Jaap van der Straaten

Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D

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Netherlands

http://www.crc4d.com

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Scholarly Papers (29)

1.

Identification for Development It Is Not: ‘Inclusive and Trusted Digital ID Can Unlock Opportunities for the World’s Most Vulnerable.’- a Review

Number of pages: 154 Posted: 11 Feb 2021
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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Digital ID, Identification, Civil Registration, Inclusion, Aadhaar, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Sustainable Development Goals, Legal Identity

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Hundred Years of Servitude. From Kipande to Huduma Namba in Kenya

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 19 Mar 2020
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
Downloads 249 (244,659)
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national ID, identity card, ID, civil registration, biometrics, kipande, Huduma Namba

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South Africa ID Case Study

World Bank Group, 2019
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 03 Apr 2020
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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Civil Registration and Identification, Legal Identity, Elections, ID, Population Register

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Birth Registration for Every Child by 2030: Are we on track? Review and Annotated Version of an Unhelpful UNICEF Publication

Number of pages: 102 Posted: 27 Aug 2020
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
Downloads 182 (328,385)
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Civil Registration and Identification, Legal Identity, SDG 16.9, UNICEF, World Bank, UNDP

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Uganda's Sine Qua Non National ID - Without Which, Not

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 27 May 2022
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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national ID, civil registration and identification, exclusion

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AlgorithmWatch. Citizen scoring in Ghana, Rwanda, Tunisia, Uganda, Zimbabwe and China. Berlin (2019). A Review, Surabaya

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 28 May 2020
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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identity management, citizen scoring, civil registration, social protection, surveillance, big data

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Legal Identity, Development and Democracy in Northern Europe

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 01 Jun 2022
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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church registration, civil registration, national ID, identification, population register, well-being, social protection, trust, government effectiveness, citizenship, elections, democracy

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Suriname's Economie en de Ontwikkelingssamenwerking tussen Nederland en Suriname (The Economy of Suriname and the Development Cooperation between The Netherlands and Suriname)

Economisch-Statistische Berichten. Rotterdam, November 1984
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 01 Jul 2020
Marein van Schaaijk and Jaap van der Straaten
Micro Macro Consultants and Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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The Netherlands, Suriname, Economy, Development Cooperation Policy, Self-Reliance, Democratization

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Constitutional Conduct Group. An Open Letter to the Citizens of India. CAA-NPR-NRIC. Review and Annotated Version

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 10 Apr 2020
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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CAA, NRIC, NPR, legal identity, population register, Aadhaar

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Legal Identity for All, or Not? On the Measurement of Birth Registration Completeness

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 23 Mar 2022
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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birth registration, legal identity, vital statistics, SDG 16.9

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The Aadhaar Mirage. A Second Look at the World Bank's 'Model' for Digital ID Systems

New York University School of Law Centre for Human Rights and Global Justice 2022 (blogpost)
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 08 Aug 2022
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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digital welfare state, digital ID, Aadhaar, India, human rights, economic and social rights, World Bank, civil registration, identification, public law, state capacity

12.

The High Cost of Legal Identity in Africa

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 03 Apr 2020
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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Innovations in Monitoring Vital Events. Mobile Phone SMS Support to Improve Coverage of Birth and Death Registration.A Scalable Solution (From Tanzania) - A Review

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 31 Aug 2021
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
Downloads 69 (655,579)
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civil registration, pilot project, mobile phone use case, birth registration, Tanzania

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The blind spot in the 2021 World Bank estimate of the number of people without proof of legal identity

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 17 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2024
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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Legal Identity for All by 2030: How Will We Know.

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 01 Jun 2020
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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So You Think Digital Is the Future. Your Internet Data Are Rotting

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 03 Apr 2020
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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civil registration and identification, civil register, archiving, digitisation, permanent records

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Plutocratic State. Elite Privilege and Bungled Identity Management at the Jugular of Democracy in Ghana

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 15 Dec 2021
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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identity management, civil registration, national ID, elections, decentralisation, democracy

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African Countries Struggle to Build Robust Identity Systems. But That May Soon Change, Thanks to the awkward capture of The Economist

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 07 May 2020 Last Revised: 23 Aug 2021
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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civil registration and identification, national ID, Aadhaar

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Of Democracy and Elections — in Reverse. On the Exorbitant (Increase in the) Cost of Elections in Africa

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 03 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2022
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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Elections, Election Technology, Identification, Election Administration Cost, Democracy

20.

A Passport to Protection: A Guide to Birth Registration Programming

United Nations Children’s Fund, A Passport to Protection: A guide to birth registration programming, UNICEF, New York, 2013.
Number of pages: 164 Posted: 11 Jan 2022
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D, Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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birth registration, civil registration, child protection, programming

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Legally Belonging in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Status of Legal Identity (Conference (Re)Imagining Belonging in Latin America and Beyond)

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 21 Jul 2021
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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Civil Registration, Digital ID, National ID, Identification, Latin America and the Caribbean, Civil Registration and Identification History

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Is Data for Health–Funded Research Reliable and Useful? Self-Reporting Bias Red Herring in Birth Registration Completeness Evaluation

Number of pages: 99 Posted: 21 Mar 2022
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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civil registration, birth registration, vital statistics, completeness estimation, UNICEF, Data for Health, self-reporting bias

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ID4D Country Diagnostic Uganda

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 06 Jun 2024
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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civil registration, national ID, governance, organisation and management

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Mobile phonicide in identity management. Reassessing the case of Ghana's m-birth.

Number of pages: 106 Posted: 07 Dec 2021
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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civil registration, birth registration, identity management, "mCRVS", mobile phone

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UNSD Review Omnibus. A Review of and Inputs to UNSD Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Standards and Methods Publications, 2010 to Date. Rotterdam, May 2020

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 02 Jun 2020
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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civil registration, vital statistics, legal framework, development communication

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The World Bank’s 2021 Estimate of the Number of People Without Proof of Legal Identity is a Statistical Witches' Brew

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 26 Apr 2024
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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legal identiy, birth registration, ID, UNICEF, World Bank, SDG 16.9.1

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Machiavelli in Fort Zeelandia—achtergronden van de ontwikkelingen in Suriname.

Number of pages: 24
Jaap van der Straaten, Marein van Schaaijk and Meine Pieter van Dijk
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D, Micro Macro Consultants and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
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Suriname en Nederland. Hoe verder?

Number of pages: 22
Jaap van der Straaten, Meine Pieter van Dijk and Marein van Schaaijk
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) and Micro Macro Consultants
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Naar een hervatting van de verdragshulp aan Suriname

Number of pages: 10
Marein van Schaaijk and Jaap van der Straaten
Micro Macro Consultants and Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D
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Other Papers (1)

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Asian Civil Registrars General Convention on the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Convention of the Rights of the Child

Posted: 27 Jan 2022
Jaap van der Straaten
Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D

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birth registration, civil registration, legal identity