https://weshare.unicef.org/archive/11852-Uganda-Pan-African-Birth-Registration-INT-HD-PAL-2AM40804G3XK.html

SHOTLIST

1. Med shot, pan down, a poster on birth registration and mothers holding their children sitting in front of it, waiting to register their children’s births, in Mityana Hospital, a district hospital some three hours of drive from capital Kampala
2. Close-up a newborn baby in the maternity ward
3. Med shot, expectant mothers, and mothers who just gave birth in the maternity ward
4. Med shot, delegates from Angola during the study tour
5. Med shot, Pali Lehohla (in dotted shirt), participant and South Africa Statistic Director, with other participants during the study tour
6. Med shot, delegates from Nigeria
7. Med shot, delegates interacting during the study tour
8. Interview (English), Pali Lehohla, participant and South Africa Statistic Director
9. Med shot, Mr. Lehohla interacting with an independent civil registration expert from Switzerland
10. Med shot, delegates from India who are also here in the spirit of South-South learning
11. Med shot, a delegate from Plan International interacting with an African participant
12. Med shot, mothers and children waiting for health check-ups for the children at Mityana Hospital
13. Med shot, a poster on birth registration in the hospital
14. Med shot, a health staff recording a birth
15. Med shot, a mother signing the birth notification form
16. Wide shot, another mother sitting in front of hospital staff to record her child’s birth
17. Close-up, a computer screen showing the web-based application that is linked to a central government database server for birth registration
18. Close-up, the hospital administrator stamping an official birth certificate
19. Wide shot, the administrator handing over the certificate to a mother
20. Wide shot, street in a remote village in Kiyuni sub country
21. Med shot, children walking across a street
22. Med shot, a girl in white dress walking in the street
23. Interview (English), Joel Sebakije, Parish Chief and notifier in Kiyuni sub country
24. Close-up, Mr. Sebakje demonstrating how the Mobile Vital Record System works
25. Close-up, Mr. Sebakje demonstrating how the Mobile Vital Record System works
26. Interview (Portuguese), Guilaze Carla, Director of Registry and Notary, Mozambique: “I grew up knowing the history of Uganda, a country that had a difficult past. But within 26 years, they managed to overcome many barriers in the field of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics, and they have done it relatively well. Their experience tells us that if we can capture all births then we can also help accelerate the development of Mozambique.”
27. Close-up, the number to dial into the Mobile Vital Record System being displayed to the delegates during a demonstration of how the system works
28. Close-up, more details of the system
29. Med shot, Mr. Sebakje dialing the number during a demonstration
30. Close-up, pan down, the administrator at Mityana Hospital signs a birth certificate
31. Close-up, pan up, the mother who just received her child’s certificate displaying it

SCRIPT

With more than half sub-Saharan children without registration, the time has come to fix the broken civil registration systems in the continent.

It is for that reason, civil registrars from 13 African countries recently gathered in Uganda, to learn from each other and to draw inspiration from the innovations Uganda is doing.

Interview (English), Pali Lehohla, participant and South Africa Statistic Director: “With new technologies, Africa can leap frog in a much shorter span of time and achieve the same that other countries have already achieved, but with centuries of investments in this area.”

At this district Hospital in Mityana, they saw firsthand how Uganda’s birth registration has been integrated into its health services, quite a departure from most African countries where the two services are disconnected.

The records are then transferred through this web-based application to a government database server. Once verified by the hospital official, an official birth certificate is printed and handed over to the mother.

For the communities living in remote areas, the Mobile Vital Record System, developed with the help of UNICEF and Uganda Telecom, comes in handy.

Interview (English), Joel Sebakije, Parish Chief and notifier in Kiyuni sub country: “Every information I want to edit, I want to revise, is on my phone. So it is portable. They have assisted us in terms of mobile birth registration because people they want to see my child has been registered using this technology. So the community has been very very happy.”

Interview (Portuguese), Guilaze Carla, Director of Registry and Notary, Mozambique: “I grew up knowing the history of Uganda, a country that had a difficult past. But within 26 years, they managed to overcome many barriers in the field of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics, and they have done it relatively well. Their experience tells us that if we can capture all births then we can also help accelerate the development in Mozambique.”

There are no shortcuts to fix a broken system, but Uganda’s experience has showed to other African countries, that with the aid of technology they too can advance their civil registration systems by leaps and bounds.

Sep 2013 - In Uganda, African countries seek new approaches to birth registration. Civil registrars from 13 countries gathered in Uganda looking for solutions to improve birth registration across the continent. More than half of sub-Saharan Africa's children are not registered at birth, a result of antiquated systems, poor infrastructure and lack of broad-based inclusion.

2013

COUNTRIES:

Uganda

Unique identifier:

UNI151582

Shoot Date:

September 02, 2013

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