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Achieving Health Outcomes in Colombia : Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System, Unique Personal Identification Number, and Unified Beneficiary Registry System for Births an...
Toro Roa, Juan Pablo - 2019
This case study on Colombia describes how the civil registration and national identification system and the health information system have facilitated progress toward universal health coverage. The study includes a description of Colombia's General Social Health Insurance System (Sistema General...
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Stocktaking of Global Forced Displacement Data
Sarzin, Zara - 2017
Conflict-induced forced displacement is receiving increased interest within the international community. However, establishing an accurate picture of its scale and dynamics is extremely challenging. Large amounts of data on forced displacement are collected and disseminated each year and used to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246356
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Integration of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics and Identity Management Systems : Botswana Success Story
Republic of Botswana (contributor); World Bank (contributor) - Republic of Botswana - 2015
The initiative of a case study on Botswana's successful integration of civil and identification registers comes against a backdrop of major continental and global efforts to accelerate improvement in the area of civil registration. The national identification system (NIS) is linked with other...
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Civil Registration and Vital Statistics for Monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals
Mills, Samuel - 2017
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) defines civil registration as the continuous, permanent, compulsory and universal recording of the occurrence and characteristics of vital events pertaining to the population, as provided through decree or regulation in accordance with the legal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247446
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Estimating small area population density using survey data and satellite imagery : an application to Sri Lanka
Engstrom, Ryan; Newhouse, David Locke; Soundararajan, Vidhya - 2019
Country-level census data are typically collected once every 10 years. However, conflict, migration, urbanization, and natural disasters can cause rapid shifts in local population patterns. This study uses Sri Lankan data to demonstrate the feasibility of a bottom-up method that combines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008163
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A novel approach to the automatic designation of predefined census enumeration areas and population sampling frames : a case study in Somalia
Qader, Sarchil; Lefebvre, Veronique; Ninneman, Amy; … - 2019
Enumeration areas are the operational geographic units for the collection, dissemination, and analysis of census data and are often used as a national sampling frame for various types of surveys. Traditionally, enumeration areas are created by manually digitizing small geographic units on...
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Small area estimation of poverty under structural change
Lange, Simon; Pape, Utz Johann; Pütz, Peter - 2018
Small area poverty maps allow for the design of policies based on spatial differences in welfare. They are typically estimated based on a consumption survey reporting on poverty and a census providing the spatial disaggregation. This paper presents a new method which allows for the estimation of...
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Biomass Resource Mapping in Pakistan : Final Report on Biomass Atlas
World Bank - 2016
Pakistan is facing a large deficit in electricity supply. A report published by the Government of Pakistan (GoP) in … the ongoing renewable energy resource mapping project in Pakistan. The objective of this biomass mapping component is to … government and provincial authorities in Pakistan, and commercial project developers, with an improved understanding of the …
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Strengthening Local Providers for Improved Rural Water Supply in Pakistan
World Bank - 2016
World Bank executed technical assistance (TA) on strengthening local providers for improved rural water supply in Pakistan …
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Pakistan--Tracing the Flow of Public Money : Punjab Expenditure and Quantity of Service Delivery Survey in Primary School Sector
World Bank Group - 2015
The main objective of the report is to provide recommendations for policy makers and sector managers to help improve service delivery and the resultant outcomes in primary education. The fundamental premise of this analysis stems from Punjab Social Sector Public Expenditure Review conducted in...
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