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Africa’s Progress Towards SDG target 16.9: Legal identity for all including birth registration by 2030
At the adoption of the Sustainable Development agenda, in 2015, world leaders placed the attainment of a legal identity as an international…
Building Inclusive National Identity Systems - Interlinking digital identity and legal identity
On Tuesday, 20th February 2024, The African Centre for Statistics (ACS) at UNECA convened its 12th StatsTalk-Africa monthly webinar series that…
2024 CRVS Applied Research Training (CART)
The CRVS applied research training (CART) initiative focuses on enhancing CRVS systems through supporting applied research on strategies,…
Launch of CRVS National Strategic Plan 2024-2029 for Somalia
Launch of CRVS National Strategic Plan 2024-2029 for Somalia At the Second Annual Meeting of the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Steering…
Africa CRVS Pulse: Tracking Progress and Development in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics
Africa CRVS Pulse: Tracking Progress and Development in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics
Sixth African CRVS Day
The potential to increase coverage, improve quality and timeliness of data through digitalization of civil registration systems The CRVS community…
Eighth Statistical Commission for Africa to address Urgent Need for High-quality Data Supply
Eighth Statistical Commission for Africa to address Urgent Need for High-quality Data Supply
Addis Ababa, 21 October 2022, (ECA) – The Economic Commission for Africa's (ECA) Macroeconomics and Governance Division (MGD) will host a hybrid…
Good data helps African countries to make better development policy decisions – ECA’s Chinganya
Addis Ababa, 21 October 2022 (ECA) – The eighth meeting of the Statistical Commission for Africa will be held in Ethiopia from 24-28 October 2022…
COM5
African ministers agree to up their game in efforts to close identity gap on the continent
UNECA
Lusaka, Zambia, October 18, 2019 (ECA) - The Fifth Conference of African Ministers Responsible for Civil Registration ended in Lusaka, Zambia, Friday…
ECA’s Chinganya briefs Zambian VP Wina on COM5
ECA’s Chinganya briefs Zambian VP Wina on COM5
UNECA
Lusaka, Zambia, October 18, 2019 (ECA) – Oliver Chinganya, the Director of Statistics at the Economic Commission for Africa’s (ECA) African Centre…