Internship with Child Protection: Civil Registration & Vital Statistics (CRVS) Admin Data Assessment

UNICEF Jakarta is opening an internship with Child Protection to support the section in Civil Registration & Vital Statistics (CRVS).

UNICEF works in 190 countries and territories to protect the rights of every child. UNICEF has spent 70 years working to improve the lives of children and their families. Defending children's rights throughout their lives requires a global presence, aiming to produce results and understand their effects. UNICEF believes all children have a right to survive, thrive and fulfill their potential – to the benefit of a better world.

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A steadily growing economy isn't benefiting all. Half the population still lives in poverty and children's changes can vary dramatically depending on their families wealth or where they live.

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How can you make a difference?

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest among governments and international development partners in exploring ways to better utilize existing administrative data for monitoring and reporting. Making use of administrative data offers an important and effective complement to large-scale data collection efforts such as household surveys. Administrative data in many, but not all, countries are typically collected on a routine basis and are continuously updated. Such data can also be useful in exploring historical trends and often capture hard to reach populations that may not accessible via traditional survey methods. Administrative data will also help to inform general programme planning as it will demonstrate utilization of systems (in particular, health, justice and social welfare). Utilizing administrative data has the advantage of relieving respondent burden since the data are collected as part of routine administrative processes. However, there also are some important limitations with regards to administrative data. Administrative data typically reflect incidence (i.e., the number of cases in a given time period) and it is therefore difficult to calculate prevalence as denominators need to be estimated. Other challenges are differences in national or sub-national definitions and inconsistencies with international definitions, a lack of comparability across sources and/or countries given that there can be significant differences in definitions, coverage, samples and data collection methodologies, and potential duplication in recording of cases due to parallel monitoring systems. The likelihood of underreporting (particularly for some administrative sources such as police records) or over-reporting due to multiple service delivery points, high levels of missing or incomplete data, and inconsistent and/or limited data quality assurance processes are additional constraints. 

Despite these challenges, in some areas of child protection where international standards and guidelines and solid data collection methodologies and tools are still lacking, administrative records might be the only (or best) source of data for producing prevalence estimates. Strengthening such records could therefore be an important and useful investment. Additionally, administrative records can be a good source of data in those countries with well-developed and functional administrative systems; such is often the case in upper middle income and high-income countries. In addition, by working more systematically with administrative data, the limitations that are specific to each country can be identified. This, in turn, can be used to inform efforts towards systems strengthening.

UNICEF Globally currently undertakes an in-depth assessment of sources of administrative data on civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) specifically for birth and marriage registration in 5 countries, including Indonesia.

Assignments:

1. Mapping of relevant literature on birth and marriage registration in registration in Indonesia. Output: Inventory of available researches, studies, websites & database on birth registration and marriage registration.
2. Assist during the conduct of the CRVS admin data review including confirmation of the meetings, translations and field visit. Output: Consultations on CRVS  admin data assessment carried out smoothly.
3. Assist in the drafting of the case studies on birth registration including its translation. Output: Case studies on birth registration ready for PMRC submission.
4. Develop brief summary on key findings from CRVS admin data assessment (based on the report from the consultant) including its translation. Output: Summary on key findings from CRVS admin data assessment.
5. Submit report on the internship highlighting lessons learned. Output: Report on internship

 To qualify as a champion for every child you will have…

• Basic understanding of  civil registration
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and write concisely and accurately in English and Bahasa Indonesia
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision

For every Child, you demonstrate…

Our core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified candidates from all backgrounds to apply.