(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s civil registration and vital statistics are to be improved thanks to a new partnership between the United Nations Population Fund in Vietnam and Vital Strategies as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative.
Under the new deal signed on Friday, the programme will be carried out from July 2020 to March 2021 by the Vietnamese Ministry of Justice in collaboration with relevant ministries and agencies.
It aims at supporting the Government’s efforts to improve the quality of birth and death registration, including causes of death in Vietnam, through strengthening CRVS governance, assessing CRVS system functioning, conducting CRVS legal and regulatory reviews, developing plans to improve the assignment of causes of death using internationally recognised standards, improving the monitoring and evaluation framework, and producing vital statistics reports.
The close collaboration and exchange of CRVS data among different relevant agencies will improve data quality and consistency, increase completeness of registration, and reduce costs.