Demographic and Social Statistics
Meetings
United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in cooperation with the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO-EMRO) is organizing a Workshop on the Operation of Civil Registration, Vital Statistics and Identity Management Systems and the Production of Vital Statistics Reports for the Eastern Mediterranean Region Countries (Group2) . The workshop will take place in Tunis, Tunisia, from 26 to 30 March 2018 and will be conducted in English with Arabic interpretation.
- Tunis, Tunisia
- 26-30 March 2018
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in cooperation with the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO-EMRO) is organizing a Workshop on the Operation of Civil Registration, Vital Statistics and Identity Management Systems and the Production of Vital Statistics Reports for the Eastern Mediterranean Region Countries (Group2) . The workshop will take place in Tunis, Tunisia, from 26 to 30 March 2018 and will be conducted in English with Arabic interpretation. The workshop aims to increase the knowledge and skills of participating statisticians, civil registration officials, identity management officials and health officials in implementing the Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Revision 3 and the revised Handbook on civil registration and vital statistics systems: management, operation and maintenance as well as to give participants hands-on technical support to produce vital statistics reports from civil registration records and improve their capacity to identify obstacles and challenges for achieving complete coverage of their systems. The workshop will also provide a forum for exchange of national experiences in evaluating vital statistics and discussing the capacity of participating countries to deliver quality national vital statistics for international compilation and dissemination. Current practices for setting up a holistic framework that encompasses Civil Registration, Vital Statistics and Identity Management Systems will be reviewed.
Overview
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in cooperation with the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO-EMRO) is organizing a Workshop on the Operation of Civil Registration, Vital Statistics and Identity Management Systems and the Production of Vital Statistics Reports for the Eastern Mediterranean Region Countries (Group2) . The workshop will take place in Tunis, Tunisia, from 26 to 30 March 2018 and will be conducted in English with Arabic interpretation. The workshop aims to increase the knowledge and skills of participating statisticians, civil registration officials, identity management officials and health officials in implementing the Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Revision 3 and the revised Handbook on civil registration and vital statistics systems: management, operation and maintenance as well as to give participants hands-on technical support to produce vital statistics reports from civil registration records and improve their capacity to identify obstacles and challenges for achieving complete coverage of their systems. The workshop will also provide a forum for exchange of national experiences in evaluating vital statistics and discussing the capacity of participating countries to deliver quality national vital statistics for international compilation and dissemination. Current practices for setting up a holistic framework that encompasses Civil Registration, Vital Statistics and Identity Management Systems will be reviewed.
Main documents
Presentations
- Session 2 ‐ Guiding principles of vital statistics system and introduction to the revision process of the relevant Handbooks
- Session 3 ‐ Regional Initiatives on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics
- Session 4 ‐ The CRVS e-learning course (3 core modules)
- Session 5 ‐ Legal framework, including human rights, in the civil registration, vital statistics and ID systems
- Session 6 ‐ The role of health institutions
- Session06-Afghanistan
- Session06-Bahrain
- Session06-Iraq
- Session06-Lebanon
- Session06-Libya
- Session06-Palestine
- Session06-Qatar
- Session06-Syria
- Session06-Tunisia
- Session06-UNSD
- Session06-WHO
- Session 7 ‐ Institutional arrangements and integration of civil registration, vital statistics, population registers and identity management
- Session 8 ‐ Topics and themes to be covered in a vital statistics system
- Session 11 ‐ Maintenance of civil registration and vital statistics components
- Session 12 ‐ Digitising civil registration and vital statistics
- Session 13 ‐ International collection of vital and health statistics
- Session 14 ‐ Challenges faced by countries to fulfil the international collection of vital statistics
- Session 15 ‐ Country team work time ‐ Analysing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to the production of a vital statistics report
- Session 16 ‐ Production of vital statistics
- Session 17 ‐ Evaluation of the quality of civil registration and vital statistics systems
- Session 18 ‐ Vital statistics and indicators on births and deaths
- Session 19 ‐ Presentation of vital statistics
- Session 20 ‐ Country team work time ‐ Preparing presentation on births and deaths tabulations, graphs, indicators and analysis
- Session 21 ‐ Country preliminary vital statistics report and strategies for improving civil registration and vital statistics systems