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 42

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