A self-paced e-learning course on data cleaning for civil registration-based vital statistics (CRVS) has been launched by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in partnership with the Pacific Community (SPC), Vital Strategies and the Norway Office for National Statistics.
An estimated one million children in the Pacific region lack an official identity, hampering their access to education, healthcare and legal rights, said SPC’s Mr Jeff Montgomery in an interview today with New Zealand radio programme ‘Pacific Mornings’.
Medical practitioners across the North Pacific gathered in Guam last week for a hands-on training aimed at one of civil registration’s critical challenges: accurately recording causes of death.
Users of population projections and estimates in PDH.stat on the Pacific Data Hub are notified of an important change in the source for these data from 10 April 2025.
From the right to vote to reliable population counts, the high number of births and deaths that go unrecorded in the Pacific has generational impacts on both individuals and their country.
The improvement of civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems in the Pacific requires a diverse set of technical expertise that is not available in any one agency.
From September 30th to October 2nd the 18th Pasifika Medical Association conference is held in Port Vila, Vanuatu under the theme of ‘Culture, Community Healing, Primary Care & Workforce in the Pacific'.