holder a gateway to citizenship and national identity. It was stated that in that regard, the advocacy campaigns needed to get the people to fully appreciate the centrality and critical importance of birth registration in their lives. JCT engages the RG’s office whenever they have cases in which they need that office’s assistance in advocating the interests of children regarding birth registration. JCT expects such collaboration to be intensified in the future. LRF would like to see more campaigns targeting attitudinal change of parents on why birth certificates are necessary. SOS Bindura noted that there was need for more “legal literacy” for people to better understand the requirements of the laws on birth registration. CPS would like to see the scaling up of the review of legislation and a broadening of advocacy efforts at both community and national levels. CPS also noted that it was difficult to determine the duration of advocacy programmes but generally, such efforts require longer time frames. Birth Registration Research Report/2007 44