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Birth Registration is the Basis for Advancing Gender Equality and Children’s Rights
[International Development Research Centre]A thought piece on how birth registration — the official recording of a child’s birth by a government agency — is one of the most important events in a child’s life. It is key to accessing a range of -
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Identity Documents, Welfare Enhancement, and Group Empowerment in the Global South
[The Journal of Development Studies]Having a birth certificate is a stepping stone to acquiring an array of rights and benefits, including other documents necessary to navigate in and outside of one’s home country. Despite a birth -
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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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A snapshot of Civil Registration in Sub-Saharan Africa
[United Nations Children's Fund]A brief overview of the situation of civil registration in Sub-Saharan Africa, outlining the challenges to reach universal birth registration. -
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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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World Health Statistics 2018: Monitoring Health for the SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals
[World Health Organization]The World Health Statistics series is the annual snapshot of the state of the world's health. This 2018 edition contains the latest available data for 36 health-related Sustainable Development Goal -
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Framework and strategy for integrated monitoring and evaluation of child health programmes for responsive programming, accountability, and impact
[The BMJ]The article discusses the challenges created by the fragmentation of the current monitoring and evaluation systems and suggest solutions. The authors used data mainly from the Integrated Management of -
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Improving public health and health systems through evidence informed policy in the Americas
[The BMJ]This article identifies challenges and limitations that hinder efforts to link research to policy action at the country level. These challenges can be grouped into three main areas: the sociopolitical -
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Digitalising Nepal’s health sector. A country’s journey towards an interoperable digital health ecosystem
[Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)]This case study provides analysis of key learning for the introduction of digital tools toward an interoperable health ecosystem. -
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How can we accelerate progress on civil registration and vital statistics?
[World Health Organization]Announcing that Bulletin of the World Health Organization will publish a series of papers drawing attention to the contribution the health sector can make to strengthening civil registration and vital -
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South Africa’s vital statistics are currently not suitable for monitoring progress towards injury and violence Sustainable Development Goals
[South African Medical Journal]This article discusses misclassification of causes of death. -
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Guidelines and Template for Developing a Vital Statistics Report
[Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)]This document is a guidance tool for producing vital statistics reports from civil registration systems. It is intended especially for countries that have little or no prior experience with preparing -
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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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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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The Irish PSC: Enforced digital identities for social protection services and beyond
[The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights]The report discusses the privacy and risk implications for Ireland’s public services card (PSC) from a human rights perspective. The report highlights the potential risks to privacy and civil -
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ICAO TRIP Guide on evidence of identity
[International Civil Aviation Organization]These guidelines addresses the complexities associated with establishing (with an emphasis on birth registration) and verifying an identity to a high degree of confidence by mapping and analyzing the -
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Civil registration and vital statistics in health systems
[World Health Organization]The bulletin highlights the need for multi sector coordination and interoperability between civil registration and vital statistics. -
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Vital registration and under-reporting of maternal mortality in Jamaica
[International Journal of Gynaecological Obstetrics]This peer reviewed article seeks to identify why vital registration under-reports maternal deaths in Jamaica.
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.