Articles
- Results from the midterm review of the CRVS Decade at the Seventh Session of the Committee on Statistics
- The importance of CRVS systems for gender equality
- WHO to support seven countries in CRVS systems' strengthening
- New round of facilitated CRVS eLearning course launched by World Bank
- Center of Excellence publishes The Nexus Between Civil Registration and Social Protection Systems
Events
- The Secretariat of the Pacific Community recently launched its webinar series on the utilization of
registers and administrative data in census programmes of Pacific island countries. The program, as
well as the recording of previously held meetings can be found here. The next session will be held on
26th August, focusing on "Understanding the key requirements for the utilisation of registers for census
statistics."
Resources
- A recording of the ESCAP's Stats Café on COVID-19 and Death registration, with presentations from
Australia, Sri Lanka and WHO, can be found here. You can access other webinars of this series by
visiting the Asia-Pacific Stats Café Series website. Each webinar is organized in collaboration with
relevant development partners and countries. - The group of practitioners and academics who contributed to The Palgrave Handbook of Global Health
Data Methods for Policy and Practice recently launched a new website: globalhealthdata.org. The
website is complementary to the book in its endeavor of helping to assist students, practitioners,
policymakers and the general public understanding how public health data is collected and
disseminated. - The World Bank's ID4D Initiative recently published a qualitative research toolkit entitled
"Understanding People's Perspectives on Identification". It provides a comprehensive guide of
qualitative research as a basis for ID systems reforms and evolution. A webinar discussing the toolkit is
also available. - The Singapore Department of Statistics recently released the 36th iteration of its Statistics on Marriage
and Divorces for 2019. The annual publication is presented in two parts: Part One analyses the
marriage trends, and characteristics of grooms and brides, while Part Two highlights the trends in
marital dissolutions as well as characteristics of divorcees.