for 5680 girls and 8192 boys in the towns of Man, Danane, Touba, Odienne and Seguela.
Under the current actions, it should be noted that through Save the Children financial support to 3
national NGOs (Chigata in the southern zone of Abidjan, "SILOÉ" in Danane for the West and NEW
VISION in Abengourou in the Eastern zone) as well as with Social Centres of these areas, 50,000
children were provided with these important administrative documents. The process ran from August
2013 to March 2014.
Free mobile courts for the identification people and the issuance of voter cards for the presidential
elections of October 2010 were also organised in 2006 and 2007. During these hearings, Presidents of
courts have issued, following a request of the applicant, a single document with the court order and the
applicant's nationality certificate.
However, the mobile courts also known as fourth generation hearings launched under the
Ouagadougou Political Agreements following the Presidential Decision No. 2007-14 / PR of 21
September 2007 on special provisions for public hearings and public hearings procedure, were
intended only to people aged above 13 years old (art. 3) and therefore excluded minors of 13 years.
Recognising this challenge, once the end of crisis process has been completed, the Ivorian
Government intends organise through the Ministry of Justice, tnew mobile courts dedicated to children
below 13 years, using the model of those already held with the financial the support of UNICEF, while
the Interior Ministry intends to solve this problem within the framework of the implementation of its
modernisation of the Ivorian civil status programme.
Recognising of the difficulties encountered by people to register births and deaths during the crisis that
took place in Cote d’Ivoire between 2002 and 2011, due to the prolonged closure and / or dysfunction of
courts and status and registration services, and also the displacement of the population in the conflict
affected areas, the President of the Republic issued a special order in June 2011 to allow the registration
of deaths and births that occurred between September 30, 2002 and June 30, 2011 depending on the
area, according to standard reporting procedures provided for by law (non-recourse to court order).
This exemption was extended by Law 2013-25 of 25 January 2013 and allowed until 31 July 2014, to
register children born during the crisis. To ensure full implementation of this law, the Government
intends to take accompanying measures.
With the direct support of UNICEF and UNHCR, 147,174 eligible children to the exemption mechanism
under that Law have been registered according to the standard procedure of reporting to the civil
registrar.
The Civil Registration Modernization Project
Following the Inter ministerial Order No. 817 / MI / MEF of 21 July 2008, a project called the
"Modernization of Civil Registration in Cote d’Ivoire (Mecci)" was created within the Ministry of the
Interior with financial support of the World Bank, the European Union and UNICEF. " In order to provide
the Cote d’Ivoire with a functional, liable and secure civil register. The action plan revolves around three
main axes (i) revamping of the civil register, ii) institutional strengthening, iii) computerisation of Civil
Register, reliance and sustainability of the Civil register) and provides special Registration procedures
through the sub- following activities:
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