60+ Countries
550+ Million People Impacted
The World Bank’s Identification for Development (ID4D) Initiative was created to help countries realize the transformational potential of inclusive and trusted identification (ID) systems, including civil registration. ID4D operates across the World Bank with global practices and units working on digital development, social protection, health, agriculture, financial inclusion and integrity, governance, gender, data protection, and research, among others. ID4D works closely with its sister Initiative—digitalizing government to person payments (G2Px)—to promote ID systems build as part of a broader service stack or Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) that can be leveraged to improve service delivery across sectors.
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ID4D's Pillars of Work
The initiative engages in three mutually-reinforcing types of work:
Knowledge
Developing resources to inform implementation and generating evidence on the impact of inclusive and trusted ID and civil registration systems
Convening
Contributing to the global agenda on defining best practices and principles, and facilitating cross-country knowledge exchange
Action
Providing technical assistance to countries and regional organizations on the design and implementation of their ID ecosystem
Principles
The ID4D Initiative
