Stat of the week: Birth registration in Tonga
97.7%: Tonga maintains near universal birth registration, as confirmed by results from their latest Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS).
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SPC Elected as Chair of the Global Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Group for 2020-21
The Statistics for Development Division is proud to announce that SPC has been elected unanimously as the Chair of the Global Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Group at a side event of the 2020 UN statistical Commission meeting in New York. SPC was…
Pacific Civil Registrars Network (PCRN) - Disaster Preparation and Response Workshop
The Pacific Civil Registrars Network is meeting in Suva to discuss the role of civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems in planning and responding to natural disasters and other emergencies.
CRVS systems provide important information…
Improving storage and archival of civil registration records and documents - Workshop
The Brisban Accord Group (BAG) in collaboration with the Pacific Civil Registrars Network (PCRN), the National Archives of New Zealand, the Pacific Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (PARBICA), the National archives of Fiji, and the…
Brisbane Accord Group (BAG) Meeting
The Brisbane Accord Group (BAG) is a consortium of development partners formed in 2010, that supports Pacific Island countries in improving civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems. BAG’s work is guided by the Pacific vital statistics…