The World Bank Task Team Participants, represented by Jérôme Bezzina, Task Team Leader and Senior Digital Development Specialist, and Anna Zita Metz, Program Officer, recently held a meeting with the Department of National Registration (DNR) as part of the DMADD project.

The primary objective of the meeting was to identify the potential areas where the project can provide technical assistance, capacity building and modernization of the civil registry system with provision of hardware and software, under the DMADD project

The meeting was attended by Dr. Ibrahim Waheed, Project Manager, Ahmed Haleem, Communications Specialist from DMADD, and Mohamed Sharif Ahmed, Project Coordinator from the National Center for Information Technology (NCIT), as well as Aishath Rasheeda, Deputy Minister, and Mohamed Umair, Director from DNR.

During the meeting, the participants discussed the current state of the DNR and how the DMADD project could provide support. The meeting was an important step in the collaboration between the World Bank, DMADD, and the DNR to ensure the success of the project.