United Nations Statistics Division Draft Handbook on Civil Registration, Vital Statistics and Identity Management: Communication for Development Srdjan Mrkić United Nations Statistics Division

Background Since 1948 the United Nations Statistics Division (United Nations Statistical Office at the time) has been mandated with providing methodological framework and international recommendations for civil registration and vital statistics Mandate based on the still-in-place model that comprehensive, reliable, regular, accurate and small area vital statistics can be derived only from a fully-functioning registration of all vital events occurring in the country Mandate was further extended by adoption of the International Programme for Accelerating the Improvement of Vital Statistics and Civil Registration Systems by United Nations Statistical Commission and Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC) in 1991 and re-iterated in 1995

Principles and Recommendations The third revision – 2014 In the context of defining a system as a set of interacting or independent components forming an integrated whole and for the purposes for which these principles and recommendations are to be applied, the components of a vital statistics system are: (a) legal registration, (b) statistical reporting of, and (c) collection, compilation and dissemination of statistics pertaining to vital events Focus on holistic civil registration and vital statistics system, back to 1953

2014 Principles and Recommendations – Model in a Graph Live births Deaths Fetal deaths Marriages Divorces Annulments Judicial separations Adoptions Legitimation Recognition Health services Certification of cause of death Authorized institutions Courts Civil Registration, including population registers Principles: Compulsory Universal Continuous Confidentiality Vital Statistics Compilation Processing Validation Quality control Dissemination Complementary/ Interim sources Population census Surveys Sample registration areas Additional administrative sources Coronary Police Registries Health records National IDs’ Electoral lists Passports …

United Nations Methodological Framework Principles and Recommendations, Revision 2 (2001) Principles and Recommendations, Revision 3 (2015) Handbook on CRVS: Management, Operation and Maintenance (1998) Handbook on CRVS: Management, Operation and Maintenance, Rev 1 (2018) Handbook on CRVS: Computerization (1998)

United Nations Methodological Framework Fully revised, final draft available at UNSD website, subject to editing and copy preparation Handbook on Developing Information, education and communication(1998) Under revision, expected release date mid-2019 Handbook on Legal Framework (1998) Handbook on Training in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems (2002) CRVS E-learning Course (2017)

In need of updates, primarily based on Focus of Handbook on Communication for Development The current version – Handbook on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics systems: Developing Information, Education and Communication Published in 1998 In need of updates, primarily based on The contemporary model for civil registration, vital statistics and identity management The contemporary approach to communication for development Contemporary technology Evolution of international law and human rights

Crucial support from Centre of Excellence for CRVS, Ottawa Focus of Communication for Development Crucial support from Centre of Excellence for CRVS, Ottawa First draft by consultant Comments by UNSD Draft in front of you Last minute amendments – in front of you

Focus of Communication for Development - Content Introduction Chapter I. Organizational aspects of communication for development for effective civil registration, vital statistics and identity management Chapter II. First steps for an effective communication for development strategy: formative research, behavior analysis and identification of main actors Chapter III. Methods and tools to be used in the communication for development programme Chapter IV. Resources for the communication for development programme Chapter V. Implementation of the communication for development programme Chapter VI. Recommendations to strengthen national cr/vs and id management systems Annexes

EGM – expected outcome General comments on the draft Handbook: are there issues that are missing, yet are critical for the communication for development? Is there unnecessary elaboration of topics that should not be covered? Is the general approach to the Handbook appropriate and adequate? Should there be more discussion on a specific issue? Specific comments. As mentioned above, the meeting will review the draft Handbook para by para. Looking for specific comments on each para, section, or chapter - prepared in writing in advance of the meeting and introduced at the meeting itself; presented orally at the meeting and reflected in the final version of the draft; or as general notes transformed into specific comments based on the discussion at the meeting

EGM – expected outcome National examples. The Handbook aspire to cover as much as possible national successful practices in developing and implementing communication for development of the holistic approach to civil registration, vital statistics and identity management. Examples in that respect from your countries and regional or international settings are invaluable. Thus, please identify parts of the Handbook that are most suitable for inclusion of successful practice in your countries and provide them in the format of the text box, annex, illustration or in any other shape you feel is appropriate and these will be then included in the final version.

EGM follow-up Finalizing the draft – depending on the volume of comments, suggestions and inputs – preferably by end of June 2019 Circulated to EGM members for final review – July 2019 Final draft produced – end of July 2019 Unedited final draft posted at the UN website – end of July 2019 Editing, copy preparation, printing – September-October 2019