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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.

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Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Closing Workshop for Assessing Inequalities in Registration

The inequality assessment project seeks to provide technical support and capacity strengthening to the Samoa Bureau of Statistics and other relevant national stakeholders to facilitate the implementation of CRVS inequality assessments using secondary data sources in Samoa. This has involved an inception workshop to introduce the project and two technical capacity building workshops which aimed to strengthen capacity of national CRVS stakeholders in demogr

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National Capacity Building and Consultation Workshop for the Assessment, Analysis and Redesign of CRVS Business Processes in Fiji

This project aims to support the Government of Fiji in strengthening its CRVS system by analyzing and possibly redesigning its CRVS business processes. The project will lead to a full description of the processes, a list of performance issues, and prioritized redesign ideas to improve the processes.

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Side event at the 7th Asia Pacific Population Conference on Getting everyone in the picture: investing in children

UNICEF, ESCAP Statistics Division and Vital Strategies will jointly organize the side event at the 7th Asia Pacific Population Conference on Getting everyone in the picture: investing in children.

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Global Seminar on Quality Assurance of Administrative and Other Data Sources

The UN Expert Group on National Quality Assurance Frameworks (EG-NQAF) and its Subgroup on administrative and other data sources are hosting a global seminar on assuring the quality when administrative and other data sources are used to produce official statistics. The seminar will present insights on how the use of such data sources poses challenges and how quality aspects of the source data and the source itself impact the final statistical output.

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Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW 46th Session Fourth Cycle April – May 2024 (Cambodia)

Main Submitting Organisation: Nationality for All (NFA) and Co-Submitting Organisations: Women Peace Makers Cambodia, Gender and Development for Cambodia and Khmer Community Development (KCD) submit this joint submission to the Fourth Cycle of Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on the right to nationality and human rights challenges pertaining to statelessness in Cambodia. The submission was supported by the PACE Cambodia Human Rights & Justice Project at Macquarie University in October 2023.

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Journey Towards ICD-11 in the Pacific Webinar Series (Webinar #3)

The PACIFIC CIVIL REGISTRARS NETWORK (PCRN) will be organizing the third webinar in the Webinar series (Journey Towards ICD-11 in the Pacific) on ICD applications, introduction to WHO-FIC and in-depth ICD-11 transition discussion.

When: 15 November 2023

To register: Click here.