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<p>Accurately recording births, deaths, adoptions, marriages and divorces will be
critical in achieving the newly agreed Global Goals. In fragile contexts, registration
is essential to enable refugees to obtain humanitarian services and protection under
international law.</p><br /><p>Although globally, the births of nearly 230 million
children under age five have never been recorded and almost two thirds of deaths are
not counted at all, some progress is being made, largely in Latin America and Asia.
The increasing use of technology and the private sector have played important enabling
roles in building this momentum and will continue to be crucial to further progress.</p><br
/><p>DFID supports statistical capacity building and implementation of national statistical
plans in a number of countries through global programmes such as the Statistics for
Results Facility Catalytic Fund (SRF-CF), implemented in eight countries. In Nigeria,
for example, SRF-CF supported eight outreach birth/death registration centres. DFID
also provides bilateral support to countries’ national statistical systems.</p><br
/><p>At a policy level, DFID supports the Commission for Information and Accountability
(COIA) where CRVS is one of ten priority areas. DFID also provides support to the
UNHCR, the mandated UN agency to advocate for the protection and promotion of the
rights of refugees, which plays a crucial role in assisting refugees in with documentation.
To date, DFID has allocated over £44 million to UNHCR’s operations in Jordan and in
Lebanon, of which a proportion will go to funding the registration and issuing of
birth certificates for refugees.</p>
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