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What are Vital Statistics?

ESA/STAT/AC.219/8 Region-wide Programme to Improve Vital Statistics and Civil Registration Systems prepared by: Margarita F Guerrero, Ph D Regional Adviser on Statistics. What are Vital Statistics?. Data, indicators, statistical summaries derived from recording of— Births Deaths

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What are Vital Statistics?

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  1. ESA/STAT/AC.219/8Region-wide Programme to Improve Vital Statistics and Civil Registration Systemsprepared by:Margarita F Guerrero, Ph DRegional Adviser on Statistics

  2. What are Vital Statistics? Data, indicators, statistical summaries derived from recording of— Births Deaths Causes of death Marriages Divorces

  3. What are Gender Statistics? Data, indicators, statistics ... About women/girls and men/boys Sex-disaggregated About rights of women/girls VAW Reproductive health Maternal mortality Work, both paid and unpaid Informal employment Care work

  4. Gender statistics: for what purpose? State of ... Gender inequality Women’s rights How’s and why’s of gender-based disparities Evidence-based policies towards ... Gender mainstreaming Gender equality Gender justice Women’s liberation

  5. Relating Mortality and Gender Statistics From records of deaths and causes of death … to Mortality rates– by sex and age Mortality rates by causes of death- by sex and age Maternal mortality HIV-AIDs Other diseases Violence (?)

  6. Better Vital Statistics … • To improve the use of statistics for evidence-based decision-making • To develop and disseminate quality statistics for inclusive and sustainable development Recurring themes: NSS and Statistics Development Partners

  7. Civil Registration & Vital Statistics Systems Governance Vital Statistics Human Rights Civil Registration

  8. Some Principles Region-wide Capacity Building

  9. Region-wide approach accounts for … • Diversity in— • Level of development of systems • Strength of coordination among key institutions • Level of awareness of importance, use and connection to rights • Technical capacity • Availability of resources and ranking of priorities

  10. … and looks for COMMON concerns and challenges … and approaches that work and/or can be adapted across diverse situations

  11. An Assumption– Increasingly … 12 Governments and national statistical systems: Point A: Know where they are • Assessing, monitoring and evaluating Point B: Know where they want to be • Strategic planning, statistics development and implementation plans

  12. Point A: Challenges • Increasing awareness and political commitment • Strengthening legal framework, institutional mandates and organization of work • Improving coverage, completeness and quality • Wider and more effective dissemination of data, analyses and use

  13. Capacity Development— 14 • Getting from point A to point B • Who does what and with whom? External Internal

  14. Guiding Principles– Region-wide Approach • Responding to urgent development needs • Supporting country commitment & plan • Building on role of Regional Commission • Take global initiatives and ‘regionalise’ • Intergovernmental forum • Implement in partnership & coordination with … • Differentiating regional from country specific • Relying on integrated approach • Aiming for “stepwise” & “spillover” effect

  15. Strategies– Advocacy • High-level regional forum— intergovernmental • Strengthening legal frameworks • Improving national coordination • Obtaining sustained political commitment • Year/Decade for civil registration • Developing and applying advocacy tools for national-level advocacies • Developing a business case for civil registration and vital statistics improvement

  16. Strategies– Knowledge Standards, guidelines & tools Assessments Applying and adapting existing ones Filling in the gaps Knowledge-sharing Regional networking

  17. Strategies– Technical Assistance Advisory services– programmatic approach Training Developing training curricula and materials with national training institutes In-country training

  18. Strategies– Coordinated Support Ongoing initiatives WHO Health Metrics Network Knowledge hub– University of Queensland UNICEF UNFPA PLAN International Facilitating South-South cooperation

  19. Getting from Point A to Point B: Developing a framework for core gender statistics, including: health and mortality statistics

  20. ‘Engendered’ policies: formulating & monitoring; etc … User Needs Core Set of Gender Statistics facilitates production of determines Capability building initiatives Required capabilities to produce the statistics Region-wide Programme Components delivers informs 21

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