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.
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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 Previous editions can be found here. |
This policy brief was developed as part of an ESCAP-led project on ‘Using CRVS-related evidence to inform gender-sensitive policies’ or Evidence-to-Action (E2A) and is the outcome of a series of in-country consultations and a national workshop held in Fiji in September 2023 involving national stakeholders and development partners.
This side event, in connection with the main 4th Global Expert Forum event, is jointly organized by ESCAP, UNEP and ECE, to explore the nexus between disaster related statistics and civil registration and vital statistics systems, including the use of civil registration to support the production of disaster-related statistics.
Date: 1 November 2024
Venue: United Nations Conference Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
More information will be added when available.
This report documents the work led by CRVS stakeholders in Fiji to assess, analyze and redesign civil registration business processes, including registration of births, deaths, marriage, divorce, change of name and the production of vital statistics. The key recommendations emerging from this assessment propose strategies to realize a more resilient, user-friendly and universal CRVS system in Fiji.
Our community newsletter puts a spotlight on people who have gone above and beyond in their efforts to support CRVS programmes in Asia and the Pacific, raise awareness of CRVS issues or lead CRVS improvement efforts in their home country or in the region. This month, we would like to dedicate this issue of Insight to Urvashi Kaushik.
The UN Resident Coordinator Office (RCO) in Indonesia organized a courtesy visit and meeting between the UN Resident Coordinator (RC), Ms. Gita Sabharwal, and the BPS (National Statistics Agency) Deputy Chief Statistician of Social Statistics, Dr. Ateng Hartono, SE, M.Si, on August 20th, 2024, at the BPS office. Accompanying the RC were technical staff from WFP, UNEP, UNICEF, UNFPA, Global Pulse Asia Pacific, and UNHCR. The Deputy was joined by the Director of Population and Manpower Statistics, Mr.
The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) is calling for papers for the International Population Conference. The conference takes place every four years and includes plenary sessions, debates, invited panel discussions, training workshops and side meetings before and during the Conference. The papers can be on the subject of one of the 24 conference themes or one of the 72 member-organized session topics.
The challenge the Philippines is facing in terms of civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) include the current law that hampers affordable procedures and timely processes.
Vital Strategies is hosting the next edition of VitalTalks on the importance of digitalized civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems. Digitalized CRVS systems lead to timely and cost-efficiency registration of births and deaths, which in turn, result in better access to benefits for more people and timely data on public health for informed public policies by governments.
Date and time: Thursday, 19 September from 5 - 7:30 p.m.
The United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), together with the Freedom Fund have examined modern slavery risks among individuals lacking documentation. In order to share updates on the report which discusses the research findings, the global evidence review, and the potential policy solutions and approaches, the Report Launch Webinar is organized as follows.
Date: Monday 9th September 2024
