Maintaining civil registration resilience amid the COVID-19 crisis : Tanzania’s one-step birth and death registration processes

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2021

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This policy brief underscores the value of the one-step, decentralized and digitized, birth and death registration and certification business processes that Tanzania has implemented since 2013. Thanks to these redesigned civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems, government lockdown measures during the COVID-19 pandemic did not have a dramatic impact on service delivery. In 2020 for the first time, births were allowed to be registered directly, online. The documents are subsequently reviewed and confirmed with an official certificate available for pickup. The system platform is designed specifically to prevent fraud.

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CIVIL REGISTRATION AND VITAL STATISTICS, CRVS, DIGITIZATION, VITAL STATISTICS, DATA COLLECTION, BIRTH RECORDS, PANDEMIC, DISASTER PREPAREDNESS, LEGAL IDENTITY, COVID-19, CAPACITY BUILDING, INSTITUTION BUILDING, TANZANIA, HEALTH SYSTEMS, GLOBAL

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http://hdl.handle.net/10625/60223

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IDRC Research Results / Résultats de recherches du CRDI
2020-2029 / Années 2020-2029
Research Results (CRVS) / Résultats de recherches (ESEC)