This Legal Identity thematic paper focuses on the role that the World Bank Group (WBG) can play to prioritize access to legal identity as a desired goal in countries hosting significant numbers of displaced people to support solutions and inclusive development outcomes.
The paper underlines the need for reliable statistics and data about the extent of the problem in forced displacement contexts and calls for comprehensive analysis frameworks that take into consideration specific vulnerabilities faced by refugees and internally displaced people.
The WBG is possibly the biggest development actor in the field of legal identity and a champion of the Principles on Identification for Sustainable Development. It is well positioned to lead on evidence generation and analysis as well as promoting stakeholder engagement and knowledge sharing for inclusive ID and civil registration systems.
