Tabri RI Pehli Pehchan- Mobilizing Civil Society for Ensuring Birth Registration of Girl Children in Rural Rajasthan

Agency : Plan India, Delhi

The overall objective of the project was to promote universal registration and provision of birth certificates to the girl child as a tool for ensuring the right to survival, protection and identity. The project sought to accomplish this by empowering gram sachivalaya for facilitating birth and death registration coverage of children, with focus on girl children, in selected rural areas of Rajasthan, and to help Government of Rajasthan in distributing birth certificates to the children. The project was implemented by district level partner organizations in seven districts of Rajasthan (Bhilwara, Bikaner, Churu, Jodhpur, Karauli, Nagaur and Pali) and the partner organizations celebrated National Girls Child Day (January 24) to advocate the issue at various levels. Only daughters’ parents were focused on so that they could avail of the government schemes which promote the girl child. During the project, 151 gram panchayats achieved universal birth registration (100%). Adding the previous experiences of birth registration and certification, more than 2.5 lakh children received their birth certificates.


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