Henrietta Lamptey, the Acting Registrar of the Births and Deaths Registry, has lamented Ghana's low rate of civil registrations and vital statistics.
Despite Ghana's lengthy experience with civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS), she claimed that the quality of the data provided and the level of civil registration of important events both remained too low.
She said that the death registration issue was significantly more serious.
Mrs. Lamptey was addressing a session for organizations whose work involves the creation of CRVS.
The registrar expressed her expectation that attendees would leave the course with the necessary knowledge and abilities to significantly enhance the registration procedure for important events.
She said that doing so would assist the nation in achieving objective 16.9 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The four-day training was a component of the activities of the CRVS system improvement framework project in Ghana and was hosted by the Births and Deaths Registry in partnership with the Ghana Statistical Service.
Participants from the Ghana Police Service, National Identification Authority, Judicial Service, Ghana Health Service, National Road Safety Authority, Office of the Attorney General's Department, and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) attended the workshop, which was sponsored by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).
Others included the Registrar General's Department, the Ministry of Local Government, Decentralization, and Rural Development, the Pathology Department of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, and other specialists. The CRVS program in Ghana
Participants were guided through a variety of subjects throughout the four-day training program with the goal of strengthening their grasp of the CRVS business process models. They were warned to operate CRVS like a business by putting the needs of the client first.
After that, the participants were divided into task teams and given the goal of improving the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) by coming up with solutions for a variety of subjects, including weddings, divorces, birth registration, and death registration.
UNECA is dedicated to assisting in the improvement of the nation's CRVS system, according to Dr. William Muhwava, Chief of the Demographic and Social Statistics Section at the African Centre for Statistics of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).
He praised the institutions and organizations for the job they had already accomplished.
Participants were advised by Dr. Muhwava to drive and own the CRVS system.
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