Madagascar: Lessons from an Ambitious Digital Identity Program
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We can be proud of the journey of #Madagascar 🇲🇬
Tariq Malik, we were working together on the two sides of the program — you with the World Bank Group team and myself with the Unité de Gouvernance Digitale, also supported on the legal reform aspects by Jean Aholou.
3 experienced consultants supporting the program as 3 solid pillars 🏛️ — structuring the vision before the big picture was in place.
From 2023, the program started to shape its vision and deliver towards it. The excellent local team matured a lot and delivered piece by piece in a difficult context.
The journey of Madagascar is full of lessons:
- Inclusive first approach — giving an ID number at first encounter
- Backpack-based enrollment kits
- Offline first enrollment
- Late civil registration law
- Vendor neutral QR code based PVC cards
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