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The National Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), Mr. Nasir Isa Kwarra, says the soon-to-be launched digital Civil Registration and Vital Registration System (CRVS) is according to the Sixth Session of Conference of African Ministers chargeable for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS).

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will on Wednesday, eighth November 2023, launch the CRVS on the State House Conference Centre, Abuja at 10:00 a.m.

The launch, which is being organized by the National Population Commission in collaboration with the UNICEF and Barnksforte Technologies Limited, may even function the launch of the National Geospatial Data Repository and the inauguration of the National Coordination Committee on CRVS.

Speech: Press Briefing on the Presidential Launch of the Electronic Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System and National Geospatial Data Repository delivered by the NPC Chairman, Hon. Nasir Isa Kwarra, fnsa on the NPC’s Headquarters, Abuja in the present day, sixth November 2023. pic.twitter.com/wSssvUzGeA

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Mr. Kwarra stated the African ministers had made a number of resolutions and inspired all international locations on the continent to automate the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics course of and make sure the implementation of the United Nations Legal Identity Agenda.

He made this recognized throughout a press convention in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.

According to Mr Kwarra, “this process marks a complete departure from traditional paper-based recording of vital events to a state-of- the-art digital solution that conforms to international best practices.”

He assured that the digital Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System promised to revolutionize how important occasions are recorded, tracked, and analyzed within the nation.

The chairman of the fee additionally defined that the report supplied the holistic method to the longer term state imaginative and prescient for digitized CRVS, the roll-out of a decentralized digital start registration system as a part of CRVS, and recognized areas to strengthen the automation of the system.

“The report ushered in the bold step taken by the commission for a transformative innovation of the CRVS (Vital Reg) system by developing a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement between the commission and Barnksforte Technologies Limited, a reputable, and innovative indigenous ICT solution provider with a track record of success in ICT solution provision with government agencies.

“The Public Private Partnership arrangement is to promote the Vital Registration System as a complete electronic system that digitalizes all civil registrations such as birth registration, still birth registration, birth attestation, adoption, marriage notification, divorce notification, migration and death,” he acknowledged.

The system additionally supplies a digital certificates in all circumstances, an accessible verification platform to registered organizations and has a central administration system (dashboard) that depicts and analyzes collated civil registrations into important statistics for correct decision-making.

“It should also be noted that NPC in the course of preparation for the first digital census in Nigeria, the census-mapping – using a ‘cutting edge’ technological methodology ie Geographic Information System (GIS) – captured geospatial data covering a multidimensional theme with total coverage of the country,” he added.