IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
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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Originally postponed because of the global pandemic, the Second Ministerial Conference on CRVS now has new dates for the 16th to 19th November, 2021. The current situation hindered preparations for the event in 2020, but we are back on track 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.
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ESCAP is collecting country midterm questionnaires to measure regional progress through the midpoint of the CRVS Decade (2015-2024). Responses will inform and guide preparations for the Second Ministerial Conference in November 2021.
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The CRVS community in Asia and the Pacific is now actively preparing for the celebration of the midpoint of the CRVS Decade (2015-2024), planned for 16 to 19 November 2021. In this effect, many of our partners and member countries are leading actions and publications to establish where the region stands and to fill the remaining gaps. To learn more about CRVS in Asia and the Pacific and keep updated on preparations for the Ministerial Conference, please subscribe to our newsletter, which offers a monthly panorama of CRVS actions throughout the region Previous editions can be found here. |
Plan International, the creators of OpenCRVS, the digital civil registration system designed for low resource settings, will host and participate in a series of webinars for governments, donors, development partners and system integrators.
Data for Health's Data for COVID-19 Webinar Session this week was on Maintaining Civil Registration during COVID-19. (link to the session recording and English language version of the slides).
The Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems will launch a new online "Directory of Experts" in June 2020. Key functionalities will include searchable and filterable profiles of the Directory members, direct communication between users and members, as well as the ability for members to manage/update their profiles. Organisations working in the field of CRVS can also create accounts, which will allow them to circulate announcements, job postings, information, news to relevant members.
This list contains the names and organizational information for country-nominated CRVS national focal points as of November 2020.
As referenced in our April edition of CRVS Insight, the UN Statistics Division developed a short survey for National CRVS focal points to assess the impact of the global pandemic on the functioning of civil registration worldwide, as well as provide information regarding national solutions. In Asia and the Pacific, the questionnaire was distributed by ESCAP to National CRVS Focal Points.
With the explicit goal of helping countries accurately identify deaths from the novel coronavirus in a uniform manner, the WHO recently published the International Guidelines for Certification and Classification (Coding) of COVID-19 as Cause of Death. The document was released on 16 April.
Last week, as part of its ongoing webinars entitled the "Data for COVID-19 Webinar Series", the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health (D4H) Initiative hosted its first webinar on Rapid Mortality Surveillance for Epidemic Awareness.
Today (Wednesday, 29 April), D4H will continue the series with new lectures on Certification and Coding of COVID-19 + Iris Recommendations for COVID-19. The second webinar will begin at 8:00 AM EST / 12:00 GMT / 13:00 WAT / 14:00 CAT / 20:00 HKT.
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