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What barriers need to be removed to accelerate
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What funding challenges need to be overcome to improve identity roll-out?
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What are the gender nuances that need to be considered to ensure women are not disproportionately excluded from formal ID ownership?
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What policy or regulation gaps need to be filled to enable ID ownership for the excluded groups?
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Inclusion for All / Inclusion for all
Conversations Across State Lines – Kaduna State’s Digital ID Journey
What we know: Foundational identity system that encourages inclusiveness and aligns with best practice is critical to participating in the formal economy. Formal ID confers recognition by government and service providers and enables access to a host of services – financial, health, education, and social safety nets. On Episode 11 of Inclusion for all radio, Chinasa […]
Enrolment barriers
The power of identity
The NIN is Nigeria’s form of foundational digital ID that all bonafide citizens must have. Providing universal coverage and barrier-free access to ID systems is one of the three pillars of the Principles on Identification for Sustainable Development and is vital to achieving Target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to “provide legal identity […]
Enrolment barriers
Policy/Regulatory gaps
Identity: A beacon of hope
Without a formal means of ID the people we care about are “unseen” by the government and other key stakeholders that can help them.; thus making their impoverished state at risk of stagnating or even worsening.
Enrolment barriers
Policy/Regulatory gaps
Service delivery
USSD cut-off saga – An Inclusion For All documentary
In May, Nigerian telcos approved the suspension of USSD service access from Nigerian banks due to the banks’ accumulated debt of N210 billion (USD 261.36 million) in USSD fees. This decision might seem like just another business move, but it could have significant consequences for financial inclusion. In a country where 38% of the population […]
Policy/Regulatory gaps
Tabawa’s story
Tabawa has her NIN and knows how it is well accepted. She highlighted that the older ones in her community do not care about having a NIN because they are not interested in opening bank accounts. She highlighted that the long queues and poor network are the most challenging issues people have to deal with […]
Gender
Joy’s story
Joy declares that she has a formal ID – the Permanent Voter’s Card has her means of identification and also used it in opening her bank account. She shares how the cash scarcity adversely impacted the sales of her farm produce.
Gender
