As part of the Civil Registration Month observation, the Davao City Local Civil Registrar (LCR) will be conducting a user’s forum for allied national agencies, school registrars, and medical records clerks involved in the preparation of civil registry documents.
Ms. Shirley Arendain, Registration Officer IV of the LCR, said during the ISpeak Media Forum on Thursday that the user’s forum will be held on February 12 from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Sangguniang Panlungsod.
The forum intends to provide concerned national agencies, such as the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and Social Security System (SSS), that require the services of the LCR, school registrars, and medical records clerks with in-depth information and updates regarding civil registration.
The office will also be holding a mall tour from February 12 to February 18 at SM Lanang and SM Ecoland, where some of their clerks will be present to cater to queries, process registrations, and other civil registry concerns.
Arendain also said that they will be conducting mobile registrations in the second and third districts in the city particularly in Tapak, and Marilog, respectively.
She also said that in the mobile registration, the LCR’s mobile registration team is not the only one present to assist in the civil registration. Trained civil registration agents from the Barangay or the Barangay Civil Registration Agents (BACRA), school or the School Civil Registration Agents (SCRA), and the Indigenous Peoples groups or the Indigenous Peoples Civil Registration Agents (IPCRA) will also be present.
“Kini siya dili lang kay taga LCR lang ang mag-adto didto, kay naa man ta’y mobile registration team, pagasalmutan ni sa atoang mga natrain nga lain-lain na siya, kaning gitawag og BACRA, project na siya sa atoang opisina, kanang BACRA dugay-dugay na na siya, kanang gitawag og Barangay Civil Reg Agents, mga pinili na sa taga-barangay, lain lain nga barangay naa gyud na sila’y gi assign nga BACRA mao na sila ang mag assist sa mga civil registry documents halimbawa naay patay mao na to ang mag assist or naay manganak pwede na sila ang magcater ato kay ato man na silang gitrain [During the mobile registration, the LCR’s mobile registration team will be accompanied by our trained agents from the Barangay, we call them BACRA or the Barangay Civil Registration Agents. Every barangay has a BACRA assigned to assist in the civil registry documents such as birth certificates and death certificates since they are already trained],” she said.
The SCRA is composed of teachers and guidance counselors from different schools through a Memorandum of Agreement signed between the city government and the Department of Education (DepEd).
Meanwhile, the IPCRA is from the five different IP groups in Davao. Arendain said that the IPCRA has been a huge help in assisting with civil registration in their areas as the members of the IP groups are more comfortable around them. The agents also helped minimize miscommunication and relaying civil registration concerns from the IP groups.
The LCR continues to urge Dabawenyos to practice timely registration, and immediately report concerns and issues in their registration to the office. CIO