THIRD REGIONAL CONFERENCE FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN ON THE RIGHT TO IDENTITY AND BIRTH REGISTRATION

XIII SUMMIT OF THE LATIN AMERICAN COUNCIL OF CIVIL REGISTRATION, IDENTIFICATION, AND VITAL STATISTICS

Preliminary Agenda

September 2016

Tuesday – September 27th
09:00 am
10:00 am / Opening – Introduction
10:00 am 11:00 am / Results of the First and Second Regional Conferences on
Universal Birth Registration
·  Insights and lessons learned from regional strategies launched to guarantee universal registration (2007-2015), with a specific reference to the missing actions to achieve it.
OEA – UNICEF – IDB – INTERNATIONAL PLAN AND CLARCIEV Participation
11:00 am
12:00 pm / Registry Situation in the Americas to 2016
•  Statistical Data of the Region for 2016: correlation with current barriers of universal and timely birth registration.
• Poverty and inequity.
• Cultural Values
• Geographic Accessibility.
• Administrative Procedures.
12:00 pm
12:30 pm / Coffee break
12:30 pm
13:30 pm / Methodology of Birth Registration rates measurement
•  Ana Maria Restrepo, Monitoring Officer. UNICEF. Suggested Presentation: MICS: Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey. (Methodology, challenges, and results).
•  Keiko Osaki-Tomita, Chief, Demographic and Social Statistics Branch, UN Statistics Division. Suggested Presentation: Progress made on the evaluation methodology paper, including the identification of unregistered vital events and the evaluation of the error contents and registry precision.
•  INEGI – Mexico. Mr. Juan Enrique García López, Demographic Analysis Director. Mexico: Inter-censal survey and birth certificate: indicator definition, census indicator, census questions, and results.
13:30 pm
14:30 pm / Lunch
14:30 pm
15:30 pm / Towards Universal and Timely Birth Registration
Americas Implemented Strategies.
•  Silvia Mazzarelli, Regional Head of Child Rights Policy and Programming, Plan International, Americas Office: Key player communities on the right to identity compliance.
o  Plan International Nicaragua: The experience with the Miskito Indigenous communities in Nicaragua.
o  Plan International Guatemala: The experience with Izabal Department rural communities, in Guatemala (to be confirmed).
•  Proximity and Opportunity: birth registration in clinics and hospitals.
•  Identity as a right: Gratuity of birth registration.
•  Presentation of the Best Practices on Birth Registration National Report. Mexico
•  Registration at indigenous, Afro-descendant and vulnerable population. – Ecuador
15:30 pm
16:50 pm / Innovation in Civil Registry
•  Edward Duffus, Head of Birth Registration Innovation, Plan International: “Innovation and Birth Registration: a global perspective.”
•  Experience sharing of the countries in the Region:
•  CONAFREC –Mexico. Printing System of Interstate Certificates – Unique Certification Format for acts and facts of registration.
•  Casimira Benge, UNICEF, Chief Child Protection at UNICEF. Presentation: Registry tables initiative in Brazil /Innovative experiences from Canada.
•  Civil Registry in the United States of America.
Edward Duffus, Plan International: Conclusions.
16:50 pm
17:30 pm / Transnational Birth Registration for migrant people and their families. / The Migration Phenomena and its impact on birth registration.
Challenges of current governments.
•  OAS Representative: Situation at the Frontier of the Dominican Republic – Haiti
•  OAS Representative: The Triangle Northern Central-American Case.
•  IMUMI: Transnational registration
17:30 pm
18:30 pm / TICs Implementation of TICs to grant
Universal Registration and full access to State services.
What has been done in the region? / What needs to be done?
•  Technology Company 1 / Technology Company 2
•  Technology Company 3 / Technology Company 4
End of Activities Day 1
Wednesday – September, 28th
09:00 am
09:20 am / Right to Identity and the Sustainable Development Goals. An agenda 2030.
·  What are they?
·  What is goal No.16 about?
·  What do we have to do to comply with our corresponding goal?
09:20 am
10:15 am / Progress and challenges on legal harmonization, political policies
and birth registry services access.
Which path to follow for the coming 15 years?
•  Félix Ortega, UNICEF Consultant: Presentation of the factsheets per country(30 minutes).
•  Bolivia: Cero Undocumented Municipality
•  Hospitals Registration: Dominican Republic Case
10:15 am
11:00 am / Strategies to overcome late registration and under-registration, and the adoption of a
regional indicator to measure the progress made on the topic.
•  Reduction of barriers to ensure universal coverage.
•  An indicators expert will present the proposal of an indicator that countries may adopt freely to measure the progress in civil birth registration.
•  Linking programs of social protection and birth registration: UNICEF TACRO.
•  Presentation of a National Office (Nicaragua/Paraguay) by Plan International: University of Rights.
11:00 am
11:30 am / Coffee break
11:30 am
12:30 pm / CLARCIEV Challenge.
A 2030 Plan from a rights perspective.
•  Brenda Amarillis Gramajo González, President of CLARCIEV. RENAP Guatemala.
•  CLARCIEV Executive Committee Members 2014-2016.
•  Rebeca Omaña, Executive Secretary of CLARCIEV / OAS- PUICA.
12:30 pm
13:30 pm / Population registration through biometric information, as a mechanism to guarantee the right to identity and their full enjoyment in the whole region.
Challenges and Actions for 2030.
This panel will respond questions like:
1.  How to implement interoperability between regional databases, to make it safe, trustworthy and able to efficiently protect personal data?
2.  How to make technologies to help register and fully identify the population, without having to show any document?
•  Technology Company 1
•  Technology Company 2
•  Technology Company 3
•  Technology Company 4
13:30 pm
15:00 pm / Lunch
15:00 pm
16:00 pm / National Identification and Identity Management Systems
•  Alejandro Pareja, Modernization of the State Specialist at IDB: Quality of identification services and citizenship quality: the appliance of life simplification formalities methodology to the identity card issuance.
•  Andres Salas, IDB Expert Consultant in organizational reform.
•  UNICEF Speaker.
16:00 pm
17:00 pm / 2016-2030 Action Plan to reach Universal and Timely Birth
Registration and guaranty the Right to Identity in America.
Presentation of the joint proposal from
OAS – IDB- UNICEF – PLAN and CLARCIEV.
17:00 pm
17:30 pm / Conclusions, Recommendations and Proposal for the First Meeting of Ministers and National Authorities of the Americas on Right to Identity
17:30 pm
18:00 pm / Closure and acknowledgements.
End of Activities Day 2
Thursday - September 29th
Workshop
09:00 a.m.
14:00 p.m. / Workshop in coordination with Inter-American Development Bank
Theme: Civil Registry and TIC’s
End of Day 3 activities
Friday – September 30th.
CLARCIEV
General Assembly
09:00 a.m.
14:30 p.m. / Meeting reserved to CLARCIEV members.
End of Day 4 activities