• Asia-Pacific Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Research Forum

    The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) will organize the first Asia-Pacific CRVS Research Forum to be held from 3 – 4 April 2023. Hosted by ESCAP in Bangkok, this fully online event offers a major research, information sharing, and capacity-building opportunity for participants, who will be able to present at and attend paper presentations and interactive sessions, including networking opportunities.

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  • Second Ministerial Conference on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific

    The Second Ministerial Conference on CRVS took place from the 16th to 19th November, 2021. It has been the occasion to celebrate progress through the CRVS Decade (2015-2024), identify remaining challenges, emphasize CRVS for sustainable development and promote CRVS as the foundation for legal identity.

    Recordings, side-events and preparatory and outcome documents can be consulted on this website.

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  • Launch of Getting Every One in the Picture - a snapshot of progress midway through the Asian and Pacific Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Decade

    In preparation of the Second Ministerial Conference on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific held from 16 to 19 November 2021, ESCAP has prepared a report on the situation of CRVS systems in the region. By celebrating the progresses and highlighting the challenges remaining to achieving universal registration systems, the report aims at shaping the priorities for the second half of the Decade.

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  • Resources for civil registration during the COVID-19 pandemic

    The current pandemic is disrupting CRVS systems all over the world, but also highlighting why well-functioning systems are more essential than ever. As a result, the UN Statistics Division, the World Health Organization and the UN Legal Identity Agenda Task Force developed COVID-19 resources offering guidance for civil registration stakeholders on maintaining CRVS activities.

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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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Practices, Legal, and Practical Barriers to Birth Registration in Nepal

This paper will be presented at the Asia-Pacific CRVS Research Forum, held online on 3–4 April 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand. This paper is listed on agenda item 3.3 of session 3.

Presenting speaker:

  • Indu Tuladhar, Himal Innovative Development and Research, Nepal

Co-authors:

  • Lumana Upreti, Himal Innovative Development and Research, Nepal

Keywords: Birth registration, Barriers, Practices

Integrating Gender-Equity in CRVS Legal Review and Reform Processes

This paper will be presented at the Asia-Pacific CRVS Research Forum, held online on 3–4 April 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand. This paper is listed on agenda item 3.2 of session 3.

Presenting speaker:

  • Aditi Saxena, Practising Lawyer, India

Co-authors:

  • Vandana Shah, Global Health Advocacy Incubator, United States of America
  • Lidiya Teklemariam, Global Health Advocacy Incubator, United States of America

Lessons from implementation research of the Kaliganj model: A Sustainable project to improve birth and death registration in Bangladesh

This paper will be presented at the Asia-Pacific CRVS Research Forum, held online on 3–4 April 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand. This paper is listed on agenda item 2.4 of session 2.

Presenting speaker:

  • Dr. Shah Ali Akbar Ashrafi, MIS, DGHS, Bangladesh

Co-authors:

Inequality of Opportunity in Asia and the Pacific: The case of birth registration in Fiji

This paper will be presented at the Asia-Pacific CRVS Research Forum, held online on 3–4 April 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand. This paper is listed on agenda item 3.6 of session 3.

Presenting speaker: Selahattin Selsah Pasali and  Weixun Hu, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Thailand

Keywords: CRVS, birth registration, leaving no one behind, inequality of opportunity, Fiji

Applying legal analysis and business process mapping for CRVS system strengthening: Lessons from three districts study in Indonesia

This paper will be presented at the Asia-Pacific CRVS Research Forum, held online on 3–4 April 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand. This paper is listed on agenda item 4.5 of session 4.

Presenting speaker:

  • Muhammad Cholifihani, The Ministry of National Development Planning/National Development Planning Agency, Indonesia

Co-authors:

Civil Registration Vital Statistics (CRVS) Inception Workshop for Assessing Inequalities in Registration in Samoa

The inception workshop will be a participatory workshop to introduce the project, further develop relationships among relevant stakeholders (data providers, data users, and policy makers), discuss challenges with doing such an inequality assessment, and collaboratively develop a plan for the way forward.

Legal Identity Systems in Asia and the Pacific: Civil Registration, Vital Statistics and Identity Management

This paper discusses the relationship between civil registration and identity management systems in Asia and the Pacific, providing an overview of the approaches taken to develop and strengthen legal identity systems. It describes the functionalities of legal identity systems and the key components of  present-day systems, highlighting the increasing role of digitization and structural re‑organization in system reforms.

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Country Assessments and Strategies, Report, 2023
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