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Comprehensive project for technological upgrade in the General
Register Office of Honduras
Background
In Honduras the Civil Register was created ascribed to the catholic parishes of the country in
the 1890’s, which activity was afterwards transferred to the Office of the Municipal Mayor,
where it kept on as a decentralized body until 1982 when by a Decree of the National Congress
the General Register Office was created and which took over all functions, depending from the
National Electoral Court, with the responsibilities of the Civil Register, National Individuals’
Identification and elaboration of the National Electoral Census. Some years later, in 2004
through a decree of the National Congress the General Register Office (RNP) was created as an
autonomous and independent special organization with national authority, with functions and
procedures of civil status registration and of management and issuance of registration documents
for which it was declared a National Security Institution as it was closely related to social
security, and with the goals of planning, organizing, conducting and managing the integrated
system of civil registration and identification of natural individuals with the highest security.
To this effect it developed methods, techniques, modern procedures, technological, scientific
and specialized controls, for a secure, comprehensive, efficient and effective management of
registry information and documents. Therefore, the main activity of the General Register Office
is the efficient and permanent management of the Civil Register System, the registration of all
citizens’ acts and facts from which the National Identification System is derived, what generates
the Identity Card and is the basis for the Supreme Electoral Court to elaborate the National
Electoral Census as a registry of citizen(s) legally capable to vote in internal, primary and general
elections of the country.
In 1984 an inventory of registrations at national level was performed and the unique numerical
code of thirteen (13) digits for every individual was established; page numbers were assigned
to the pages of the registration books to prevent modifications and to facilitate the capture
of Department codes, Municipality, year of registration and correlative number of registration
within each municipality; it is restarted every year. The structure of such Code is the following.
o The first four (4) digits designate the department code and the registration municipality;
o The following four (4) digits designate the year of registration and,
o The remaining five (5) digits correspond to the number of the registration act in every
municipality, assigned in a chronological order of presentation and it is restarted every year.
The Department code hast two digits (01 through 18 and 20 for the Hondurans born in USA);
the number variance is established by the alphabetic order of the Department name. If a new
department is created, or existing ones are merged, the code assigned will be the one following
the last one.
The Municipality code was established with similar criteria: the department head municipality
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