mohsw.gov.lr Apply For Birth Certificate Liberia : Ministry of Health & Social Welfare

Organization : Ministry of Health & Social Welfare (MOH)
Type of Facility : Apply For Birth Certificate
Country: Liberia
Website : http://moh.gov.lr/
Download Form : https://www.statusin.org/uploads/7348-BAF.pdf

How To Apply For MOH Birth Certificate?

Follow the below procedures to Apply for MOH Birth Certificate. Download the form and fill up the form with following details.

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Requirement

1. Road to Health Card;
2. Copy of the first three pages of passport;
3. Driver’s License;
4. Valid Identification Card (ID);
5. Original copy of parents naturalization document;
6. Copy of school application form approved by the principal/registrar’s office;
7. One passport size photo (white background) and one passport size photo of relative from 1970 and up;
8. Baptismal Certificate.

Note:
Bring any of the above with one photo of the appicant (White) and one photo of relative

0 – 12 Years : Free
13 & Above: $500 Ld

Birth Registration

Birth registration became legal through “Birth and Death Registration Act” of 1971, which made compulsory the registration of births and deaths in the Republic of Liberia.

Chapter 51 (§51.25), Subchapter B of the 1976 Public Health Law (PHL) states that “The birth of each child born alive in the Republic shall be registered within fourteen days after the date of birth by filing with the registrar of the district in which the birth occurred a report of such births, which report shall be upon the form prescribed therefore by the Principal Registrar”.

Prior to the war in 1990, birth registration was carried out in public hospitals, where County Health Registrars and District Registrars were responsible for birth registration.

However, on account of the war, the birth registration system and structures collapsed. At the time, there was no cost attached to the issuance of birth certificates; they were issued free-of-charge manually

Due to the damage done to the system and structures for birth registration, the activity became centralized during the 90s and for some time following the war.

In addition, birth certificates were manually produced until 1999, when birth certificate production was contracted out to a private firm, the Monrovia Development Management Company (MDMC) for 10 years (1999 – 2009) and a computerized system was thereafter introduced.

During this period, the cost of birth certificate was US$20.00 for all ages, until 2004 when certificates for Under-5s became free and those for persons aged 5 years and above were L$800.00.

In 2006, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, with support from Plan-Liberia, conducted a birth registration study to assess the magnitude of the situation and generate the required evidence for advocacy and planning.

In 2007 with support from Plan-Liberia, a pilot of birth registration program was implemented in Bomi County, using manual birth registration. The lessons learned from this pilot exercise informed the current decentralization process.

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