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Knowledge Briefs on Gender and CRVS
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]The Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems launched a knowledge brief series that aims to uncover gender bias and barriers, share case studies and emerging findings, and recommend priority areas and -
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Compendium of Good Practices in Linking Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) and Identity Management Systems
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]Legal identity is the basis for realizing many basic rights and opportunities. Yet 1 billion people worldwide cannot prove their legal identity. This leaves them more vulnerable to poverty -
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The Nexus Between Civil Registration and Social Protection Systems: Five Country Practices
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]This compendium highlights the efforts over time of five countries, Argentina, Chile, Namibia, South Korea and Tunisia, to improve public sector service delivery based on universal civil registration -
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Indicator Metadata Registry: WHO Mortality Database
[World Health Organization]This web page provide access to the WHO mortality database.
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Coverage of Birth and Death Registration
[United Nations Statistics Division]This web page provides the results of the UNSD's global monitoring of civil registration and vital statistics.
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Analysing Mortality Levels and Causes-of-death (ANACoD)
[World Health Organization]This web page has a downloadable tool for users to follow a step-by-step approach to quickly conduct a comprehensive analysis of data on mortality levels and causes of death.
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Improving Mortality Statistics in Africa: Technical Strategy 2015–2020
[United Nations Economic Commission for Africa]This web page gives access to information on the technical strategy for improving mortality statistics in Africa.
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Verbal Autopsy Standards: Ascertaining and Attributing Causes of Death
[World Health Organization]This web page provides access to the full verbal autopsy instrument and manual.
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The Web's Free 2017/18 ICD-10-CM/PCS Medical Coding Reference
[World Health Organization]ICD10Data.com is a free reference website designed for the fast lookup of all current American ICD-10-CM (diagnosis) and ICD-10-PCS (procedure) medical billing codes. -
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ICD-10 Interactive Self-Learning Tool
[World Health Organization]This web page offers access to the WHO Electronic ICD-10-training tool, which is designed for self-learning and classroom use.
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Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Knowledge Base
[United Nations Statistics Division]This web page offers access to a number of articles on civil registration and vital statistics, as well as articles that discuss country-specific CRVS issues.
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Records Management
[Wikipedia]This website provides an overview of the different aspects of records management.
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Records Managers
[National Archives, USA]This website provides an overview and a training tool for individuals who have records management responsibilities. -
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Records Management
[Smithsonian Institution Archives]This website provides a comprehensive overview of records management and how records are preserved and curated.
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Civil registration and vital statistics legal and regulatory review tools and methodology
[Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative]This is a tool kit that can guide the analysis of existing laws pertaining to CR and VS. -
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A framework for evaluating national CRVS systems at baseline
[Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative]This publication sets out the baseline evaluation framework as applied by the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health (D4H) Initiative. The frameworkprovides a tool that can deliver a concise and up -
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Asia-Pacific Population Journal, Volume 29, No. 1
[United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific]This journal contains four articles relating to the need to improve civil registration and vital statistics in the Asia-Pacific region. -
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Social Identities, Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture
[Taylor & Francis Online]This journal seeks to provide an interdisciplinary and international platform for theorizing issues at the interface of social identities.
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Journal of Cybersecurity
[Oxford Academic]This journal publishes accessible articles describing original research in the inherently interdisciplinary world of computer, systems, and information security.
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.