The inaugural meeting of a network for countries in Central Asia and beyond was held on 15-17 April in Ankara, Türkiye, co-organized by ESCAP, UNFPA, SESRIC, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNDP and Vital Strategies. The meeting was convened for civil registrars working in Central Asia and beyond to share progress and challenges in CRVS improvement efforts and identify common challenges, facilitate knowledge exchange and collaboration, and to discuss a formal creation of a Eurasian Civil Registrars Network. The meeting provided a professional forum for civil registrars to discuss priority areas of common concern. The meeting was followed by a one-day meeting on marriage registration organized by UNFPA/Centre of Excellence on CRVS with support by ESCAP.
More News
Plan International Pakistan has launched an innovative, new project to improve birth registration…
ESCAP recently launched the Asia-Pacific SDG Baseline Report during a presentation of regional…
The Ministry of Justice of Viet Nam hosted the launch of the National CRVS Steering Committee…
The World Health Organization estimates that 65 percent of all deaths worldwide –around 35 million…
The World Bank's ID4D program has published the third annual update of the Global Dataset on the…
Every child has the right to a birth certificate. Without one, a child cannot progress through…
The Global Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Group and the World Bank…
Effective CRVS systems play an important role in assisting countries to adequately plan for and…
Plan International will start work to build OpenCRVS, an open-source, standards based, software…
To make state services more accessible for citizens, 39 unified public service providing offices…
