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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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Marriage & Divorce Registration
[United Nations Economic Commission for Africa]This resource explains the value of registration of marriage and divorce for the issuance of legal documents used to establish and protect civil rights, and to assess social and demographic progress.
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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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Birth Registration Tracking
[United Nations Children's Fund]This web page provides the current status and progress of birth registration globally.
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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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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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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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Improving birth registration in Tanzania: The initiative that registered 220,000 children in four weeks
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]Tanzania’s Registration, Insolvency and Trusteeship Agency (RITA) launched an initiative in partnership with UNICEF and the telecommunications company Tigo to lower some of the barriers to birth
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.