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Leveraging partnerships to support Innovative Civil Registration and Vital Statistics

COM 5
19 October, 2018

Lusaka, Zambia, October 17, 2019 (ECA) - High-level participants at the ongoing fifth Conference of African Ministers responsible for Civil Registration (COM5) had the opportunity to focus on leveraging partnerships in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) as they continued to seek ways to bridge the identity gap on the continent.

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide lack proof of legal identity, the majority of them being children who were never registered at birth.

With CRVS systems improvement gaining momentum in Africa, representatives from various donors and development partners, including the African Development Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF.

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