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Unregistered marriages – time to register calls for law reform?
[International Family Law Group]This article discusses religious marriages and the legal implications of registration practices. -
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Socioeconomic determinants of birth registration in Ghana
[BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015]This paper examines the chances of a child born in Ghana between 2001 and 2006 obtaining legal status of identity. -
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Colombia: A strategy to improve the registration and certification of vital events in rural and ethnic communities
[Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative]The report provides an overview of experiences from Colombia on working with communities to improve birth and eath registration. -
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Estimating the completeness of death registration: An empirical method
[PLOS one]This paper presents a novel empirical method to estimate completeness of death registration at the national and subnational levels. -
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History of the birth certificate: from inception to the future of electronic data
[Journal of Perinatology 32 (407-411)]A look at the evolution of birth certificates in the USA. As birth registration has moved from paper to electronic, the birth certificate's potential utility has broadened, yet issues with updating -
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Civil registration systems and vital statistics: Successes and missed opportunities
[The Lancet]This paper is a comprehensive and practical framework for assessment of the quality of vital statistics. With use of routine reports to the UN and cause-of-death data reported to WHO, we review the -
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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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Technological and Social Innovation in Mechanisms for timely Declaration of Births and Deaths of Populations in Nawa Region (Cote d’Ivore)
[European Scientific Journal]This paper focuses on new mechanisms for the timely registration of births and deaths in Côte d'Ivoire. Through the practical case of the Nawa people's region in the southwest of the country, this -
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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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Birth registration and access to health care: an assessment of Ghana’s campaign success
[Bulletin of the World Health Organization]Incorporation of birth registration into community health care, health campaigns and mobile registration activities can reduce the indirect costs of birth registration, especially in poorer -
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Better Data for a Better World
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]This animated video explains why CRVS systems are important for ensuring legal identity for all and achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Recording vital life events such as birth, marriage -
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Boundless Potential
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]This animated video explains why well-functioning civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems are important for achieving gender equality. Recording vital life events such as birth -
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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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Obstacles to birth registration in Niger: estimates from a recent household survey
[Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition]Despite progress made towards increasing birth registration rates over the last dozen years, almost one in two children may still not get registered at birth in Niger according to a recent nationally -
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Status and associated factors of birth registration in selected districts of Tigray region, Ethiopia
[BMC International Health and Human Rights]As continuous, effective and comprehensive birth registration system is being established in Ethiopia, this paper examines the status of child’s birth registration and its associated factors in -
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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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Building Resilient CRVS Systems: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic and Other Emergencies
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]This paper examines the role of CRVS systems before, during, and after an emergency. It uses examples from the current COVID-19 crisis and previous emergencies, combined with lessons learned from CRVS -
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Where There Is No CRVS: Counting and Registering Deaths in Conflict, Emergencies, and Fragile Settings
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]This paper examines the crucial role of CRVS systems during crises associated with conflict, migration, disasters, and health emergencies. It focuses in particular on counting and registering deaths -
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Strategies for Dealing with the Challenges of COVID-19 to Ecuador’s Civil Registration System
[Centre d'Excellence sur les systèmes ESEC]This paper presents the emerging response of Ecuador’s CRVS system to the pandemic. It highlights the main strategies that were put in place to guarantee that operations would function so people could -
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The Role of CRVS in Estimating COVID-19-related Excess Deaths in South Korea
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]To inform the response to the pandemic, this paper analyses COVID-19 excess deaths in South Korea. It suggests that calculating excess deaths can be useful for estimating the mortality level by -
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Documenting Life and Death: Women’s Experiences During Conflict in Syria and Iraq
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]This paper focuses on the experiences of women in two countries ravaged by protracted conflict in recent times: Iraq and Syria. It examines the pressures they face as they try to register life events
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.