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Title: Addendum to the P


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Issues to be Addressed in Reforming and Improving
Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems
in Africa
Meeting of Experts for the First Conference of
African Ministers responsible for Civil
Registration 10-12 August 2010 UNCC, Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia
Genene Bizuneh ACS, ECA
2
Content
  • Approaches and Results
  • Areas of Reform and Improvement
  • Filtering Technical, Operational and Policy Issues

2
3
Approaches and Results
  • Improvement supported with reform
  • Rationale, consensus building, coordination and
    harmonization
  • Define results chain
  • Goal
  • Outputs
  • Outcomes
  • (make reference to the medium-term plan)

3
4
Areas of Reform and Improvement
  • Technical
  • Legal
  • Organizational
  • Operational
  • Advocacy and Communication

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5
Technical
  • A. Setting national standards
  • Concepts and definitions
  • Vital events to be recorded
  • Including causes of death
  • Content and design of registration forms
  • Interface with vital statistics
  • Content and design of registration evidences -
    the certificates
  • Registration manuals/guidelines
  • Vital statistics manuals/guidelines

5
6
Technical Contd
  • Registration approach/ method
  • Organizational arrangement
  • Centralized or decentralized or mixed
  • Vital statistics compilation
  • including causes of death classifications
  • Data capturing and processing technology
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Techniques and tools

6
7
Technical Contd
  • B. Setting regional standards
  • Purpose and function of civil registration
  • Registration method and compilation procedure
  • Registration coverage and completeness
  • Vital statistics - timeliness, completeness and
    quality
  • Content and production of vital statistics
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Data harmonization

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8
Legal
  • Content and scope of civil registration laws
  • Addressing legal purposes
  • Addressing administrative purposes
  • Addressing statistical purposes
  • Coverage geographic and population
  • Compulsoriness
  • Budget source
  • Implementation

8
9
Organizational
  • A. Planning and monitoring systems
  • Developing civil registration and vital
    statistics plans
  • Integrating monitoring and evaluation mechanisms
    in the plans
  • B. Organizational structure
  • Civil registration
  • Under federal administration
  • Under centralized administration

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10
Organizational Contd
  • Vital statistics
  • Under federal administration
  • Under centralized administration
  • C. Administrative arrangement
  • Administrative accountability
  • Civil registration under which ministry?
  • Vital statistics under which ministry?
  • Local registration offices
  • Under the public administration or
  • Under sector ministry or department

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11
Organizational Contd
  • D. Institutional integration and resource
  • Integration between civil registration and vital
    statistics
  • at ministerial level
  • at agency level
  • at local registration level
  • Resource requirements and management
  • for civil registration
  • for vital statistics

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12
Organizational Contd
  • E. Capacity building
  • Capacity building
  • Short term
  • Long term
  • Support from development partners
  • Technical
  • Financial and logistics
  • F. Education and communication
  • Content
  • Who does what?

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13
Operational
  • Role of ministries responsible for civil
    registration
  • Role of ministries responsible for statistics
  • Role of civil registration office(s)
  • Role of vital statistics compiling office(s)
  • Role of other ministries or departments in
    support of civil registration or vital statistics
  • Who should be the local registrar?
  • In urban areas
  • In rural areas
  • Role of local registrars

13
14
Operational Contd
  • Who should be the informant? for birth, death,
  • Integrating vital events recording with public
    administration and basic social service
    operations
  • Building the capacity of local administrations in
    processing and utilization of vital statistics
    data at the local level
  • Vital statistics information transfer to the
    center
  • Vital statistics editing, coding and processing
  • Centralized or decentralized
  • Application of data capturing and processing
    technology

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15
Advocacy and Communication
  • Strategy
  • Demand creation
  • civil registration evidences
  • vital statistics information
  • Involvement
  • health institutions and facilities
  • education institutions and schools
  • religious authorities
  • cultural and traditional authorities and groups
  • professional associations and individuals
  • media institutions and personnel

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16
Advocacy Contd
  • Utilization of media facilities
  • Free access and utilization of public media
    facilities
  • Special arrangement in using private media
    facilities

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Filtering Technical, operational and Policy Issues
  • Breakaway sessions in TWO PARALLEL groups

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Thank you!
Conference Website http//www.uneca.org/crmc/
or http//www.uneca.org/cr-ministerial-co
nference/ http//knowledge.uneca.org
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