Newsletter February 2024
In 2023, Ministry of Women, Youth, Children and Family Affairs of the Solomon Islands (MWYCFA), in partnership with UNICEF, launched its revised Solomon Islands National Children’s Policy 2023-2028. The policy ensures that the rights of children are at the centre of development. To safeguard children from harm and exploitation, one of the strategies is to provide legal identity for all, including enhancing birth registration.
ESCAP recently launched the Asia-Pacific SDG Baseline Report during a presentation of regional…
Every child has the right to a birth certificate. Without one, a child cannot progress through…
The Global Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Group and the World Bank…
Effective CRVS systems play an important role in assisting countries to adequately plan for and…
Plan International will start work to build OpenCRVS, an open-source, standards based, software…
To make state services more accessible for citizens, 39 unified public service providing offices…
Road traffic accidents and injuries are an important cause of premature deaths in the Pacific…
In order to facilitate country-level access to technical expertise and assistance for strengthening…
During 14-16 March, staff from the ESCAP Statistics Division met with key stakeholders in Viet…
The Pacific Civil Registrars Network (PCRN) has been working to facilitate cross-border…