Work to build developed civil system
ADDIS ABABA – Addis Ababa Civil Registration and Residency Service Agency (CRRSA) and National ID Program Office (Fayda) jointly announced that they would begin to implement Fayda ID registration starting from today.
Briefing journalists yesterday, CRRSA’s Director General Yonas Alemayehu said that the two bodies listed above starts cooperative work to carry out the implementation of National ID (Fayda) in 19 districts, all sub cities, and the head office from Monday to Saturday across the metropolitan.
As to Yonas, Fayda is among a forwarding step to realize a digital infrastructure, which is creating enabled environment for digital transformation 2025. The Fayda registration would play significant role in making strong connection among institutes, city to city, towns to states, and reduce bureaucratic red tape.
He added that the main aims of Fayda registration is providing significant benefit for residents by taking relevant information thereby fighting against illegal acts. Besides, bringing system integration across various sectors is another significant outcome to provide efficient service for residences apart from ensuring smart city operation.
He further stated that CRRSA and Fayda are organized taskforce and finalized preliminary activities so as to facilitate the registration process. However, combined efforts should be exerted to realize meaningful outcome from Fayda registration . Particularly, awareness creation among the residences would encourage to create full image about the significance of Fayda.
National ID Program Executive General, Yodahe Zemikael on his part mentioned that the campaign, which is starting today, will last for the next one month. In this campaign, National ID set to register some 1,000,000 residences in Addis.
“The Fayda registration campaign would bring a paramount role in signifying the residences’ needs and ensuring the legal document system through using legal identity management approach,” he added.
BY MESERET BEHAILU
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD THURSDAY 10 OCTOBER 2024
