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?
NEW: Colombia: A strategy to improve the registration and certification of vital events in rural and ethnic communities
This paper details Colombia’s strategy to increase the registration and certification of vital events in rural municipalities and ethnic communities. Key parts of this intervention involve developing a proactive search system to improve capture of vital events through mobile notification, and subsequently applying automated verbal autopsy to determine probable cause of community-based deaths.
New- Summary: Monitoring CRVS data quality and progress
This new resource summarises key points from the Lancet series paper, which discussed results from a global assessment of CRVS systems, and the development of a composite index, the Vital Statistics Performance Index (VSPI) that can monitor data quality and progress over time.
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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.
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