Strategic objectives
3.1: Secure and maintain
political commitment for
civil registration
3.2: Strengthen
collaboration and
cooperation between panAfrican organizations
and other partners
3.3: Strengthen and
sustain an integrated
multisectoral national
coordination and
technical mechanisms
4.1: Lead and manage the
Africa Programme
initiative
Expected outputs
Ministerial
commitment to
improvement in civil
registration and vital
statistics in Africa is
maintained
The Programme is
implemented jointly in
a coordinated and
collaborative manner
by pan-African
institutions and other
partners
Partnerships
institutionalized for
civil registration and
vital statistics systems
at country level
Continental costed
strategic plan for civil
registration and vital
statistics developed
Indicators
Number of countries using death rates from civil
registration to produce life tables in official
statistics
Number of countries using vital statistics from
civil registration to evaluate completeness or
quality of population census results
Number of ministers responsible for civil
registration attending the Conference of African
Ministers responsible for Civil Registration
Regional Core Group is formalized through a
memorandum of understanding
Percentage of activities from the strategic plan
for a given year implemented with substantial
contributions of partners (substantial contribution
implies technical expertise or provision of
funding)
Number of countries with high-level civil
registration and vital statistics coordination
committees formalized by a binding legal or
administrative document18
Number of countries with civil registration and
vital statistics technical committees
Whether the continental strategic plan for civil
registration and vital statistics is developed and
costed
Target
Baseline
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
1015
10
12
16
22
30
1015
10
12
16
22
30
2017
54
-
54
-
54
No
Yes
-
-
-
Yes
0
100
100
100
100
100
1515
15
19
27
29
54
515
5
10
20
35
54
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
17
Calculation based on the Africa Programme secretariat records.
Owing to the limitations of the monitoring form, in the baseline calculation this indicator was replaced with a proxy, that is, a number of countries reporting that they have
high-level coordination committees in place, whether they are formalized by a binding legal or administrative document or not.
18
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