Jaap van der Straaten is Chief Executive of the Civil Registration Centre for Development-CRC4D, based in The Hague, Netherlands.
CRC4D advises UNICEF, UNHCR, Plan International and Open Society Foundations, among others, in the field of civil registration and identification. Together with the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (Witwatersrand University, South Africa) CRC4D facilitates the exchange within The Hague Colloquium Collective that sprung up from The Hague Colloquium on the Future of Legal Identity, held early 2015.
CRC4D advises UNICEF, UNHCR, Plan International and Open Society Foundations, among others, in the field of civil registration and identification. Together with the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (Witwatersrand University, South Africa) CRC4D facilitates the exchange within The Hague Colloquium Collective that sprung up from The Hague Colloquium on the Future of Legal Identity, held early 2015.