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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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Verbal Autopsy Standards: Ascertaining and Attributing Causes of Death
[World Health Organization]The 2016 version of the WHO verbal autopsy instrument is designed for all age groups, including maternal and perinatal deaths, and also deaths caused by injuries.
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ICD-10 Interactive Self-Learning Tool
[World Health Organization]The WHO electronic modular ICD-training tool is designed for self-learning. It can also be used for classroom training.
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Civil Registration and Vital Statistics as a Tool to Improve Public Management
[Inter-American Development Bank]This discussion paper provides a theoretical discussion of the benefits that can arise through the expansion of civil registration and vital statistics as a way to improve public sector management. -
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Thai Civil Registration and Vital Statistics and Unique Identification Number Systems for Universal Health Coverage: A Case Study
[World Bank Group]The Thai civil registration (CR) system was established two centuries ago. Over the past four decades, the system has changed from a manual, paper-based registration system to a centralized -
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Endline Assessment: Improving Birth Registration Using the Existing Community Structures and Immunization Processes
[World Bank Group]This report summarizes key findings from the endline assessment of a pilot project in Ethiopia. The project was undertaken in Yilmana Densa and Goji Qolela woredas (districts); Hintalo Wajirat and -
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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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Demand-Side Factors Related to the Registration of Births, Marriages, and Deaths: A Literature Review
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]This paper seeks to stimulate an evidence-based dialogue on demand-side barriers to the registration of births, marriages, and deaths. Global evidence is presented to summarize the many challenges to -
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Identification for Development: Strategic Roadmap
[World Bank Group]This document presents the World Bank's original strategic framework for the ID4D initiative.
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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.
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