D. Strategic enablers that would bring about institutional excellence at national and continental levels Table 5 Strategic enabler: Institutional excellence at continental and national levels Strategic objectives 4.1: Lead and manage the Africa Programme initiative 4.2: Mobilize resources for civil registration and vital statistics at continental and national level 4.3: Invest in multisectoral civil registration and vital statistics skills and capabilities 4.4: Establish and enhance the infrastructure and systems to develop or improve civil registration and vital statistics information capital at national and continental levels Expected outputs Continental costed strategic plan for civil registration and vital statistics developed National costed strategic plans for civil registration and vital statistics developed Annual reports on work progress Funded civil registration and vital statistics programme at the continental level Trained multisectoral civil registration and vital statistics practitioners Regional knowledge-sharing website is established National civil registration websites are established A pool of trained civil registration and vital statistics digitization experts Open civil registration and vital statistics software is developed Increased number of countries with their civil registration and vital statistics processes digitized in a sustainable manner Increased number of countries with their civil registration and vital statistics systems linked with national identification systems and health management information systems Indicators Number of countries that have developed costed strategic plans Number of countries submitting progress reports on the implementation of strategic plans to relevant national and international bodies Percentage of successfully implemented activities from the Strategic Plan for given year Number of people trained in the basic principles and practices of civil registration and vital statistics through activities included in the strategic plan Number of page views of the civil registration website Number of countries trained on the principles of civil registration and vital statistics digitization Whether open civil registration and vital statistics software is developed Number of countries with electronic data capture on the local level Number of countries with an electronic centralized civil registration and vital statistics database Number of countries with a digital link between civil registration system and national identification system Number of countries with a digital link between civil registration system and health management information system 19