This is a presentation by Yodahe A. Zemichael, Principal Technical Advisor, Office of the Ethiopian Prime Minister, at the 3rd Annual East Africa FInance Summit

1. “The Role of National Identity System
and Public-private
Value-added Services”
Yodahe Z 19/12/2018
FEDERAL DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC OF ETHIOPIA
OFFICE OF THE PRIME
MINISTER
PMO TECHNOLOGY TEAM

2. eID Project for Ethiopia
National ID
•In 2011, National ID Project Office was form
by the government
•The objective was to ensure a unique and
unified electronic ID provision for the nation
No Central Registry
No Guarantee For
Uniqueness
Bureaucratic and not
easily obtainable
Prone to Corruption
Easy for forgery
and alteration
Not deduplicated
Not continuous
over time

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eID Project for Ethiopia
National ID
• MoP currently is mandated to lead the
NatID project, under VERA
• PMO and MInT are among the primary
supporting institutions for NatID
•AA, Adama and a few other City
Administrations have started an
independent electronic ID within their
jurisdictions
Project Status
• Kebele ID is the most important form of
personal identification for a nation is
archaic and manual, which is issued by
local administrators in more than 16,000
kebeles across the country
• It gives legal identity and allows
individuals to conduct public or private

4. IdentityManagement
Architecture

5. National Election Board of Ethiopia
National Elections
•Next National Election to be held within 1,5 years and up to 50million
voters expected
•As per this administration’s direction, elections are expected to use modern
technology. May include
•Electronic voter registration
•Automated vote result transmission
•Experience to be drawn from other African countries e.g. Zimbabwe,
Ghana, Senegal,…
• NEBE, an independent body, is responsible for elections Project Status
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6. Central Statistics Authority
National Census
•National census had been postponed for a long time expected
to be held within a few months
•The census is expected to cover 100% of the population in all
areas (~105million)
•Modernization Steps: Data encoders to carry tablets for
electronic data gathering (140,000+ encoders)
•Scope is demographic + spatial only (not biometric)
Project Status
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Biometric Database
Federal Police
Passport holders with
biometric and demographic
data
National Immigration
2million 5million
Integration services have to be put in place to
ensure that all these interlinked datasets are
brought together for the National Projects
Consolidation for Big Data
Data and Resources that can be pooled and leveraged
Related Resources
Others
• VERA (100m) (Birth, Death,
Marriage…)
• TIN, Immigration
• AA, City Admins (2m +)
• Driving License (1m +)
• Public Service Pension Card
(1.5m +)
• Community Based Health
Insurance (0.7m)
• Civil Service ID (3m +)

8. Executive Committee
• Who?
• PMO
• MoP
• MInT
• CSA
• NEBE
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• Mission
• Synergise the civic
registration, event
registration
projects so that it
can be leveraged by
NatID, Elections
and other national
projects
• Operation
• Will convene every
month
• Will take inputs
from the technical
committee
Focused on Strategic Matters and Directions, Project Risk and Issues

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Strategic Pillars
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1. Ensure that any civil enrollment in the country has both biometric and
demographic inputs suitable for NCR
2. Ensure that this gathered data enters the central NCR database
3. Consider both bottom-up and top-down data gathering
A. Integration services to regularize, adjudicate and add old civic
databases
B. Based on SC’s input, ensure that the current priority project’s
enrollment strategy accommodates future national projects

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• Mission
• Design strategy, supervise, followup
and evaluate the synergy between
NatID, Nat Census, Nat Elections,
Vital Events registration…
• Operation
• Will form “working group”
within MoP, CSA, Nat
Elections
• Will take inputs from the
working committees,
Implementation, Day-to-day activity and Project level stakeholder coordination
Program Office

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VERA
UNDP, Canadian Cooperation
Good governance initiatives
Local/International Tech Companies
Government and Non-Governmental
Organizations
Institutions in Scope
PMO - Prime Minister’s Office
MInT - Ministry of Innovation and Technology
NEBE - National Election Board of Ethiopia
Office of the Attorney General
MoP - Ministry of Peace
Central Statistics Authority
MOFEC
SMEs
EthioTelecom, EEU, EEP
Cities, Regions, Zones, Woredas, Kebele Admins
Financial Sector, NBE, World Bank, EU

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Government and Non-Governmental
Organizations
Institutions in Scope
PMO - Prime
Minister’s Office
MInT - Ministry of
Innovation and
Technology
NEBE - National
Election Board of
Ethiopia
Office of the
Attorney General
MoP - Ministry
of Peace
CSA - Central
Statistics
Authority
MOFEC
PDC
2012
National Elections
VERA/INVEA
NatID VER
Immigration
Nationality
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Resource Sharing
• Data Pooling
• Different databases and organized data
• Network Infrastructure
• Woredanet, Internet facilities, EthioTelecom
• Physical Infrastructure
• Kebeles
• Voting stations
• Data Gathering
• Multi-purpose data encoders, gathering devices
• Outsourcing information gathering to SMEs
• Pooling Financial Resources
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15. • Given the importance of a proper identity system for the financial
sectors, what African/global precedents are there to let banks and other
PPPs participate?
Questionstoconsider…

16. Thank YouOffice of the Prime Minister
Yodahe Z 19/12/2018