line of credit from the World Bank.
The project gained effectiveness in 2019 and has come a long way in assisting and providing financial support to sixteen selected entities in Ghana’s public sector to provide quality services to citizens and the private sector.
