1. Presenter: Ms. Dawn Britton Head of Operations - General Register Office

2.  Overview  Birth Registration Process  Ongoing Activities  Challenges  Strategies to Improve Birth Registration  Future Work  Analysis  Summary  Questions

3.  Computerising data storage, management, analysis & retrieval  Early registration of vital events-  Capacity building for Registration  Development and use of Standard operating procedures country wide  Reviewed data capture documents to conform with international standards

4.  Under registration in Regions 1, 7, 8 & 9 (our Amerindian Communities)  Late Registration  Inadequate registration centres  Decentralization of General Register Office services  Contemporaneous birth registration.  Public awareness of the process and benefits of birth registration.

5.  Awareness Creation - Public education initiated-use of radio, TV & press, in addition pamphlets and posters highlighted the General Register Office’s public awareness program on birth registration.  Building Partnerships -Ministries of Citizenship and Ministry of Indigenous People combined managerial skills and personnel resulting in two hundred (200) Toshoas and Community Development Officers joining the project  Pilot project was launched at our major Public Hospitals to re-introduce bedside birth registration. The General Register Office is presently monitoring all systems that were put in place during the years to ensure under registration is eliminated

6.  Step up and sustain public education on importance and benefits of birth registration.  Pursue total computerisation of records – linking all regional offices to Central office.  Strengthen collaboration with all stakeholders to achieve universal registration