The Pacific Community (SPC) in collaboration with The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) are organizing a series of workshops in Kiribati to build capacity in medical certification of cause of death and the production of vital statistics from 10-13 September 2024.  These workshops will support the finalization of the Kiribati vital statistics report, capacity strengthening in medical certification of cause of death, drafting of CRVS action pl

The objective of the three-day workshop is to provide technical support and capacity strengthening to BPS and other relevant national stakeholders to facilitate the implementation of quantitative inequality assessments of CRVS systems using secondary data sources in Indonesia. This will involve building capacity for demographic analysis to undertake inequality assessments in the future as well as dialogue with policy-makers to ensure the results are used for policy formulation. 

One-day inception workshop will be organized by BPS in consultation with the national consultant and ESCAP Statistics Division. The workshop will invite all relevant national stakeholders and partner agencies. The BPS will take the lead in providing a briefing on the concept of the project, clarifying the roles and responsibilities of all relevant stakeholders as well as the modus operandi.

A virtual meeting of Pacific Civil Registrars Network (PCRN) will be organized with support from ESCAP and the Pacific Community (SPC) on 31 July 2024, at 08:00 – 09:00 am. Bangkok time (GMT+7) via Microsoft Teams.