The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and National Populations Commission have trained 570 adhoc personnel on electronic registration of childbirths in Ebonyi.
Federal Commissioner representing Ebonyi State National Population Commission, Dr Jeremiah Nwankwegu, stated this at Onueke, Ezza South Local Government headquarters of the State.
The adhoc Staff were drawn from three local government areas Ezza South, Ezza North, and Onicha.
According to Dr. Nwankwegu, the trainees would participate in the 2024 child birth registration planned to be digitalized. He however noted that the child birth registration would capture children between the ages of 0 to 5, adding that the program was being funded by UNICEF in collaboration with NPC.
“UNICEF in collaboration with the NPC Is flagging off a program on registration of birth from 0- 5 years. It is a digitalized program where we register our births electronically. This time around we are doing 0-5 years that does not mean that we are not registering others but in this particular programme, we are interested in capturing 0-5years.
“UNICEF and NPC work hand in hand, they produce our certificate of birth, they have been helping us a lot we give free birth registration from 0-17 years but this one is targeted to 0-5 years.
The Ad-hoc you just saw are the people we are recruiting to do the work. Here is housing 3 local governments,Onicha, Ezza North and Ezza South, the other center is housing Abakaliki, Ebonyi, and Ikwo LGAs.
By next week we are going to flag off Afikpo zone which is going to house four LGAs. But we are taking our time to train these Ad-hoc staff before going to other zones.
The criteria for choosing these people are that you must be computer compliant because you are dealing with electronic gadgets, the person must be degree holder or a person who is certified to use electronic gadgets. Also, we choose based on random sampling to make sure that every ward is represented and we choose the number of people to be trained from the strength of the LGAa but in all, we will be taking up to 570 participants including those we have not started training.
“The essence of this training is that one, you know the country is planning if you want to look at the Medicare of these children you have to know the number to know the number of drugs assuming it in health sector. You checking agriculture, economically especially in world planning, to know the population of the people in a geographic setting, and with the 0-5 years of data collection now that we have not done the census we can still use it to project and know what the federal government is going to plan intense of drugs and nutrition and so on.
“The funding of this program is primarily now UNICEF assisted but NPC is training the staff”.
ALSO READ THESE TOP STORIES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE
and then