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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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Asia-Pacific Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Research Forum

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

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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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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

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Evaluation of the implementation of the Iris automated coding system in the Philippines

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 6.3 of session 6.

Presenting speaker:

U S H Gamage, CDC Foundation

Co-authors:

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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:

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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.

Link to inception workshop

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Integration of data from medical certification of cause of death and verbal autopsy

This guidance document describes the five-step process for integrating data from medical certification of cause of death (MCCOD) for hospital deaths, and verbal autopsy (VA) data for community deaths to produce cause of death statistics for a population.

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Abstracts, PPT, Paper, Speaker bio: Asia-Pacific CRVS Research Forum, 3-4 April 2023

To keep all materials relating to the Asia-Pacific CRVS Research Forum (3 – 4 April 2023)

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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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Programme: Research Forum (Day 2)

4 April 2023

Session 4: Addressing systemic issues to strengthen CRVS systems
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Assessment, Analysis, and Redesign of Birth and Death Registration Business Processes: Niue (2021) - CRVS Business Process Improvement (BPI) Brief

A multi-sectoral team of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) stakeholders in Niue (from the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Social Services and Niue Statistics Office) were engaged to examine current birth and death registration processes, using Stage 1 of the CRVS Systems Improvement Framework as the methodological guide, to identify gaps and determine areas for improvement.

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Programme: Research Forum (Day 1)

3 April 2023

Session 1: Opening and welcome
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