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The 'Rights' Start to Life
[United Nations Children's Fund]This report explores the situation of children who are denied the right of birth registration, and the connections between birth registration and access to the rights of the child. -
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Count Every Child: The Right to Birth Registration
[Plan International]This report offers in-depth information on Plan International's campaign to reduce under registration of children. It examines the issues and the impact of non-registration, and highlights the -
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Child Protection Issue Brief: Birth Registration
[United Nations Refugee Agency]This brief offers information about UNHCR's global strategy for improving birth registration rates and issuing legal documentation to prove identity. -
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Maternal Autonomy and Birth Registration in India: Who Gets Counted?
[PLOS One]This paper examines the effect of maternal socio-economic status in the household, such as their autonomy, ability, freedom and bargaining power, on child birth registration in India using the -
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Birth Registration and the Right of Everyone to Recognition Everywhere as a Person Before the Law
[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ]The report provide an overview of the global rates of birth registration, a universal human right recognized in a number of international instruments. It considers the consequences and impact of non -
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Barriers to Birth Registration in Indonesia
[The Lancet]Empirical research on birth registration is lacking in many countries, including Indonesia. This study examines the correlates of birth registration in three of Indonesia's most impoverished and under -
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Incentives for Improving Birth Registration Coverage
[World Bank Group]A literature review of supply and demand factors that could affect birth registration coverage rates, particularly in the context of social programs. -
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Socioeconomic determinants of birth registration in Ghana
[BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015]This paper examines the chances of a child born in Ghana between 2001 and 2006 obtaining legal status of identity. -
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Colombia: A strategy to improve the registration and certification of vital events in rural and ethnic communities
[Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative]The report provides an overview of experiences from Colombia on working with communities to improve birth and eath registration. -
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History of the birth certificate: from inception to the future of electronic data
[Journal of Perinatology 32 (407-411)]A look at the evolution of birth certificates in the USA. As birth registration has moved from paper to electronic, the birth certificate's potential utility has broadened, yet issues with updating -
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“No Mother Wants Her Child to Migrate” Vulnerability of Children on the Move in the Horn of Africa
[Innocenti Research Report UNICEF Office of Research]The report provide and insight into how migration and especially children's movement is driven by different motivation, exposes children to different forms of harm, an presents multiple barriers to -
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Governance and Policy Coordination: The Case of Birth Registration in Peru
[Innocenti Research Report UNICEF Office of Research]This report discusses how coordination among entities in the public sector Peru can play an important role for promoting birth registration and in improving public services, especially services for -
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Status of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in South Asia Countries 2018
[United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund]This report provides an overview and analysis of the status of the policies, systems and procedures in place for the registration of birth, death and marriage in South Asia. The report covers the -
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Technological and Social Innovation in Mechanisms for timely Declaration of Births and Deaths of Populations in Nawa Region (Cote d’Ivore)
[European Scientific Journal]This paper focuses on new mechanisms for the timely registration of births and deaths in Côte d'Ivoire. Through the practical case of the Nawa people's region in the southwest of the country, this -
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Incentives for Improving Birth Registration Coverage: A Review of the Literature
[World Bank Group]This paper describes a framework of supply and demand factors that could affect birth registration coverage rates, particularly in the context of social transfers. Within this framework, a review of -
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Achieving Universal to ID:Access Gender-based Legal Barriers Against Women and Good Practice Reforms
[World Bank Group]For women and girls, legal identity is a stepping stone to empowerment, agency, and freedom of movement. This study explores how gender-based legal differences and nationality laws limit women’s -
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Birth registration and access to health care: an assessment of Ghana’s campaign success
[Bulletin of the World Health Organization]Incorporation of birth registration into community health care, health campaigns and mobile registration activities can reduce the indirect costs of birth registration, especially in poorer -
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Legal Identity of All Women and Children in ASEAN: A Regional Synthesis
[Association of SouthEast Asian Nations]Undocumented women and children are often vulnerable to being behind. ASEAN Member States (AMS) are making significant progress in promoting the inclusion of vulnerable groups for the attainment and -
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Our Resource Library provides access to curated resources related to CRVS systems, including research, tools, publications, CRVS eLearning course, our Expert Talks video series, and a glossary of terms and definitions.
A CRVS system is one that connects relevant data from the civil registry and the health information system for the purpose of producing vital statistics. In order to function well, CRVS systems depend on common elements. These are featured under a unique section of our library. Examples include resources that focus on training, assessments and evaluations, identity management, data security and privacy, information and communications technology, and more.