{"id":253,"date":"2015-02-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/kenya-implements-biometric-registration-for-all-citizens\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T07:11:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T07:11:40","slug":"kenya-implements-biometric-registration-for-all-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/kenya-implements-biometric-registration-for-all-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya implements biometric registration for all citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kenyan government has implemented biometric registration for all citizens aged 12 and older, which should help prevent the duplication and mismanagement of funds for social services, according to a report by Capital FM.<\/p>\n<p>Previously reported, the Kenyan government announced in November it would be issuing citizens biometric identification cards connected to a national database to prevent the widespread use of bogus identification documents which has contributed to crimes such as human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>The move to reduce the duplication and mismanagement of funds is part of Kenya\u2019s first Social Protection Week, which is designed to create a stronger infrastructure connecting all of the country\u2019s government agencies that provide social assistance and security.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biometricupdate.com\/201502\/kenya-implements-biometric-registration-for-all-citizens\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kenyan government has implemented biometric registration for all citizens aged 12 and older, which should help prevent the duplication and mismanagement of funds for social services, according to a report by Capital FM. Previously reported, the Kenyan government announced in November it would be issuing citizens biometric identification cards connected to a national database [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-east-africa","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-396","item-theme-birth-registration","item-theme-identity-documents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4188,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/4188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}