Background Death registration provides an opportunity for the legal documentation of death
of persons. Documentation of deaths has several implications including its use in the …

The second paragraph of Article 6 of the African Charter on the right and welfare of the child
obliges its States parties to register birth immediately. Birth registration is a key to other …

Background Nigeria's national health information system (HIS) data sources are grouped
into institutional and population based data that traverse many government institutions …

Purpose Achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls is the fifth
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). This continues the effort of the third Millennium …

Objective Improving civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems is essential to
monitoring health objectives locally and globally. The barriers to birth and particularly death …

Background The birth of a child is a vital event that needs to be registered but this is not
always the case as an estimated 40 million births go unregistered annually. Birth registration …

Promoting birth certification is central to achieving legal identity for all-target 16.9 of the 2030
Sustainable Development Goals. Nigeria is not on track to achieve this goal with its low …

While according to the United Nations birth registration is a human right, in sub-Saharan
Africa (SSA) only half of new-born children currently have their birth registered. To gain …

The past decade has been marked by an increase in the number of products sold through
online shops. Various types of businesses that originally were only available offline have …

Birth registration, an essential component of the civil registration system, is expected to be
complete and universal. This study assesses the progress made in recent years and …