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international organizations for managing interventions and monitoring achievements in civil registration and vital statistics systems in Africa from 2010 to 2015. The African ministers responsible for civil registration met in Cape Town on 3–5 September 2012 and recommended that all African states should conduct comprehensive assessments of their CRVS systems and develop national plans to guide national improvement processes. This is consistent with Recommendation One of the COIA. Goal The medium-term plan is aimed at supporting African governments in building sustainable and accountable institutions and measure and monitor their respective development efforts. Objectives and targets The overall objective of the medium-term plan is two-fold: 1. improve the capacity of national government administrations in managing the recording and service provision of vital events 2. capacitate national vital statistics compiling offices in the production and dissemination of flow of demographic and health statistics for subnational/local, national, regional and international consumption. The specific objectives and targets of the plan are to: 1: improve coverage of civil registration in Member States 2: improve completeness of birth and death registration in Member States 3: improve completeness of marriage and divorce registration in Member States 4: improve completeness of birth and death vital statistics in Member States 5: improve completeness of marriage and divorce vital statistics in Member States 6: improve timeliness, quality and use of vital statistics in Member States 7: improve accessibility and use of civil registration records in promoting good governance 8: establish integrated population registers/databases. Regional partners The APAI-CRVS programme is steered by UNECA as the secretariat, with the support of a CRVS core group composed of the AfDB, AUC, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Health Metrics Network (HMN) and the secretariat of the African Symposium on Statistical Development (ASSD), representing African countries. HMN Africa work plan 2012–13 The HMN contribution to the Africa network work plan is summarized below. 1. Provide leadership on a common agenda for CRVS strengthening and mobilize partners, regional organizations, donors and stakeholders working with and supporting CRVS strengthening to build a network of partners to strengthen country CRVS 1. Memorandums of understanding negotiated with UNECA and ASSD to collaborate on APAI- CRVS. 2. Participation in the APAI-CRVS core group. 4
3. Participation in East African Inter Parliamentary Union Retreat on Improving Information to Secure Women’s and Children’s Health and Health Related MDGs, Arusha, 26–27 May 2012 (attachment 1). 4. Participation in Africa Ministers Meeting, Durban, September 2012 (attachment 2). 5. Mobilization and funding of health sector representatives to the Africa Ministers Meeting. 6. Hosting of a technical meeting between UNECA and HMN in Geneva on support for the APAI-CRVS programme on 8 and 9 October 2012 to discuss follow-up on recommendations of the Ministers Meeting for all countries to undertake comprehensive CRVS assessments and plans. 7. “Improving cause of death and AIDS mortality surveillance in Africa”, 15–16 November 2012, Cape Town, South Africa. The meeting is organized by WHO in collaboration with the South Africa Medical Research Centre, the ALPHA Network, INDEPTH Network and Health Metrics Network. 8. Support in the organization and technical contribution to the ASSD Meeting on Death and Cause of Death, 27–29 November 2012, Côte d’Ivoire. 9. HMN Global Partners Forum, March 2013, followed by Africa resource mobilization meeting. 10. Draft information sheet linking COIA country workshops with APAI-CRVS prepared (attachment 3). 2. Technically support country CRVS progress, develop analytical capacity to assess data quality and interpret CRVS for policy, advocacy and resource mobilization 1. Support for comprehensive CRVS assessments in Egypt and Burkina Faso. 2. Africa data repository on CRVS commenced in collaboration with UNECA. 3. Provide capacity development for countries to improve their CRVS and the tools to guide them including: dissemination of tools in CRVS assessment, planning and strengthening and tracking of their CRVS systems; dissemination of evidence, lessons learned and innovations; and development of regional and country capacity to support and strengthen CRVS 1. Support to the young statisticians programme to build CRVS capacity. 2. Translation of CRVS assessment tools into French and Arabic. 3. Draft modules developed on marriages and divorces. 4. Module on CRVS ICT assessment under development in collaboration with WHO KMS. 5. CRVS country facilitators training completed in Pretoria (10 countries); another is planned in March 2013. 6. Sponsorship for CRVS short course, University of Queensland, Australia (10 participants from Africa). 4. Foster and accelerate innovation in CRVS 1.Systematic review of eCRVS and mCRVS innovations. HMN ASIA–PACIFIC NETWORK (INCLUDING CENTRAL ASIA) HMN support to Asia–Pacific aligns with and supports the Regional Strategic Plan for the Improvement of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Asia and the Pacific (attachment 3). This allows HMN to leverage the work of the MOVE-IT initiative, support the acceleration of Recommendation One of the UN Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health and use tools that have been developed immediately in country. 5
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