Overview

In order to identify appropriate CRVS technologies that are feasible in the current context, it is important to understand what opportunities and limitations exist in-country to support a digital CRVS system. These opportunities will later be used to inform the definition of the target digital CRVS system and processes.

Steps:

1

Assess the current physical and technical infrastructure available in-country and how it can be used to support a digital CRVS system, consulting stakeholders with technical knowledge within both the government and private sector.

  • What physical and technical infrastructure exists for CRVS e.g. Office buildings, computers, printer/scanners, internet connectivity, electricity?
  • What physical and technical infrastructure exists across the country e.g. electricity, internet connectivity, data centres, mobile phone networks and coverage?
  • What e-Government technical infrastructure exists e.g. data centres, shared services, cloud computing, system integration platforms?
  • What is the rate of mobile phone penetration and on which type of devices (e.g. smartphone, feature phone)?
2

Identify and assess current human capacity to build, maintain and use digital CRVS systems.

  • What government capacity exists to build and/or maintain a digital CRVS system?
  • What private sector capacity exists to build and/or maintain a digital CRVS system?
  • What is the current capacity of CRVS staff to use digital systems in their day-to-day job?
  • Who are the potential actors that could perform new roles within the registration process e.g. community based registration, social welfare programmes?
  • How do citizens perceive the use of digital technologies for capturing personal information?
3

Identify and assess existing initiatives that might inform the design of the digitised CRVS system.

  • What digital projects are being implemented by other ministries or departments which have synergies with CRVS e.g. mHealth application being used to register mothers and newborns?
  • What digital projects for CRVS are being piloted by non-government organisations e.g. data collection tool being used to monitor vital event registration?
4

Identify and assess system integration opportunities.

  • What is the perceived necessity and potential to integrate digitised CRVS within the broader eGovernment systems landscape e.g. health systems, education systems, population registers, national identity systems and statistics systems?
  • What systems have the potential to be a source of vital event information e.g. health registration, school enrolment systems?
  • What data is already being captured (manually or digitally) for purposes other than civil registration that closely resembles vital events data e.g. vaccination records of infants?
5

Assess what legal changes are required to support a digitised CRVS system.

  • Assess the existing legislative and policy landscape, considering whether it supports digital CRVS systems and processes.
  • Identify legal and policy changes required to support and facilitate digitised CRVS systems and processes. Consider all elements identified in the Elemental Legal Framework for the Civil Registry (UNICEF, 2015).

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Elemental Legal Framework for the Civil Registry

6

For each of the business requirements defined in the CRVS Business Architecture, consider the opportunities and limitations identified above to determine:

  • Which requirements can be addressed through the use of digital technologies?
  • Which requirements cannot be addressed through technology, but demand other responses e.g. increasing awareness through the use of a communications campaign? These requirements should be fed into the CRVS strategic planning process.