Welcome to our seventh edition of More than Numbers.
The e-newsletter that keeps you up-to-date on what is happening in the civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) arm of the
Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative (D4H) by
the University of Melbourne.
I hope this finds you well.
We are delighted to be able to continue to support CRVS strengthening in five of our partner countries: China, Myanmar, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. We have collectively made tremendous progress in these countries over the past four years and we are excited to be working with them to accelerate CRVS reforms in the next two.
We provide some more detail in this newsletter about the exciting developments in two of these countries, China and Myanmar, which will give you a very good idea of the progress that has been made in the past four years and our plans for the next two.
The Fellowship Program has been a massive success over the past four years, with 30 fellows from 12 countries. We are now looking for new fellows for our next intake. If this appeals to you, please apply or share the link with anyone who may be interested. Make sure to be quick though, applications close on the 5th of August!
We thank you for the last survey some of you completed earlier this year, the results have brought some potential improvements to our attention. We are now looking at the ease of use of the Gateway and we ask that you help us improve it further by completing the 2 minute survey below.
We've introduced a mailing list for ANACONDA and ANACONDA Plus. I encourage you to subscribe to field any questions you may have and to receive any ANACONDA updates.
On the Gateway, we've had new products uploaded that detail information on the CRVS Performance Metrics Toolkit, OpenCRVS and a report with case studies on CRVS information networks in Ghana and Peru. Additionally, we've also added CRVS tools and resources that have been translated to Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish.
Please have a read through below and I look forward to providing further updates in a few months.
Best wishes,
Laureate Professor Alan Lopez AC, Director
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The Data for Health Initiative is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Australian Government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)