Zambia 14th the Reduction of Statelessness (Uruguay); 103.54. Adopt the necessary measures to guarantee easy and effective access to free birth registration (Mexico); 103.54 pending Addendum: 26. Zambia notes the concerns raised on birth registration. Zambia remains committed to promoting birth registration in the country and that, already, some measures have been put in place to promote this. These are: (a) Increased awareness campaigns on birth registration countrywide, with support from cooperating partners such as UNICEF and Plan International; (b) Involvement of traditional leaders in birth registration of children in their communities through the reintroduction of village registers in chiefdoms; and (c) Capacity development of the Department of the Registrar of Births and Deaths through training and provision of computers and transport. 27. The Department of National Registration, Passport and Citizenship under the Ministry of Home Affairs which is charged with birth registration, is currently in the process of re-engineering its business processes in order to improve service delivery. To this effect an Integrated National Registration System is being developed under the Support to the Electoral Cycle in Zambia. 28. Birth registration is one of the key sub-systems to be developed and feed into the integrated one. This sub-system will be designed to link with the Ministry of Health for birth record. As the integrated system is developed, rural registration will be enhanced since officers will be collecting this information on a regular basis to update the main system. More officers have been recruited to improve staffing levels in the district 12