Published on: February 14, 2023
By Marcelo Pedalino
MAASIN CITY (PIA) -- The national identification project of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), more popularly known as PhilSys, has evolved into an outreach-like mission that targets those who cannot afford to get their personal and civil identities registered.
This was carried out under PhilSys Birth Registration Assistance Project (PBRAP), an undertaking that began in 2022 and will continue until next year (2024), according to Eutemio Llevado Jr., chief statistical specialist at the PSA provincial office.
“Updates on PBRAP were presented during the launching of the Civil Registration Month held in Hinunangan town February 2, which was attended by Usec. Claire Dennis Mapa, national statistician and civil registrar general,” Llevado said in a press statement.
“Usec. Mapa emphasized the importance of PBRAP’s major purpose which is to register the marginalized sector in the community,”Llevado added.
At the Kapihan sa PIA Thursday, Llevado informed that PBRAP was being undertaken in close coordination with local government units down to the barangay level, where barangay secretaries took extra effort searching who among their folks have no birth certificates, then submit the list to the local civil registrar, who will be the one to link with PSA.
For the duration of the PBRAP, it has an allocation of P1 million purposely to pay the fees in extracting or processing vital documents, Llevado said and, with the Civil Registry System (CRS) outlet now in place in the city, the desired document can be obtained within the day, or even in an hour at the earliest.
Meanwhile, on the national ID system, Llevado reported that about 77% of the total population of the province at more than 429,000 individuals had registered for PhilSys, and with that figure, his office was only 13% short with the targeted goal of 90%.
It was found out in the course of the registration process for PhilSys that there were still people, mostly elderly living in remote areas, who still do not have birth certificates, thus the PBRAP was born, Llevado shared. (LDL/MMP/PIA Southern Leyte)
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