International Consultant - Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Strategy and Implementation Roadmap, Sri Lanka

Overview

The consultant will develop a national Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) strategy and an implementation roadmap for Sri Lanka, engaging all relevant stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct an assessment and review of the existing CRVS system, including legal, institutional, and operational frameworks.
• Review previous CRVS assessments, studies, and initiatives.
• Map and engage key stakeholders involved in CRVS.
• Consolidate potential redesign ideas to improve coordination between health sector and civil registration authorities.
• Assess mortality and cause-of-death data systems, including medical certification and coding practices.
• Review data workflows and identify gaps affecting the quality, completeness, timeliness, and use of mortality data.
• Identify capacity building needs for mortality and cause of death reporting standards and data quality assessments.
• Review digital CRVS systems, focusing on interoperability, functional requirements, and non-functional requirements.
• Review linkages between CRVS systems and health information systems.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen interoperability and data integration.
• Conduct stakeholder consultations to identify priority areas and validate findings.
• Support prioritization of interventions.
• Develop the national CRVS strategy (2027-2031), including vision, mission, strategic approach, targets, challenges, actions, resources, and monitoring framework.
• Develop an implementation roadmap with timelines, responsibilities, and KPIs.
• Present the draft strategy and roadmap for validation and finalize the documents.

Required Experience

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in public health, health information systems, civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS), or related areas.
• Demonstrated experience in CRVS system strengthening, mortality statistics, or cause-of-death data systems.
• Experience contributing to the development of national strategies, policies, or action plans, particularly in health information systems or CRVS.
• Experience working with government institutions, national statistical offices, ministries of health, or international organizations.
• Experience working in low- and middle-income country settings, preferably in the WHO South-East Asia Region (desirable).

Qualifications

• Advanced university degree (Master’s level or higher) in Public Health, Epidemiology, Demography, Health Information Systems, Statistics, Population Studies, Health Policy, or a related field.
• Additional training or certification in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS), health information systems, mortality statistics, or ICD coding (desirable).

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