Strengthening Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Mozambique
| Reporting Organization: | UNICEF-WHO Partnership |
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| Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 19,500,000 |
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| Timeframe: |
January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2020 |
| Status: |
Implementation |
| Contact Information: |
Unspecified |
Partner & Funder Profiles
Reporting Organization
UNICEF-WHO Partnership
Participating Organizations
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Government and Public Sector
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NGOs
Funders (Total Budget Contribution)
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Government and Public Sector
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Location
Country - Total Budget Allocation
| Mozambique - $ 19,500,000.00 (100.00%) |
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Areas of Focus
Health - Total Budget Allocation
| Health Systems, Training & Infrastructure (50 %) |
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Other - Total Budget Allocation
| Law, Governance & Public Policy (50 %) |
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Description
According to the SDG’s goal 16.9, by 2020, legal entity for all including birth registration, and Mozambique Government has been working to promote equity and impulse the access to different social services such as civil registration through the strengthening of the system.
However, the scenario shows lack of data of vital events, especially for birth registration and death registration. Currently more than 45% of children under 5 years in Mozambique (IMASIDA, 2015) still lack birth registration documents and only 12.1% of deaths were registered in 2013 (DNRN, 2014), that is, there is still no real notion about the new inhabitants and what citizens are no longer part of our society.
Through UNICEF and WHO, the High Commission of Canada is supporting the Government of Mozambique technically and financially to develop strategies which promote improvements in the civil registration system (legal framework, capacity of service delivery and coordination).
Target Population
| Gender and age: |
Adult women
Adult men
Adolescent females
Adolescent males
Children, girls
Children, boys
Under-5 children
Newborns
Older adults, women
Older adults, men
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| Total Direct Population: |
Unspecified |
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Outputs
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Awareness raising and social mobilization campaigns conducted |
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Community members sensitized |
| 1 |
CRVS Strategic Plan 2019-2029 drafted |
| 1 |
Electronic civil registration and vital statistics system (eCRVS) developed |
| 1 |
MOU signed |
| 120 |
eCRVS installed in posts |
| 61 |
Computers and peripherals acquired |
| 61 |
Technicians trained |
| 72 |
eCRVS installed in conservatories |
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Results & Indicators
Expected Results
1. Strengthened legislation and increased awareness raising and advocacy, or the creation of an enabling environment for civil registration including the establishment of a legislative and regulatory framework to support the new civil registration system with clearly defined roles and responsibilities of each government institution involved.
2. Increased registration of vital events, through a simplified and decentralized civil registration system to allow all births and deaths to be registered and for users to receive their certificates free of cost. The activities outlined in this proposal will enable the Government to increase birth registration rates by the end of 2017 to 60% and by the end of 2019 to 80%.
Achieved Results
Approved the new civil registration code that foresees the elimination of territorial barriers, the creation of NUIC and registration by the web platform as well as notification of the registry using the USSD by duly accredited community agents.
An MOU under the umbrella of GITEV was signed between the Ministries of Justice, Health, Science and Technology, Foreign Affairs, State Administration and Public Function, Interior and the Institutions of National Institute of Statistics and Eduardo Mondlane University to improve CRVS in Mozambique.
-CRVS Strategic Plan 2019-2029 drafted.
-Installation of eCRVS in 72 conservatories and 120 posts with equipment and technicians trained, already carrying out both registration and notification through the system.
-8,420 children notified their birth through USSD
-3,525,243 birth registration carried out
-Technicians of the MJCR, MINT, INE and MISAU trained regarding notification of birth and death through USSD.
Awareness raising and social mobilization campaigns have been taking place in the communities where the eCRVS is being implemented; in collaboration with Save the Children, a Formative Research was conducted to understand the reasons of low birth and death registration and to use the results to develop a concise Communication Strategy for CRVS.
Indicators
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Associated Projects (If applicable)
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