Morocco Standardizes Birth Certificates to Protect Children’s Rights and Identity

Unifying the content of birth certificates and medical certificates, to determine age, based on the principles of sex, the right to identity, the right to non-discrimination and the right to health. This is the objective of the operation to standardize birth certificates and medical certificates, to determine the approximate age.

This operation, which is part of the national campaign for the registration of children in the civil status, also aims to define the rule for the delivery of these certificates, taking into account all possible circumstances.

In doing so, the Government guarantees the right of access to health services, in accordance with the requirements of the 2025 Plan, in particular the strengthening of the National Program for the Care of Children and Women Victims of Violence, guaranteed by measure 72 of this plan.

The digital registration of births is also underway with the Civil Status Update Program, initiated by the Ministry of the Interior, concerned with the creation of a national electronic register of civil status.

As for the creation of a National Population Register, the Ministry of Health plans to develop a digital information system for the registration of births, in conjunction with the Civil Status Update Program initiated by its colleague from the Interior.