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NIGERIA - National Identity Management Commission |
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| This buyer is a part of Agence Française de Développement (AFD). | ||||||||||||
| NIGERIA - National Identity Management Commission operates in Nigeria. | ||||||||||||
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1.1 Nigeria’s pressing development challenges require a robust system which allows government and service providers to verify individuals’ identity on demand. As the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) helps people in Nigeria rise out of poverty and achieve greater prosperity, identification is critical to deliver key services inclusively and effectively—such as basic financial access, health, education, and social safety nets—and ensure the country’s economic, social, and political progress. Existing ID systems, comprising the national ID system and civil registration (CR), suffer from low coverage across the population. The CR system also remains primarily paper based, lacking a centralized archive, and without the ability to link to the national ID system.
1.2 The FGN intends to harmonize the existing ID ecosystem to develop a foundational ID system which can be leveraged to improve service delivery. A national strategy for identification, called the Strategic Roadmap for Developing Digital Identification in Nigeria, has highlighted the need for a minimalist, foundational, and ecosystem-based approach to identification in the country. The Strategic Roadmap was approved by the Federal Executive Council of Nigeria (FEC) in 2018, and is being implemented in the framework of the Nigeria Digital ID4D project, with technical and financial support from the World Bank, French Development Agency (AFD), and European Investment Bank (EIB). The Strategic Roadmap is intended to offer a credible pathway for the FGN to develop identification at a low cost and fast pace. It proposes a modified approach to developing identification by leveraging the FGN’s existing institutions, capacities, and systems. 1.3 Aligned with this Strategic Roadmap and the FGN’s National Strategic Action Plan for CRVS (2018–2022), the Nigeria Digital ID4D Project has been conceptualized with the primary objective to increase the number of persons with a national ID number, issued by a robust and inclusive foundational ID system, that facilitates their access to services. The project will bring coverage of digital ID in Nigeria to 85% of the population and 97.5% of adults by the end of 2027. In addition, the project will actively build links to the financial sector to support access to digital financial services for all ID holders. |
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