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Technical Brief: Building resilient civil registration and vital statistics systems amid COVID-19: Namibia as a good practice
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]A technical brief that looks at the resilience of Namibia’s National Population Registration System during its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This country brief for Namibia is part of the -
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Technical Brief: Maintaining civil registration amid the COVID-19 crisis: Uganda’s mobile notification system
[Centre d'Excellence sur les systèmes ESEC]A country brief that looks at Uganda’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which included closing civil registration offices and enabling staff to register vital events electronically while working -
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Portraying Excellence in CRVS : Fátima Baronet
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]Fátima Baronet is the Acting Director of the National Directorate of Registries and Notaries within the Ministry of Justice and, Constitutional Affairs and Religions in Mozambique. This two-pager -
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Portraying Excellence in CRVS : Oliver Chinganya
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]Oliver Chinganya is the Director of the Africa Centre for Statistics at the UN Economic Commission for Africa in Ethiopia. This two-pager shares his contributions to CRVS. This is part of a series -
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Portraying Excellence in CRVS: Emmy K Hudson
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]Emmy K. Hudson is the Acting-Administrator General/ Chief Executive Officer at the Registration Insolvency and Trusteeship Agency in Tanzania. This two-pager shares her contributions to CRVS in the -
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Portraying Excellence in CRVS: Noël Luenda
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]Noël Luenda is a Director at the Civil Registration and Population Office Ministry of the Interior in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This two-pager shares his contributions to CRVS in the -
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Portraying excellence in CRVS: Belly Lunanga
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]Belly Lunanga is Director and Civil Registration Focal Point in the Office of Population Identification Ministry of the Interior, Security, Decentralization and Customary Affairs in the Democratic -
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Portraying Excellence in CRVS : Janet Mucheru
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]Janet Mucheru is Registrar-general of the Civil Registration Services and Deputy Director-General of Information System Management National Statistics and Information Authority in Kenya. This two -
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Portraying leadership in CRVS : Josephine Mukesha
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]Josephine Mukesha is the Director General of the National Identification Agency in Rwanda. This two-pager shares her contributions to CRVS in the country. This is part of a series that highlights the -
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Portraying Excellence in CRVS : Tulimeke Munyika
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]Tulimeke Munyika is the Director of the National Population Register, Identification and Production in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety and Security in Namibia. This two-pager shares -
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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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Input to OHCHR Report on Birth Registration and the Right of Everyone to Recognition Everywhere as a Person Before the Law, Contributions Received
[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ]This web page contains inputs from 35 countries to a OHCHR report on birth registration.
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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 ]This report gives an overview of the global rates of birth registration, and analyzes the barriers to access birth registration.
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Dictionary for Civil Registration and Identification
[Inter-American Development Bank]A technical dictionary of terms relating to civil registration and identification. -
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Democratic Governance, Citizenship and Legal Identity
[Inter-American Development Bank]This article argues the importance of legal identity for good governance. -
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Legal Identity for Inclusive Development
[Asian Development Bank]This publication provides compelling arguments for why legal identity is a prerequisite for inclusive development policies and projects. -
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Questions of Legal Identity in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
[London School of Economics]A thought piece on the importance of and practical considerations for operationalizing SDG 16.9 legal identity.
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Gender Discrimination, Racial Discrimination and Women's Human Rights
[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ]This web page calls attention to the negative impacts of discrimination against women and girls in the context of racism and racial discrimination.
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Mother to Child: How Discrimination Prevents Women Registering the Birth of their Child
[Plan International]This brief offers compelling information on discriminatory practices that women in particular encounter when wanting to register a child.
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Women, Business and the Law 2016: Getting to Equal
[World Bank Group]This report offers objective data and evidence for building gender equality and discusses the importance of birth registration and birth certificates in improving access to services and benefits.
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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 ]This report contains an overview of global rates of birth registration and the consequences and impact of non-registration on human rights. It also explores barriers and good practice examples.
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The Significance of Legal Identity in Situations of Poverty and Social Exclusion
[Inter-American Development Bank]This paper discusses the characteristics, numbers, and location of the economically, culturally, and socially vulnerable groups that are excluded from access to legal identity.
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Travelling the Distance: A GPS-based Study of the Access to Birth Registration Services in Latin America and the Caribbean
[Inter-American Development Bank]Using Global Positioning System (GPS) data, this paper quantifies the impact of distance on birth registration in Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, and Peru.
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Birth Registration and Armed Conflict
[United Nations Children's Fund]This report draws attention to the particularly precarious conditions for birth registration in areas of armed conflict.
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Birth Registration: Right from the Start
[United Nations Children's Fund]This book examines the situation of children whose births have not been registered by exploring obstacles to universal registration and identifying actions to combat late or non birth registration.
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.