Programme - 3rd Ministerial Conference

 

MORNING

BREAK

AFTERNOON

Sub-regional and sectoral forums

DAY 1
Monday
23 June 2025

09:00-12:00

Sub-regional forums:

  • Pacific Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Practitioners (concept note | MR-A)
  • A Lifecycle Approach to Legal Identity: South Asia Regional Consultation (concept note | MR-G)
  • Inclusivity in CRVS: Leaving No One Behind (concept note | MR-H)
  • Sub-Regional Forum for North and Central Asia (concept note | CR-4)

12:00-14:00

BREAK

14:00-17:00

Sectoral forums:

  • The potential of population registers and register-based censuses – Experiences from Indonesia, Mongolia, Norway, Türkiye and Uruguay (concept note | MR-G)
  • Enabling the health sector contribution to death registration and fundamental role in improving cause-of death reporting (concept note | MR-H)
  • Inclusive, Resilient, and Digital Civil Registration: A Foundation for Trusted Digital Identity and Digital Public Infrastructure (concept note | MR-A)

Senior officials’ segment

DAY 2
Tuesday 
24 June 2025

09:00-12:00
(CONFERENCE ROOM 2)

1. Opening of the senior official segment

  • Opening addresses
  • Election of officers
  • Adoption of the agenda

[ESCAP/MCCRVS/2025/1/Rev.1*: 中文 | English | Français | Русский]
[ESCAP/MCCRVS/2025/1/Rev.1/Add.1: 中文 | English | Français | Русский]

GROUP PHOTO

2. Achievements and challenges after a decade of getting every one in the picture

  • Country statements

[ESCAP/MCCRVS/2025/2: English]
[ESCAP/MCCRVS/2025/3: English]

12:00-12:45

BREAK

12:45-13:45
Side events

14:00-17:00
(CONFERENCE ROOM 2)

2. Achievements and challenges after a decade of getting every one in the picture (cont.)

  • Country statements (cont.)

[ESCAP/MCCRVS/2025/2: English]
[ESCAP/MCCRVS/2025/3: English]

3. Building resilient and inclusive civil registration and vital statistics systems in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable development

  • Panel on resilience and CRVS

[ESCAP/MCCRVS/2025/4: English]
[ESCAP/MCCRVS/2025/5: English]

All day
DAY 3 Wednesday
25 June 2025

09:00-12:00
(CONFERENCE ROOM 2)

3. Building resilient and inclusive civil registration and vital statistics systems in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (cont.)

  • Panel on Getting everyone in the picture through inclusive CRVS systems
  • Country statements

[ESCAP/MCCRVS/2025/4: English]
[ESCAP/MCCRVS/2025/5: English]

12:00-12:45

BREAK

12:45-13:45
Side events

14:00-17:00
(CONFERENCE ROOM 2)

3. Building resilient and inclusive civil registration and vital statistics systems in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (cont.)

  • Ministerial roundtables on key themes (e.g. Health, CR/legal ID, Statistics)
  • Country statements (cont.)

[ESCAP/MCCRVS/2025/4: English]
[ESCAP/MCCRVS/2025/5: English]

17.30-18.30
Evening reception hosted by World Bank (launch of CRVS eLearning course)

All day

Ministerial segment

DAY 4
Thursday 
26 June 2025

09:00-12:00
(CONFERENCE ROOM 2)

4. Opening of the ministerial segment

  • Opening addresses
  • Election of officers

5. Towards the shared vision of universal and responsive civil registration and vital statistics

  • VIDEO on progress review
  • Country statements

12:00-12:45 
(issuance of report at 12:00)
BREAK

12:45-13:45
Side events

14:00-17:00
(CONFERENCE ROOM 2)

5. Towards the shared vision of universal and responsive civil registration and vital statistics (cont.)

  • Country statements (cont.)
  • Ministerial Panel on inclusive and resilient CRVS system

[ESCAP/MCCRVS/2025/2: English]
[ESCAP/MCCRVS/2025/3: English][ESCAP/MCCRVS/2025/4: English]
[ESCAP/MCCRVS/2025/5: English]

6. Other matters

7. Adoption of the ministerial declaration

8. Adoption of the report on the Third Ministerial Conference on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Asia and the Pacific

All day

Donors and Development Partners Conference

DAY 5
Friday 
27 June 2025

10:00-12:00 (MR-G)

Donors and Development Partners Conference (ESCAP)
(Concept note)

12:00-14:00
BREAK

 

14:00-16:00 (MR-G)
Donors and Development Partners Conference (ESCAP) (cont.)

All dayMaster Class: Data centered leadership for senior CRVS managers (Concept note | MR-F | 10:00-16:00 hrs.)