Erradicação do sub-registro civil no estado do Amapá na perspectiva da política pública estadual.

Abstract

Access to the Civil Registry of Birth provides citizenship and identity; inclusion, not only in terms of access to public policies, but also as a person with rights, a name and an identity. A person without birth registration is invisible in the eyes of the state and is unable to be guaranteed even basic rights, such as health, education, welfare and social benefits. Up until 2003, almost 750 million children born every year in Brazil did not have civil birth registration. Under-registration began to be reduced as a result of public policies specifically aimed at this issue, such as the civil registration campaign promoted by the Ministry of Health (1999) and the Child and Adolescent Friendly President Plan (2004-2007) (UNICEF, 2005). Under- registration, however, was only steadily eradicated after the enactment of Decree No. 6.289, of December 6, 2007, which established a national policy with objectives to be achieved in 10 years, between 2008 and 2018. The general aim of this research is to analyze the situation regarding the eradication of civil under-registration in the state of Amapá, from the perspective of government public policy, based on the civil birth registration figures released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) from 2016 to 2020. It provides an overview of the civil registry of natural persons, both in terms of its historical and formal aspects linked to civil under-registration, as well as the national commitment to eradicating it, from a public policy perspective. This research is characterized as descriptive and exploratory, with a quantitative approach and technical procedures of survey and documentary research. It uses a census-type sample made up of the civil registration numbers of births in the 16 municipalities in the state of Amapá. As a result of the research, it was found that the problem highlighted has received due attention from the state, in the implementation of public policy aimed at eradicating civil under-registration of the vulnerable population, resulting in the social inclusion of these individuals. Finally, it was found that the state of Amapá is close to eradicating civil under-registration if it continues to invest in ways to guarantee effective civil registration for the entire community.