1. Session 2. revision of Handbooks, manuals and guidelines
Brisbane Accord Group
Session 2. revision of Handbooks, manuals and guidelines
Civil Registration Process: Place, Time, Cost, Late Registration
UNITED NATIONS STATISTICS DIVISION
Technical Seminar on Legal Framework for Civil Registration, Vital Statistics and Identity Management Systems
Manila, Philippines, July 2017
with

2. Background The current versions issued in 1998 Still relevant, but:
New management practices
New principles and recommendations
Contemporary technology
Integration with ID management systems, population registers
Evaluation guidance needed

3. Guiding framework
Revised set of Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Revision 3 adopted by the United Nations Statistical Commission in 2014
National Quality Assurance Framework, adopted by the United Nations Statistical Commission in 2012

4. Handbooks, Manuals and Guidelines
Handbook on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems:
Developing Information, Education and Communication (1998)
Computerization (1998)
Management, Operation and Maintenance (1998)
Policies and Protocols for the Release and Archiving of Individual Records (1998)
Preparation of a Legal Framework (1998)
Handbook on Training in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems (2002)
Integrated in new version
New version: Guidelines
New version:
e-learning

5. Revision process
Process for revising the Handbook on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems: Management, Operation and Maintenance
A first draft was prepared by UNSD
This text was presented at the UN Expert Group Meeting on Management and Evaluation of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems, held in New York from 20 to 24 February 2017.
Based on the proceedings of this meeting, the second draft of the revision was prepared by UNSD and circulated to the members of the Expert Group and the Global CRVS Group for further comments and suggestions …
Final draft will be submitted to the Statistical Commission at its forty-ninth session (March 2018).
All the papers and presentations from the EGM are available at management-and-evaluation-of-crvs-systems/.

6. Handbook on Management, Operation and Maintenance
Structure of new version (Revision 1)
Institutional arrangements for civil registration and the interface with the vital statistics system
Civil registration operational functions and activities
Maintenance of civil registration and vital statistics components
Methods for assessing completeness and coverage of civil registration
Integrating civil registration, vital statistics and identity management
Application and utilization of civil registration and vital statistics information
Digitizing civil registration and vital statistics

7. Chapter I – Institutional arrangements for civil registration and the interface with the vital statistics system
Introduction
Centralised administration
Decentralised administration
Legal framework
Interaction with population registers
Interaction with ID management
Newly introduced sections

8. Chapter II – Civil registration operational functions and activities
Introduction
Functional components
Civil registration system activities
Restructured chapter

9. Chapter III – Maintenance of civil registration and vital statistics components
Introduction
Operational requirements
Restructured chapter

10. Chapter IV – Methods for assessing completeness and coverage of civil registration
Introduction
Considerations on quality of the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System
Quality Framework of the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System
Processes and procedures for quality evaluation
Newly introduced chapter

11. Chapter V – Integrating civil registration, vital statistics and identity management
Civil registration and vital statistics – separate agencies
Civil registration, vital statistics and population registers
Civil registration, vital statistics and identity management
Newly introduced chapter

12. Chapter VI – Application and utilization of civil registration and vital statistics information
Introduction
Application of Civil registration information
Applications of Vital statistics
Refreshed chapter

13. Chapter VII - Digitizing civil registration and vital statistics
Introduction
General overview
Developing blueprints
Key considerations
Newly introduced chapter

14. Guidelines on the Legislative Framework
For Civil Registration, Vital Statistics and Identity Management
Proposed structure
Introduction
Theory of civil registration
Civil registration and human rights
Civil registration law
To be discussed in Session 6