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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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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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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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.
Read MoreThe 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 Previous editions can be found here. |
This chapter takes stock of all the analyses presented throughout the previous chapters, and highlights how the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, launched after the declaration of the Decade, acknowledges civil registration as a basis for legal identity and requires good quality vital statistics to monitor progress towards the SDGs.
The Regional Action Framework, agreed on in 2014 and which guides activities during the Asian and Pacific Decade, includes a list of implementation steps to support countries on the path to universal registration.
Leveraging their progresses in civil registration completeness, many countries have started analyzing data from civil registration records to produce reliable and timely population and vital statistics. These statistics underpin at least 67 of the SDG indicators, as well as necessary for the disaggregation of all the population-based indicators.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical need to monitor mortality and its causes, making sure everyone is included. As well as being essential for accurate , complete and timely vital statistics, death registration is also an important legal and administrative function, required for protecting inheritance rights and securing pension and survivorship claims.
As the foundation of legal identity and the gateway to access many human rights, birth registration is critical in the fight to leave no one behind. Birth registration is thus integral to achieving the SDGs, reflected as an indicator for target 16.9 on the provision of legal identity for all and target 17.19 on statistical capacity.
An inclusive civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system ensures that everyone counts and is counted. It protects human rights, empowers individuals, and promotes sustainable development through proof of legal identity, age, and social relationships, and inclusion in vital statistics.
(Newsletter: CRVS Insight June 2021)
