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The Importance of Registering Births, Marriages and Deaths
[Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems]Why register births, marriages, and deaths? Nadya Kassam provides the answers in this interview. -
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Making Civil Registration Accessible to All
[Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems]This interview with Nicholas Oakeshott from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees explains why access to civil registration and vital statistics systems is critical. -
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Integrating Health and Civil Registration Data
[Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems]In this interview with Edward Duffus of Plan International, he explains the value of integrating health system data with the civil registration process and explores tools for improving CRVS. -
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How the Government of Uganda Strengthened its CRVS System
[Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems]Find out how one Ugandan hospital allows new parents to leave with their child’s birth certificate in-hand. Gopalan Balagopal explains why this is an effective way to increase birth registration -
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Better Data for a Better World
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]This animated video explains why CRVS systems are important for ensuring legal identity for all and achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Recording vital life events such as birth, marriage -
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Boundless Potential
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]This animated video explains why well-functioning civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems are important for achieving gender equality. Recording vital life events such as birth -
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What if you didn’t have a birth certificate?
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]CRVS systems give people proof of their legal identity, age, and social relationships and enable access to essential public services including healthcare, education and social protection. -
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Handbook for Registration: Procedures and Standards for Registration, Population Data Management and Documentation
[United Nations Refugee Agency]This handbook describes how to set up registration activities for refugees and asylum-seekers, what data to collect, and how to manage and protect the information gathered.
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Handbook on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems: Policies and Protocols for the Release and Archiving of Individual Records
[United Nations Statistics Division]This manual offers guidelines for designing policies to protect the confidentiality of individual information contained in vital records and suggests alternative methods for storage and protection.
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Handbook on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems: Preparation of a Legal Framework
[United Nations Statistics Division]This handbook provides the legal underpinnings of a civil registration and vital statistics system.
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Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Series M No. 19/Rev.3
[United Nations Statistics Division]This manual provides an extensive examination of the role of population registers in the context of vital statistics and civil registration. -
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Monitoring the Building Blocks of Health Systems: A Handbook of Indicators and their Measurement Strategies
[World Health Organization]This book is structured around the WHO framework that describes health systems in terms of six core components or “building blocks." -
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Handbook on Civil Vital Registration and Statistics Systems Management, Operation and Maintenance
[United Nations Statistics Division]This handbook provides guidance to countries to improve their civil registration and vital statistics systems.
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Vital registration and under-reporting of maternal mortality in Jamaica
[International Journal of Gynaecological Obstetrics]This peer reviewed article seeks to identify why vital registration under-reports maternal deaths in Jamaica. -
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Underreporting of deaths in the maternal deaths surveillance system in one region of Morocco
[Public library of medicine]Peer reviewed articles that assesses the reliability of maternal deaths surveillance system (MDSS) in order to determine the factors that influence its completeness in one region of Morocco. -
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Vital registration and under-reporting of maternal mortality in Jamaica
[ International Journal of Gynaecological Obstetrics]This is a peer reviewed article that seeks to identify why vital registration under-reports maternal deaths in Jamaica. -
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Underreporting of deaths in the maternal deaths surveillance system in one region of Morocco
[Public library of medicine]Peer reviewed articles that assesses the reliability of maternal deaths surveillance system (MDSS) in order to determine the factors that influence its completeness in one region of Morocco. -
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Overview: Harnessing Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Systems in Conflict, Emergencies and Fragile Settings
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]This paper introduces the Compendium of good practices: Harnessing CRVS in conflict, emergencies and fragile settings and provides an overview of each of the subsequent papers. The Compendium contains -
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Civil Registration: Maintaining International Standards in Emergencies
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]The most crucial undertaking in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has been facilitating universal registration of all vital events occurring in a country. This paper finds that for civil registration -
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Applying a “Systems Lens”: CRVS and Fragility in the Digital Age
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]This paper draws on PARIS21’s 20-year history working in low- and middle-income countries to analyze barriers to CRVS development in fragile and conflict affected states, and strategies to overcome -
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Alternative Information Sources on Deaths in Brazil in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]This paper finds that even with significant improvements in the collection and accuracy of death information in Brazil over the last 40 years, it is still necessary to develop research that presents -
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The Burial of Unidentified People in Rio de Janeiro: The Disappearance of People in the State Bureaucracy
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]This paper explores the deaths of unidentified people in Brazil as a public policy problem, presents measures taken so far to address the issue, and provides recommendations to mitigate the problem in -
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COVID-19 and CRVS in New Zealand: The Show Must Go On
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]This paper outlines the Government of New Zealand’s response to the COVID-19 crisis from a civil registration perspective. It examines the initiatives the government took to reduce the effects of the -
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Digitalising Nepal’s health sector. A country’s journey towards an interoperable digital health ecosystem
[Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)]This case study provides analysis of key learning for the introduction of digital tools toward an interoperable health ecosystem.
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.