Regional Stakeholder Meeting on Strengthening Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS), Cairo, Egypt, 7 – 8 May 2013
Meeting objectives
Raise awareness, share good practices and foster increased commitment to strengthening CRVS through strong national and regional partnerships while promoting country ownership;
Define approaches to strengthen Member States’ capacity to strengthen CRVS;
Reach consensus on an outline for a regional action plan to strengthen CRVS based on the findings of the rapid and comprehensive CRVS assessments.
Promote country’s support for development of comprehensive plan for improving CRVS based on the agreed upon regional strategy
Participants
Senior officials and decision makers from national statistical organizations, civil registration offices, ministries of health and other relevant stakeholders, experts from leading academic institutions and international organizations, as well as members from the donor community.
Civil registration and vital statistics workshop, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 30 January–1 February 2013
A workshop on civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) was organized by the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean and held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from 30 January to
- discuss and analyse the rapid assessment results and country reports
- identify gaps, challenges and prospects for contributing knowledge and practical guidance for CRVS improvement based on the rapid assessment analysis
- introduce participants to the tools of CRVS comprehensive assessment and identify countries that are ready for a comprehensive assessment.
Participants were those with responsibilities for the collection and analysis of vital statistics on fertility, mortality, and causes of death, including officials working in government at ministries of health and interior, national statistics offices, civil registration departments or birth and deaths registries.
UNESCWA, UNFPA and WHO Regional Office join hands to strengthen civil registration and vital statistics in the Region
25 December 2014 | Geneva - The WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office in collaboration with UNESCWA and UNFPA organized a training workshop on “Demographic methods for assessing the completeness of death registration” in the WHO Regional Office, Cairo, from 15 to 18 December 2014.
The workshop comes in the framework of promoting and implementing the Regional Strategy for Improvement of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems (CRVS) in the Region. It was attended by regional focal points working in the area of demographic analysis.
Among the objectives of the workshop was the enhancement of statistical capacities of participants in concepts and methodologies of demographic estimation, including the assessment of death registration.
Ms Jane Nicholson, Acting Director of Information, Evidence and Research inaugurated the workshop, followed by opening remarks from UNESCWA and UNFPA representatives.
