National digital identity

Governing entity

Department of National ID and Civil Registry (NICR)

Status of implementation

Active

Legally binding redress mechanism

Legally established mechanism

URL

NA

Last Updated

01/10/24

Claim digital ID

YES

ID or Civil Registry Act

YES

Regulation for digital ID

YES

Identity act codifies legal status

NO

Identity act sets up procedural rules for data management

NO

Identity act clarifies relationship with feeder documents

NO

Terms of data storage and sharing available

NO

National Data Protection Act exists

YES

Data leak disclosure process exists

YES

Data handling terms exist

NO

Uses biometrics

YES

Enables authentication

YES

Enables KYC

YES

Enables authentication via government portal

NA

Two or more sectoral use cases enabled

YES

Domestic IPS

Payment system type

NA

Status of implementation

Pilot

Operator

NA

National or Regional

National

Annual value of transactions (USD)

NA

Annual volume of transactions

NA

Cost of transactions

NA

Participants

NA

Types of transactions supported

NA

Type of settlement system

NA

URL

https://www.africanenda.org

Last Updated

01/10/24

Active real-time payment system

NO

Cross-border payments

NA

QR code transactions

NA

Bank participation

NA

Non-bank participation

NA

Interoperability policy

NA

Participation rules

NA

Data-handling rules

NA

Reporting forum

NA

AML Law

NA

Base technical architecture

NA

Status of implementation

Active

Governing Entity

Ministry of Transport and Communications

Coordination unit

Ministry of Transport and Communications

National or Regional

National

Sector-specific or Cross-sectoral

Cross-sectoral

Permitted participants

NA

Ownership

Public

URL

https://www.afdb.org

Last Updated

01/10/24

Semantic interoperability

NA

Real-time sharing

NA

Scalable architecture

NA

Auditable

NA

Procedural rules for data mgmt

NA

Enrolment and participation information

NA

Used by more than one public entity

NA

Impact metrics

NA