Under the contract awarded to Control Data (Thailand) Limited to Review, Design, and develop the Systems Requirements Specification (SRS) for the Civil Registration, Vital Statistics, and Identification (CRVSID) Management system of the Maldives, the firm conducts validation meetings with key stakeholders from 29th June to 2nd July 2025. This is the continuation of the series of meetings conducted from 9th to 13th February earlier this year.

Unlike other workshops jointly held in the past, this mission was conducted as focused working sessions with the relevant agencies, refining the initial draft with the comments provided by the parties. The teams met with the Department of National Registration (DNR), National Centre for Information Technology (NCIT), Local Government Authority (LGA), Department of Judicial Administration (DJA), Family Court, Male’ City Council (MCC), Ministry of Health (MoH).

The First session on 29th June aimed to present and validate the Civil Registration Workflow for Birth, Death, and Household registration, with participation from DNR, NCIT, LGA, and MCC.

The second session on 29th June 2025 focused on presenting and validating the Civil Registration Workflow for Marriage and Divorce registrations with DNR, DJA, and Family Court.

On 30th June 2025, CDT presented and validated the proposed infrastructure-related software and hardware for the CRVSID, as well as the new national identity card with DNR and NCIT. Additionally, the teams also presented an overview of the latest software design and got feedback on the changes.

On July 1, 2025, the ID Card and eFaas integration workflow was presented to DNR and NCIT. eFaas is the national digital identity of the Maldives and is verified against the Maldivian citizens' database maintained by the DNR.

The second meeting of the day was presenting the New Physical ID Card features and the Pre-Personalisation proposal by CDT. DNR and NCIT attended the meeting.

2nd July 2025 was a follow-up meeting of session one, presenting and validating the Civil Registration Workflow concerning Birth, Death registration and statistical data required by the health ministry. The meeting was conducted with the presence of technical personnel from the Ministry of Health, as recommended by the first session participants, along with DNR and NCIT.

As part of the work, D’MADD facilitated another meeting with the DJA and the Policy leadership at NCIT and DNR, to discuss the barriers to integrating the marriage and divorce registration into the CRVSID. This was based on privacy issues highlighted by the technical personnel of the Family Court and the DJA. The aim was to brainstorm policy solutions to have a more streamlined and digitally enabled mechanism that fulfils the requirements of the CRVSID as well as legal requirements by the Judiciary while maintaining confidentiality and integrity of the system.