Subject: CRVS Insight September 2020
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Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2020 10:51:36 +0000

CRVS Insight

September 2020

Thursday, 10th September - 6-7:30 pm (Bangkok time)

Webinar on “The Nexus Between Civil Registration and Social Protection Systems”

The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and the Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems at IDRC are organizing a webinar this Thursday. It is the first in a 2-part webinar series to disseminate the findings of a newly released compendium “The Nexus Between Civil Registration and Social Protection Systems: Five Country Practices”. The compendium, based on experiences in Argentina, Chile, Namibia, Republic of Korea, and Tunisia, examines the links between CRVS and social protection systems.

You can register for participation here.

The second part will take place on 22 September.

Consultancy with UNICEF to support the National Statistics Committee of Kazakhstan in strengthening and improving child statistics data

UNICEF Kazakhstan is looking for an expert to support the national processes to improve child births, deaths, causes-of-deaths data recording and registration, and carry out a rapid assessment of national civil registration and vital statistics systems. To estimate child-related SDG indicators and improve data disaggregation, it is essential to strengthen the national CRVS system. Working in close collaboration with country experts, the consultant will study all aspects of this system to identify practices to improve.

The Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems has launched a new Directory of Experts online platform

The new online platform hosts a diverse listing of individual experts and organizations focused on strengthening CRVS systems. The Directory aims to connect governments, practitioners and experts from across the global CRVS community to develop, strengthen, and scale-up civil registration and vital statistics systems. It also allows organizations to share news announcements and job opportunities in a communal online space. You can browse the directory or apply as an expert or as an organisation.

UPCOMING EVENTS

The upcoming session of the Asia-Pacific Stats Café, on Wednesday, 16 September from 1 to 2 pm (Bangkok time), will focus on data integration. Data integration pulls together data from different traditional sources such as censuses, surveys, and administrative data like civil registration, as well as new sources of data. It can provide more frequent, timely and disaggregated statistics, at lower cost compared to traditional approaches. While this is promising, there are challenges on the way, including access to data, quality, interoperability, privacy and confidentiality, and limited technical capacity. You can register here.

NEW RESOURCES

The Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative at the University of Melbourne has recently published three CRVS kits, namely on Verbal autopsy (VA), Medical certification of cause of death and mortality coding, and Data quality and analysis. As summaries of the most important papers, tools and guidance documents, they are designed as stepped guides for countries looking to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their CRVS systems. Additional resources have recently been published on the CRVS Gateway, such as a “Responding to COVID-19” page which will act as an up-to-date repository for all University of Melbourne Data for Health guides, tools and resources relating to COVID-19.

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