South Africa records 1M live birth registrations in 2022 with high rates in populated provinces
South Africa’s national statistics agency (Statistics South Africa, or Stats SA) has indicated that the rate of live birth registration…
birth registration
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Crackdown on illegal birth certificates in China after hospital revelations
China is cracking down on the illegal trade in children’s birth certificates, which according to the country’s top health regulator…
Nigeria launches digital CRVS platform built by private partner
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Nigeria has unveiled a digital Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) platform that is expected…
Nigeria reaches 57% in special birth registration drive targeting 12M children
The National Population Commission of Nigeria (NPC) says its teams have attained 57 percent coverage of a digital birth registration…
OpenCRVS
OpenCRVS is an open-source civil registration system that can be configured for a country in a week.
Co-Develop invests in OpenCRVS for DPI development
DPI development investor Co-Develop announced an investment in OpenCRVS, a standards-based open source software that gives governments the power to…
Cameroon begins campaign to issue 500k birth certificates to undocumented children
The pilot phase of a project is underway to issue 500,000 birth certificates to children who do not yet have…
UNICEF praises easier birth registration for Nigerians through digitization
There are more parents in Nigeria now taking their children for birth registration as the country trials a digital birth…
Calls for stronger data protection as breach incidents rock Bangladesh, Indonesia
Calls have intensified in the last couple of days on the need to put in place a body that will…
New page opens for birth registration in Ghana as instruction manual validated
A guiding document which outlines a number of novelties in Ghana’s birth and death registration system was recently validated by…
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