New technical guidance for rapid mortality surveillance
(Newsletter: CRVS Insight May (2) 2020)
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. |
(Newsletter: CRVS Insight May (2) 2020)
(Newsletter: CRVS Insight May (2) 2020)
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.
(Newsletter: CRVS Insight May (2) 2020)
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).
(Newsletter: CRVS Insight May (2) 2020)
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 20 January 2025.
(Newsletter: CRVS Insight May 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.
(Newsletter: CRVS Insight May 2020)
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.
(Newsletter: CRVS Insight May 2020)
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.