12/16/20151 IMPLEMENTING IMPROVEMENTS IN CIVIL REGISTRATION AND VITAL STATISTICS SYSTEMS _______________ Conference of Africa Ministers Responsible for Civil Registration Addis Ababa, Ethiopia August, 2010

Role of the Health Sector Many births and deaths occur in health facilities Pregnancies – need for early detection and recording Health sector should be legally required to record and report births and deaths Statistics sector should be legally required to provide mortality rates and to demand cause of death data Inter-sector linkages are often weak or absent

Vital Statistics Recent attention to the shortcomings of estimates used in the health sector Opportunity to mobilize health sector donors for CRVS improvements to achieve MDGs Increasing recognition to utilize actuarial and cause of death data for forecasting and financial planning for social services

Cause of Death Mortality patterns inevitably demand explanations International Classification of Diseases (ICD) enables standard coding of diagnoses and cause of death Health worker training for certification of death and cause of death is weak

Cause of Death Even strong CRVS systems have "garbage code" problems Percentage of garbage codes by type of GCs and ICD version, all ages. Source: Naghavi et al, 2010

Cause of Death Garbage Code Distribution Source: Naghavi et al, 2010 Fraction of deaths assigned to GCs in the latest ICD-10 year since 2000

MoVE-IT for the MDGs HMN Priority Strategic Initiative Monitoring of Vital Events - using Information Technology Birth, death & cause of death for MDGs 4/5/6 Every Birth, Death, and Cause of Death Recorded and Certified

MoVE-IT for the MDGs: Partners Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation G8 and H8 Leaders Government of Canada IHME PARIS 21 PHII Rockefeller Foundation The Lancet UN Foundation UNDESA/UNSD UNFPA US Government Women Deliver IN-Depth Network Countdown 2015 GAVI Government of Norway m-Health Alliance PATH R4Development Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria DfID- UK UNAIDS UNDP UNICEF WHO The World Bank PMNCH

Policy: as a Weakest HIS Domain 1 1 Based on HIS Assessment conducted during by 27 Africa Countries that used HMN Assessment Tool

Policy Challenges A functional CRVS systems requires multi-sectoral action and commitment Privacy, security, confidentiality and rights must be balanced against the need to share data to detect emerging risks or epidemics

Network Role Support for CRVS resolution and its implementation Facilitate countries' access to resources: –Common platform for linkage to health standards –Technical support network –Resource mobilization (especially GFATM) –Documenting efficiencies and impacts

Key Points Turning Point for Civil Registration in Africa Unprecedented Global Commitment for CRVS Standards-driven CRVS systems