Annex V List of minimum requirements for a civil registration system The Africa Programme secretariat developed the following list of minimum requirements for a civil registration system, aligning it with international principles and practices, as a component of the monitoring and evaluation framework: (a) The system covers all four priority vital events (birth, death, marriage and divorce) occurring in every geographical area to every population group in the country, and their registration is compulsory; (b) Registration of birth and death does not involve any financial costs to the family or informant when conducted within the legally stipulated time; (c) Adequate resources are provided for the operations of the system (Timely and adequate supply of civil registration forms and associated materials to the local registration offices); (d) There is a routine training schedule for civil registrars and other personnel engaged in civil registration operations with handbooks and manuals on civil registration provided for reference purposes; (e) There is an institutionalized monitoring and evaluation framework, computed regularly and based on the system itself, for the civil registration and vital statistics system and registration completeness of all vital events. 53