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The federal government of Nigeria, is expected to launch an electronic Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System (e-CRVS) and Geospatial Data Repository on Wednesday, Nov. 8.
Making the announcement at a pre-launch briefing on Monday, Nov. 6, the Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), Nasir Kwarra said the portal will hasten the improved civil registration and vital statistics systems in Nigeria “over 10 years, from 2023 to 2030 in a bid to achieve Sustainable Development Goal.”
Kwarra said the launch by President Bola Tinubu, marks the “commitment of the current government and leadership to strengthen civil registration data capturing, collation, processing, dissemination and timely access to statistics on vital events in the country.”
“As part of Nigeria’s way of complying with the resolutions of the African Ministers and scaling up the automated process in Nigeria, the National Population Commission in collaboration with UNICEF developed the e-CRVS Operational Readiness Assessment Report showing the potential of digital technologies in providing transformative outcomes in CRVS and integrating data from multiple systems to securely store data at scale, in a cost-effective way in Nigeria.”
Kwarra said “the report provided a holistic approach to the future state vision for digitized CRVS, the rollout of a decentralized digital birth registration system as part of CRVS, and identifies areas to strengthen the automation of the system. Recommendations that will significantly increase the likelihood of reaching a universal digitalized birth registration system in Nigeria were in place.”
The report ushered in the bold step taken by the Commission for a transformative innovation of the e-CRVS (Vital Reg) system by developing a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement between the Commission and Barnksforte Technologies Limited – a reputable, and innovative local ICT solution provider with a track record of success in ICT solution provision with government agencies.”
Kwarra added that “the PPP arrangement is to promote the Vital Reg System as a completely electronic system that digitalizes all civil registrations such as birth registration, stillbirth registration, birth attestation, adoption, marriage notification, divorce notification, migration and death.”
“The system provides a digital certificate in all cases, an accessible verification platform to registered organizations, and has a central management system (dashboard) that depicts and analyses collated civil registrations into vital statistics for proper decision-making”, he explained.
The chairman pointed out that the process marks a complete departure from the traditional paper-based recording system in the country. “The electronic CRVS promises to revolutionize how vital events are recorded, tracked, and analyzed in the country”, he reiterated.
The repository database according to the chairman will be launched by the president for both public and private sectors in Nigeria. The CRVS National Coordination Committee will also be inaugurated by Mr. President.
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