President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is set to launch the electronic Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System (eCRVS) and Geospatial Data Repository on Wednesday November 8, 2023 at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja.
Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), Hon Nasir Isa Kwarra, who disclosed this at a pre-event press briefing in Abuja on Monday, said the launch of eCRVS would overhaul the process of registration of births and deaths in the country.
Kwarra added that the unveiling of the system would launch Nigeria towards the attainment of the SDG Goal 16.9.2 – legal identity for all, including birth registration and laying a solid foundation for an efficient Civil registration and Vital Statistic system.
He explained that the launch of the e-CRVS by President Tinubu would mark the commitment of the current government and leadership to strengthen civil registration data capturing, collation, processing, dissemination and timely access to statistics on vital events in the country.
The said the eCRS is also aimed at accelerating the improved civil registration and vital statistics systems in Nigeria over a period of ten years, from 2023 to 2030 in a bid to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG):16.9.2 – legal identity for all, including birth registration.
Kwarra said the electronic Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System promise to revolutionize how vital events are recorded, tracked, and analysed in the country.
He continued, “It should also be noted that NPC, in the course of preparation for the first digital Census in Nigeria, the Census mapping using a ‘cutting edge’ technological methodology, ie Geographic Information System (GIS) captured geospatial data covering a multidimensional theme with total coverage of the Country.
The system provides a digital certificate in all cases, an accessible verification platform to registered organizations, and has a central management system (dashboard) that depicts and analyses collated civil registrations into vital statistics for proper decision-making.
This process marks a complete departure from traditional paper-based recording of vital events to a state-of-the-art digital solution that conforms to international best practices.
Our confidence is reinforced in the fact that, over the years, the Commission has invested considerable time and resources planning for an improved digitization process in Census mapping, capturing vital statics data to give the nation a truly electronic Civil Registration & Vital Statistics data for socio-economic planning and providing the Nation with a near real time georeferenced Census data update.”