Civil Registration and Vital Statistics: Francophone Africa takes action
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Experts and administrators from twenty Francophone countries have just finalized five days of proceedings on the improvement of civil registration and vital statistics with a promise to commit their respective governments to rapidly implement the Africa Programme on the Accelerated Improvement of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (APAI-CRVS). Addressing the experts and their guests during the opening ceremony of the workshop, Cameroon’s Minister Delegate in the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization, Mr. Jules Doret Ndongo, intimated that the APAI-CRVS programme “constitutes a unique opportunity, as it matches all the countries of the African continent which have agreed to move forward at the same pace”. The proceedings, characterized by discussions of the experiences of different countries, enabled the experts to agree on, among other things, the need to modernize systems of civil status registration and vital statistics in their respective countries through the strengthening of the coordination of all the national actors involved; the computerization of the registration procedures and the issuing of certificates; and the harmonization, at the regional level, of new systems.
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“United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. (2015-11). Civil Registration and Vital Statistics: Francophone Africa takes action. Addis Ababa:. © UN. ECA,. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/36305”Collections
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