Ghana’s Births & Deaths Registrar chairs African Electronic Registration System Advisory Board
Madam Henrietta Lamptey, Registrar, Births and Deaths Registry (BDR), has been chosen to chair the maiden African Electronic Registration System Advisory Board.
The Board is an initiative established to expedite the event and deployment of digital Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (eCRVS) programs throughout Africa.
Madam Lamptey would maintain the place for 2 years.
This was disclosed to the media at a workshop in Accra on Monday, August 12.
The workshop, which was for editors and senior journalists was to boost consciousness on the significance of well timed births and deaths registration.
It was to additionally educate the media on births and deaths registration procedures and necessities and spotlight the vital areas of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 2020 (Act 1027).
The workshop equally served as an avenue to deepen collaboration between the Registry and the media to successfully disseminate the marketing campaign on well timed registration.
The Board for the African eCRVS Shared Asset (ACSA), would promote standardisation and harmonisation to satisfy the continent’s distinctive wants in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics.
Madam Lamptey would lead the Board to develop and implement the ACSA initiative and supply technical and oversight assist for the digitalisation of CRVS programs in Africa.
She would additionally be certain that the Board establishes a normative framework, together with design rules and knowledge requirements for CRVS digitalisation.
Additionally, she would assist the Board to guage and suggest appropriate digital options for the Shared Asset.
Aside Ghana, the ACSA Advisory Board has representatives from different African nations particularly Angola, Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Egypt, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
The nations had been chosen based mostly on standards equivalent to geographical and linguistic illustration, and their dedication to the modernisation and digital transformation of CRVS programs.
The ACSA Advisory Board represents a major step in the direction of enhancing the CRVS programs throughout Africa, selling environment friendly and standardised digital options that cater to the various wants of the continent.
Source: GNA
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