 The civil status registry acknowledged the demands for quality service placed on it by the citizenry was well justified and so sought to find new ways to do so. Leveraging ICT proved to have been the most viable option and the department set a new path towards automation. The effort proved to have been extremely useful in assisting the department in dealing with service delivery challenges brought on by the COVID-19 period. The department decided that it would utilize a three point strategy, namely automation, which would allow the department to have almost instant and accurate recording of all vital events as they occur. And also the reproduction of vital certificates. Secondly, making the services available online with assisted the department in providing in improving the accessibility and decentralization of key services. And finally, the restructuring of internal operations through the business process reengineering in provided an opportunity to improve service delivery, generally, one of the main mechanisms chosen at this time would have been the vital records a vital records management system, namely vital way vital way provided sorry, a digital mechanism for register the registration management. Preservation and production of certificates. It also provided ways for officers process during the processing of vital records to communicate and work collaboratively in achieving the end. It also provided a mechanism make management make management tools for monitoring and managing you employees. This was done through the audit trails that is built into the system, which assists the monitoring and tracking of changes that occur as they occur, as well as to provide data access at various levels, which was it would have been approved by management. It also assisted management in identifying and correcting the gaps, which would have existed even after a business process reengineering. Business process reengineering had had been done. Vital were also provided a point of sale module, which assisted in the linking of vitals vital records to the services demanded also provide a mechanism for receiving payments of those services. They also assisted in provided a mechanism for for data entry storage and retrieval, which also which provided which assisted the department in recording back his well historical records from 1865 to 2021. In addition, the new record new books, deaths, marriages and registrations were ongoing. Records are generally false kid. Double kid and verified and set to lock. This provides a way to ensure that the record being entered is done so in the most correct. And it that it is has been verified as being true to what is written on the register vital with these records can also. You can also attach paper base register paper, paper base registration, paper base registration story records or any other specimen which is used to to validate the record that is that has been entered. It also improved the querying and searching ability the search ability of those records of all records generally, which works a long way in assisting persons dealing with walking clients and or any other reason why the system need to be queried for finding information. In addition, the system also would have improved them reported mechanisms available to the department by providing direct direct reports set out and also provides electronic signatures and sales and shows that the registered the documents for printing are clean and they have been validated and also they can be uniquely identified. Some of the ongoing initiatives that may come about that came about through the use for the implementation of vital way was that it allowed for the transformation of general business activities by providing opportunities for the department to reshape the generally the division it's tough in arrangements and better the processes better the records management activity and also dealing with all paper based records. It improved drastically improved customer service and and and also allow the department to see some of the errors that that that occur in our service delivery mechanisms vital way through since it is electronic and it has been automated. It provides a very efficient ways efficient way of doing the things that the department needs to do in order to deliver a quality service and by providing and streamlining processes and reducing operating costs generally as a result of that come about as a result of dealing with paper. So by deal by removing paper in in some of the processes or the handling of people. This also assisted during the COVID period. Due to the fact that the department had to limit activity and the transferring or the possibility of transferring or infection in within the department. The organization the organization also can see that there are opportunities for expanding services. To faster delivery times and to provide the ability to track and conduct investigations into active applications that have been processed, and also expanding civil status registry from the four walls that it exists, probably to send out to the various districts. The implementation of vital where also extends its benefits in some in terms of the government as a whole. It provides the ability to create linkages within other systems or with other systems sorry on so benefit the nation as a whole. There's this can be done in a complete accurate and timely manner. It provides the mechanism for linking records at the base records for example linking books and death. If this would assist say for example, department of statistics. Depart say for example a electoral department, or even the national treasury. This so this is just some of the ways that the system will assist. Others external stakeholders. The use of predefined reporting as mentioned earlier, the system can be able to generate the reports that are meaningful, succinct and accurate. So we can deliver to our external clients or other stick other government stakeholders. They also assist in delivering a quality service to the public, and generally to provide for the department growth by providing the opportunity for delivering new products. For example, online creating an online registry by the increasing online services to improve searches to set do pretty fine access of information and or validate any certificate which have been issued by the department. So some of the major prerequisites for having rule out this system was the redoing or the legal and regulatory framework, which required the support of new law, new laws that supported the civil status registry in doing the digital transformation. For example, the deploying of a new service or the apostle or he did pull would require new laws to guide and to monitor this process. It also, which would allow for the application and amendment of records. Online and also generally to provide additional services, additional services. Some of the services that the, that did dig a golf that are available currently on dig a golf are the both applications and deaf application marriage is be currently being worked on and will be delivered soon civil status registry. We have some major areas in the which they wish to bring to provide on in an online platform on the online platform, and we have started with the certification of which we have delivered the both and deaf. We are looking to provide in registration. On the online platform, rectification of records, the re registration, late registration, and also providing the opportunity for stakeholders and clients to search records from online. Some of the impacts of the services to stakeholders could read down to convenience, efficient processing, timely delivery of services, and also providing new opportunities for SBA. There is a service bureau agents, which would be individuals that operate outside of the civil registry, but within the operation of the civil registry by utilizing person say for example, like a lawyer or an occlusion man to make various application for vital records on behalf of individuals who are not able to do so themselves on the online platform. With that, I would like to thank you for allowing me the opportunity to discuss with you some of the benefits that rolling out of vital way. To the civil status registry and to the citizenry as a whole, we are quite happy that we had done so at the time that we did. As I mentioned earlier in the beginning, it worked wonders in the service delivery during the pandemic and has opened up new opportunities and allowed management to see the service delivery. The online service delivery as a new area that can be explored and has proven to be useful to making life for the citizenry much easier and by providing accessibility and decentralization of services. Thank you very much.