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Civic Registration for National Population Commission & UNICEF Nigeria

CBAS Nigeria

An offline-first system that turns community volunteers into a live data source for births that the national registry was never reaching — closing the gap between a home birth in a remote ward and an official record.

What it isOffline-first community birth alerting
Timeline2024 — present
StatusLive
775 LGAs
reachable — even fully offline
100% offline
birth capture on basic phones
Home → registry
closed the rural registration gap
True workforce
surfaced active vs dormant registrars nationwide
How it works
CBAS Nigeria — how it works
target The challenge

Across rural Nigeria a huge share of births happen at home, far from any government office — leaving millions of children invisible to the registry. The community volunteers meant to capture them often have no reliable internet, no technical training, and only basic phones.

build What we built on their data

We built a lightweight mobile app simple enough for any frontline volunteer, that works fully offline. It captures the birth location automatically and walks the volunteer through a short four-step form. The moment a signal appears it quietly syncs to the national system, where the local registrar sees the alert on their own map and confirms the birth with the family.

CBAS gives frontline volunteers a phone app simple enough to use anywhere, online or off, and gives registrars a live map of every birth alert waiting to be confirmed — feeding new, ground-truth data straight into the national system.

Inside the system
Offline-first mobileAutomatic location captureMap-based verificationField workforce visibilityBackground sync
Built with
FlutterDjangoGeospatialPostgreSQL
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