Seminar Recording: Gender Inclusive Data Collection in CRVS

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Seminar Recording: Gender Inclusive Data Collection in CRVS

1 hour 21 minutes

This seminar covers critical sex and gender considerations for achieving more equitable CRVS data collection methods. Experts from Centre of Excellence on CRVS and Gender, Open Data Watch, Vital Strategies, and UNFPA are represented, with country examples from Bangladesh.

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Key takeaways

Vital statistics generated from civil registration provide valuable data needed to monitor progress towards gender equality, including SDG targets focused on maternal and infant mortality, child marriages, education, and access to health services.
Barriers to equitable CRVS registration include cost, requirements of a husband’s presence, and failure to recognize customary marriages, burial practices, and inheritance laws.
Women often hold critical household health information. Including women as change agents in CRVS systems and verbal autopsies can greatly improve quality and completeness of data collected.

This seminar first aired live on February 25, 2022.

Moderator: Tawheeda Wahabzada, Open Data Watch
Speakers:

Irina Dincu, Center of Excellence for CRVS Systems, United Nations Population Fund
Petra Nahmias, Chief, Population and Social Statistics Section, United Nations ESCAP
Anushka Mangharam, Technical Advisor, CRVS, Vital Strategies
Romesh Silva, Technical Specialist, Health & Social Inequalities, United Nations Population Fund

To overcome the health disparities facing women and girls and people who are nonbinary, we need to better understand how civil registry and vital statistics (CRVS) data are collected and how to improve such data collection efforts within a country’s unique political and cultural context. This is especially important for advancing CRVS systems in low- and middle-income countries.

While there has been a growing recognition of the importance of strong CRVS systems, there is little evidence around the role of gender equity in strengthening these systems. This seminar covers critical sex and gender considerations for achieving more equitable CRVS data collection methods. Examples from Bangladesh and other countries showcase how gendered data collection in this realm affects communities.

“Get Every One in The Picture” was a Ministerial declaration to ensure CRVS registration in Asia and the Pacific is truly universal and fully inclusive.

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Asia Pacific RegionBangladeshData Collection

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