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SIREC Digital Civil Registry

Guinea-Bissau launched its Integrated System of Citizen Registers and Statistics (SIREC) at Bissau's 1st Civil Registry Office in January 2025, replacing paper birth and identity books with digital registration. UNICEF and UNDP backed the rollout, aiming to lift a birth-registration rate stuck near 46 percent.

Live 📅 since 2025

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🏛️ GovernanceDigital government
Scale🌍 National
FundingUNICEF/UNDP (Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development financing)

📖 Terms in this entry: Civic participation platform · Digital identity · Open data

Sources

↗ Instituto Camões — SIREC launch ceremony coverageConfirms the Jan 2025 launch ceremony at Bissau's 1st Civil Registry Office, with the first SIREC certificate issued there.
↗ Biometric Update — Guinea-Bissau digitizes birth registration and ID systemsNational-level coverage of the SIREC rollout and UNICEF/UNDP support.
↗ UNICEF Guinea-Bissau — birth registration in health servicesDescribes a SIREC birth-registration office at the Maternity and Child Care Center in Bissau; direct fetch returned 403, re-verify before publishing.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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🇬🇦 Gabon's Electronic National ID Card (CNIE) & NIP Rollout · Libreville Two 2024-25 African digital-ID pushes: Gabon's chip CNIE began in Libreville, Guinea-Bissau's SIREC digitised birth registers in Bissau. 🇳🇬 Lagos State Residents Register and the LAG-ID Card · Lagos Both digitise civil identity at very different scale: Lagos's LASRRA has enrolled millions since 2011, Bissau's SIREC starts near 46%. 🇹🇬 WURI Biometric Social Safety Program · Lomé Two donor-backed West African ID drives in 2025: Togo's WURI biometric number vs Guinea-Bissau's SIREC digital birth registry.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “SIREC Digital Civil Registry” — Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/bissau-biometric-registry/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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