
Romesh Silva
@romesh_silva
Demographer, UN Population Fund 🇺🇳 Civil Registration & Vital Statistics, Demography of Armed Conflict, Human Rights, Population Data in Humanitarian Settings
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http://www.unfpa.org 05-05-2013 20:18:30
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Happening Now! UNFPA, United NationsWomen & the Global Program on Ending Child Marriage is hosting a side event of the #68CSW on unpacking tensions and synergies between efforts to end child marriage and investments to strengthen birth & marriage registration. Join us at @UN with PUSKAPA


Happening Now! UNFPA, Maria A Reed Stacey & the Global Program on Ending Child Marriage is hosting a side event of the #68CSW on unpacking tensions and synergies between efforts to end child marriage and investments to strengthen birth & marriage registration. Join us at United Nations with PUSKAPA


Today, UNFPA welcomed National Population Commission Nigeria for a deep dive into the protective role of birth & marriage registration in ending child marriage. Considering the huge population, federated system & vast country, context specific strategies needs to be implemented. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health


We congratulate National Population Commission🇳🇬 4 progress in birth registration especially digitization of the e-CRVS & linkage to NIMC identity mgmt sys. More needs to be done in strengthening registration of marriages, divorces & deaths. Grateful to IDRC | CRDI 4 support in #CRVS improvement

UNFPA Center of Excellence for #CRVS & UNFPA Nigeria with support from IDRC | CRDI welcomes the opportunity to work with National Population Commission to strengthen marriage & divorce registration for all residents across 774 local governments in 36 federated states of Nigeria🇳🇬 #LegalIdentity4All

Because everybody counts! UNFPA Data and Analytics is honored to host the Ctr of Excellence for #CRVS Systems. 🙏🏾Thank you IDRC | CRDI Montasser.Kamal Sana Naffa Priscilla Idele, PhD @juliabuntingPC Eduard Mihalas Violet Kinuthia #SDGs 🇺🇳🇨🇦🌐📈

Such a pleasure to be working with Equality Insights Open Data Watch Global Partnership to ensure everybody counts and no one is left behind. Thank you to governments of Australia and Solomon Islands for supporting inclusive data systems to end poverty.


Great to take stock of the deep partnership b/w National Civil Registration Authority Sierra Leone & @unfpa, identify strategic areas of engagement for Centre of Excellence for #CRVS Systems, & optimize engagement via UNFPASierraleon UNFPA WCARO UNFPA Data and Analytics #everybodycounts Nadia Rasheed Priscilla Idele, PhD @juliabuntingPC



.UNFPA is UN World Data Forum to advance the important work of making everyone count, by counting everyone. 1 of 6 sessions co-organised by #UNFPA is Enhancing #CRVS systems: Intersectional Approaches & Resource Mobilisation for Inclusive & Sustainable Development, w/ Open Data Watch




Also UNFPA’s Common operational datasets on population statistics are one of the most frequently downloaded and used datasets on the OCHA OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data humanitarian data exchange?! #HDX Complex Risk Analytics Fund Javier Terán Priscilla Idele, PhD Papa Seck #becauseeverybodycounts


As the Regional Workshop closed, UNFPA Chief Priscilla Idele, PhD thanked governments for their unwavering commitment to strengthening CRVS systems & applauded UNFPA, ECA, @ECOWAS & World Bank for convening experts on data analysis & reporting - The work has just started!


What role do #CRVS systems play in #gender equality & inclusive development? Join our partner briefing ahead of the 4th Global CRVS & Gender Symposium 🗓️ 3 July | 🕘 9–10AM ET 📍 Online: lnkd.in/egHDM9vu Co-hosted by UNFPA Open Data Watch IDRC | CRDI & others

