Overview
The consultant will support Rajasthan’s Directorate of Economics and Statistics and other relevant ministries/agencies to assess inequalities in CRVS Rajasthan and conduct an assessment, analysis, and redesign of birth and death registration processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct desk review of relevant legislation, strategies, standard operating procedures, previous assessments, and global good practices.
- Support the establishment and functioning of a state-level CRVS Core Team.
- Contribute to the design and delivery of an inception workshop.
- Prepare a short inception note.
- Identify and map available data sources for assessing CRVS inequalities.
- Conduct quantitative analysis of birth and death registration completeness and disparities.
- Apply indirect demographic methods to assess under-registration and population coverage gaps.
- Investigate behavioural drivers impacting civil registration.
- Prepare draft analytical sections for the CRVS inequality assessment report.
- Support consultations with CRVS stakeholders to document “as-is” CRVS business processes.
- Develop detailed process descriptions and maps.
- Support CRVS stakeholders to identify bottlenecks, redundancies, delays, and coordination issues.
- Support the organisation and facilitation of BPI consultation workshops.
- Contribute to the development of redesigned (“as-desired”) business processes.
- Support the design and delivery of workshops and training sessions on CRVS inequality analysis and business process improvement.
- Provide technical inputs during workshops and document discussions and outcomes.
- Support ongoing engagement and communication among CRVS stakeholders.
- Contribute to the preparation of draft and final reports.
- Support the organisation of a validation and dissemination workshop.
- Assist in the development of a consolidated CRVS strengthening roadmap.
- Organize Project inception workshop (1 day).
- Organize one state-level capacity building workshop (3 days).
- Organize Validation and dissemination workshop – CRVS inequality assessment (1 day and 0.5 day).
- Organize ‘As-Is’ workshop for CRVS Business Process Improvement (2 days).
- Organize ‘As-desired’ workshop for CRVS Business Process Improvement (2 days).
- Develop key recommendations and prioritization.
Required Experience
- At least three years of experience in providing technical assistance to strengthen national data systems (such as CRVS systems), including support to statistical production, administrative systems, or related institutional frameworks.
- At least 2 years of experience in official statistics, preferably with demonstrated experience in demographic analysis is desirable.
- Understanding of official statistics in the Asia-Pacific region.
- Working experience with a national statistical office in the Asia-Pacific region is desirable.
- Strong understanding of civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems and other data sources for estimating vital statistics.
- Demographic modelling and estimation skills, specifically in indirect techniques for demographic estimation.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Demography, Statistics, Social Sciences or related fields is required.
- Advanced degree in Demography, Statistics or related fields will be an advantage.
