CRVS
KNOWLEDGE GATEWAY
Improving global health systems with more reliable birth, death and cause of death data.
Why improve CRVS?
Helping you create change
It’s time to start counting everyone.
This Gateway supports countries to plan and implement activities designed to strengthen their CRVS system. The resources you need are now at your fingertips.
What's new?
Read our latest edition of More than Numbers!
We wrap up our collective achievements over the past four years of the initiative, share accounts of verbal autopsy work in the field, in-depth interviews with our colleagues in Brazil, Colombia and Myanmar and talk to our Fellows about what they are excited to learn.
CRVS strengthening in Sri Lanka
Although largely manual, the Sri Lankan registration system manages to register most births and deaths. However it is slow in compiling data from all the registration points, coding cause of death data, and releasing vital statistics. Sri Lankan CRVS experts weigh in on how the country is improving their system as part of the Data for Health Initiative.
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Learning Centre
Discover the best available knowledge, tools, guidelines and standards to improve CRVS
Library
Read through our collection of guidelines, CRVS developments, country experiences, and journal articles.
Data for Health Initiative partners
