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2025 review of CRVS progress in Asia and the Pacific

Members and Associate Members of ESCAP are currently undertaking a review of their progress since the inception of the Asia Pacific CRVS Decade in 2014. A questionnaire has been distributed to National CRVS focal points and should be returned to ESCAP by 15 September.
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2024 Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Applied Research Training Initiative

The CRVS applied research training (CART) initiative focuses on enhancing CRVS systems through supporting applied research on strategies, interventions, and tools. This involves designing projects to address practical questions, employing robust methodologies, and identifying key personnel for effective implementation and publication. The need to strengthen practitioners' research capacity is evident, as highlighted in the Asia-Pacific CRVS research forum held in 2023.

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Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems Improvement Framework

To meet the targets of the CRVS Decade, a Business Process Improvement approach can help improve and streamline Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) system. The CRVS Systems Improvement Framework help CRVS stakeholders assess, analyze and redesign, to improve user experience and produce timely vital statistics.

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Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Inequality Assessments

The Ministerial Declaration on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific emphasizes the need to address CRVS inequalities among hard-to-reach and marginalized populations, promoting universality and equity in civil registration regardless of factors such as gender, religion, or ethnicity. Countries are encouraged to conduct assessments to assess where such inequalities may exist.

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The CRVS community in Asia and the Pacific has reflected on where it stands at the midpoint of the CRVS Decade (2015-2024) during the Second Ministerial Conference. Following this celebration of progress, many of our partners and member countries are leading actions to fill the remaining gaps.

To learn more about CRVS in Asia and the Pacific, please subscribe to our newsletter, which offers a monthly panorama of CRVS actions throughout the region

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Review of National Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems: A Case Study of Thailand

Report of the comprehensive assessment on national CRVS system of Thailand.

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Massive Open Online Course. Death 101 Shaping the Future of Global Health

This global health and life sciences course enables learners to investigate health problems affecting large populations – the whole world in fact! By understanding the big numbers in global mortality and their causes and distributions you will learn how to think numerically about global health. We will use real data from real people to ask the questions: What are the major causes of death in the world? Why do we need cause of death statistics? How does counting the dead help the living?

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CRVS Insight December 2015

Deadline for reporting of national targets and baseline data

Workshop for Asian national CRVS focal points held in Bangkok

Training Course on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems

New CRVS decade webpage www.getinthepicture.org is now available

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Estimating mortality using data from civil registration: a crosssectional study in India

Objective To analyse the design and operational status of India’s civil registration and vital statistics system and facilitate the system’s development into an accurate and reliable source of mortality data.

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Report on national targets and baseline data, Thailand

As part of the reporting structure of the Regional Action Framework on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) in Asia and the Pacific, by the end of 2015, members and associate members are required to submit a baseline report to the ESCAP Secretariat through their designated national focal point. This report is the report submitted by Thailand.

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CRVS Insight November 2015

- SDG target 16.9 on legal identity

- Bloomberg Data For Health (D4H) Initiative

- Reporting on national targets and current CRVS situation

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CRVS Insight September 2015

- President declares 2015-2024 as CRVS decade in Philippines

- Guidelines for setting and monitoring the goals and targets of the Regional Action Framework on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Asia and the Pacific - now available!

- UNICEF releases videos on birth registration in Kiribati, Vanauatu and Solomon Islands

- Workshop on Vital Statistics and the 'Get Every One in the Picture' initiative in Istanbul

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CRVS Insight August 2015

First meeting of the Regional Steering Group for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Asia and the Pacific (28-30 July, Bangkok)

Guidelines for setting and monitoring the goals and targets of the Regional Action Framework on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific are currently being developed

National Focal Points are now identified in 33 countries of the region.