Africa, Asia and Eastern Mediterranean 2012 and 2013
Africa, Asia and Eastern Mediterranean 2012 and 2013
Africa, Asia and Eastern Mediterranean 2012 and 2013
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international organizations for managing interventions <strong>and</strong> monitoring achievements in civil<br />
registration <strong>and</strong> vital statistics systems in <strong>Africa</strong> from 2010 to 2015.<br />
The <strong>Africa</strong>n ministers responsible for civil registration met in Cape Town on 3–5 September <strong>2012</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
recommended that all <strong>Africa</strong>n states should conduct comprehensive assessments of their CRVS<br />
systems <strong>and</strong> develop national plans to guide national improvement processes. This is consistent with<br />
Recommendation One of the COIA.<br />
Goal<br />
The medium-term plan is aimed at supporting <strong>Africa</strong>n governments in building sustainable <strong>and</strong><br />
accountable institutions <strong>and</strong> measure <strong>and</strong> monitor their respective development efforts.<br />
Objectives <strong>and</strong> targets<br />
The overall objective of the medium-term plan is two-fold:<br />
1. improve the capacity of national government administrations in managing the recording <strong>and</strong><br />
service provision of vital events<br />
2. capacitate national vital statistics compiling offices in the production <strong>and</strong> dissemination of<br />
flow of demographic <strong>and</strong> health statistics for subnational/local, national, regional <strong>and</strong><br />
international consumption.<br />
The specific objectives <strong>and</strong> targets of the plan are to:<br />
1: improve coverage of civil registration in Member States<br />
2: improve completeness of birth <strong>and</strong> death registration in Member States<br />
3: improve completeness of marriage <strong>and</strong> divorce registration in Member States<br />
4: improve completeness of birth <strong>and</strong> death vital statistics in Member States<br />
5: improve completeness of marriage <strong>and</strong> divorce vital statistics in Member States<br />
6: improve timeliness, quality <strong>and</strong> use of vital statistics in Member States<br />
7: improve accessibility <strong>and</strong> use of civil registration records in promoting good governance<br />
8: establish integrated population registers/databases.<br />
Regional partners<br />
The APAI-CRVS programme is steered by UNECA as the secretariat, with the support of a CRVS core<br />
group composed of the AfDB, AUC, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), United Nations<br />
Population Fund (UNFPA), Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),<br />
the World Health Organization (WHO), the Health Metrics Network (HMN) <strong>and</strong> the secretariat of the<br />
<strong>Africa</strong>n Symposium on Statistical Development (ASSD), representing <strong>Africa</strong>n countries.<br />
HMN <strong>Africa</strong> work plan <strong>2012</strong>–13<br />
The HMN contribution to the <strong>Africa</strong> network work plan is summarized below.<br />
1. Provide leadership on a common agenda for CRVS strengthening <strong>and</strong> mobilize partners, regional<br />
organizations, donors <strong>and</strong> stakeholders working with <strong>and</strong> supporting CRVS strengthening to build a network<br />
of partners to strengthen country CRVS<br />
1. Memor<strong>and</strong>ums of underst<strong>and</strong>ing negotiated with UNECA <strong>and</strong> ASSD to collaborate on APAI-<br />
CRVS.<br />
2. Participation in the APAI-CRVS core group.<br />
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