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A Passport to Protection: A Guide to Birth Registration Programming
[United Nations Children's Fund]This handbook provides the background, general principles, and programming process for birth registration from notification to certification.
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Toward Universal Birth Registration: A Systemic Approach to the Application of ICT
[Inter-American Development Bank and United Nations Children's Fund]This publication provides analysis and checklists for the legal, administrative, and technological requirements for the use of information and communications technology for birth registration. -
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Birth Registration: The Key to Social Inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean
[Inter-American Development Bank]This publication uses econometric analysis to shed light on the significant gaps between registered and unregistered children, and access to social services such as education and health.
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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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Birth Registration and Children's Rights: A Complex Story
[Plan International ]This study is an investigation of the benefits of birth registration for the individual and for the state based on a study of experiences in four countries: India, Sierra Leone, Kenya, and Vietnam. -
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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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“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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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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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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Namibia Identity Management System Analysis (IMSA) Report
[World Bank Group]This report provides an in-depth analysis of the identity management environment in Namibia, including advances and improvements of the birth registration processes. -
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International Identity Management Conference Proceedings
[Inter-American Development Bank]This report outlines the discussions on all aspects of identity management, including CRVS. It also contains the Seoul Declaration on identity management.
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.