Draft resolution on civil registration and vital statistics

Abstract

The Conference of Ministers, Recognizing the critical importance of fully functional and universal civil registration systems, and the adoption in 2010 of the Africa Programme on Accelerated Improvement of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems by the first Conference of African Ministers Responsible for Civil Registration , the main objective of which has been to ensure that everyone in Africa is counted, The Conference of Ministers, Cognizant of the principles of the United Nations Legal Identity Agenda of complete civil registration and universal registration of all vital events; the production of regular, comprehensive and accurate vital statistics; and the establishment and maintenance of population registers and identity management apparatuses from birth to death.