CRVS Journalism Training: Training journalists in the use of CRVS data for impactful storytelling

24-26 June 2025 | Day 1, Day 2: Meeting room F (9:00-17:00 hrs) | Day 3: Coverage of the MCCRVS

As data become more prevalent and accessible, good reporting on civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) – at the community, national, and global levels – requires journalists who can:

• understand and publicize the importance of functioning CRVS systems as a government responsibility;
• understand CRVS data and appreciate trends and patterns in the data; and
• communicate findings about CRVS and from CRVS data to their audience clearly, succinctly, and accurately.

The training is designed for journalists who wish to increase their capacity to use CRVS data to support and enrich their work. It focusses on improving journalists’ abilities to source, understand, and translate relevant data into rich and compelling stories and to evaluate government public health claims using CRVS data.

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Conference of donors and development partners supporting civil registration and vital statistics improvements in Asia and the Pacific

27 June 2025 | Meeting room G (10:00-16:00 hrs.)

The Donors and Development Partners Conference is designed to ensure donors and development partners are aware of the outcomes of the Third Ministerial Conference on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific and provides an opportunity to align donors and development partners’ activities in the area of CRVS, often within sectoral specific support to civil registration, health, statistics and digitalization. The conference will also provide opportunities for donors and development partners involved in supporting government systems (e.g. social protection programs) that benefit from fully functional, complete, and digitized civil registration systems, to discuss how their interventions could link to national civil registration systems for efficiency gains.

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The conference aims to:

• Create awareness of the important role of donors and development partners in the significant CRVS improvements made during the CRVS Decade
• Identify current funding priorities, strategies and approaches
• Agree on how to align activities with the priorities and identify any funding gaps
• Raise awareness about the value of investments in CRVS systems to accompany a wide range of development efforts

Master Class: Data centered leadership for senior CRVS managers

27 June 2025 | Meeting room F (10:00-16:00 hrs.)

Data-Centered Leadership for CRVS Management is an executive development program for CRVS senior managers to lead data-driven organizations by enhancing their personal ability to use/manage with data and identifying opportunities to improve data use practices in the CRVS system.

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Objectives

The objective of the masterclass is to strengthen the capacity of CRVS senior managers to lead data-driven organizations by:

• Enhancing their personal ability to use data effectively to inform their operational, programmatic, and policy decision-making within the CRVS system
• Strengthen Data Use Practices to enable their department to leverage available CRVS data more robustly for enhancing

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Interested candidates, you can submit your applications here.