President Bola Tinubu to Unveil Electronic Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System and Geospatial Data Repository
On Wednesday, President Bola Tinubu is expected to launch Nigeria's electronic Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System and Geospatial Data Repository. This move demonstrates the current government's commitment to enhancing civil registration data capturing, collation, processing, dissemination, and timely access to statistics on vital events in the country. The goal is to accelerate the improved civil registration and vital statistics systems in Nigeria over ten years, from 2023 to 2030, in a bid to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal.
The National Population Commission, in collaboration with the United Nations Children's Fund, developed the eCRVS Operational Readiness Assessment Report. This report highlighted the potential of digital technologies in providing transformative outcomes in CRVS and integrating data from multiple systems to securely store data at scale in a cost-effective way in Nigeria.
The Commission is partnering with Barnksforte Technologies Limited to develop a Public Private Partnership arrangement to promote the Vital Reg System as a completely electronic system that digitalizes all civil registrations, such as birth registration, stillbirth registration, birth attestation, adoption, marriage notification, divorce notification, migration, and death. This will replace the traditional paper-based recording of vital events with a state-of-the-art digital solution that conforms to international best practices.
The system provides a digital certificate in all cases, an accessible verification platform to registered organizations, and a central management system (dashboard) that depicts and analyses collated civil registrations into vital statistics for proper decision-making. The electronic CRVS promises to revolutionize how vital events are recorded, tracked, and analyzed in the country.
Additionally, the Census mapping using a 'cutting-edge' technological methodology, i.e., Geographic Information System, captured geospatial data covering a multidimensional theme with total coverage of the country. This repository database will also be launched for the use of the public and private sector in Nigeria. The CRVS National Coordination Committee will also be inaugurated by Mr. President.
