The stakeholders are pushing for stronger integration of birth registration with primary healthcare services, greater decentralisation of registration centres to local communities and seamless interoperability between civil registration and national identity systems. Onoise identified inadequate registration centres, long distances to service points, language barriers, inefficient registration processes and insufficient financial, human and material resources among factors limiting access to civil registration services. He said, “The main challenges to accelerate civil registration and legal identity in Nigeria include limited accessibility to civil registration services, inadequate number of registration centres and associated long distances, language barriers, inefficient registration processes, and insufficient financial, human capacity and material resources.” Local governments would play a critical role by bringing registration services closer to families through ward and community-level registration points and integrating birth registration into primary healthcare services. This, they said, would make birth registration less dependent on parents making separate journeys to registration centres.