National Registration and Identification System (NRIS)

Governing entity

National Registration Bureau (NRB)

Status of implementation

Pilot

Legally binding redress mechanism

NA

Funding organizations identified

World Bank

Technical Support organizations identified

UNDP EU Irish Aid

URL

NA

Last Updated

01/10/24

Claim of digital ID

YES

ID or Civil Registry Act

YES

Regulation for digital ID

NO

Codified digital ID legal status

NO

Procedural rules for digital ID enrolment

NO

Relationship with feeder documents

NO

Terms of data storage and sharing available

NO

National Data Protection Act

NO

Data leak disclosure process

NO

Data handling terms exist

NO

Collects or uses biometric data

YES

Digital authentication function

NA

Enables KYC packet collection

NA

Authentication through government portal

NA

Two or more sectoral use cases enabled

NA

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Payment system type

Cross-domain payment system

Status of implementation

Active

Operator

Bank association

National / Regional

National

Annual value of transactions (USD)

2022- USD 312 M

Annual volume of transactions

2022- 11.5 M

Cost of transactions

NA

Number of participants

2023- 13

Types of transactions supported

P2P P2M

Type of settlement system

NA

URL

https://www.africanenda.org

Last Updated

01/10/24

Active real-time payment system present

YES

Cross-border payments

NA

QR code transactions

NO

Bank participation

YES

Non-bank participation

YES

Interoperability policy

NA

Participation conditions and rules

NA

Data-handing rules for payment system

NA

Reporting forum

NA

AML Law

YES

Base technical architecture

ESB

Status of implementation

Pilot

Governing Entity

Ministry of Information and Digitalization

Coordination unit

Ministry of Information and Digitalization

National / Regional

NA

Sector-specific / Cross-sectoral

NA

Permitted participants

NA

Ownership

Public

URL

https://www.pppc.mw

Last Updated

01/10/24

Semantic interoperability

NA

Real-time sharing

NA

Scalable architecture

NA

Audit mechanism

NA

Procedural rules for data mgmt.

NA

Enrolment and participation information

NA

Used by more than one public entity

NA

Impact metrics

NA