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Last Updated: Feb 6, 2017 - 2:32:04 PM |
 The
Organization of American States (OAS) has completed a project designed
to facilitate birth registration and provide uniform vital statistics in
Saint Lucia, as part of the organization’s Universal Civil Identity
Program in the Americas (PUICA).
The OAS purchased equipment, developed software, and trained a
six-member team to scan and input information from 11,050 registry books
containing 258,833 pages of birth, death, marriage and baptism
certificates. PUICA provided the remuneration of the team for a six
month period which concluded on June 7, 2013.
During the project, the team scanned 70% of birth records, 56%
of death records, 82% of marriage records, and 44% of baptism books. The
focus of the project in Saint Lucia was to capture the images in the
Civil Registry records, so that the new computer application being
developed by the Government of Saint Lucia would be able to incorporate
these images.
In addition to financing registry personnel for six months, the
OAS project purchased project equipment – one Book-Drive scanner, two
servers, six computer workstations, network equipment and other computer
hardware components. This facilitated the scanning of the vital records
maintained in ledgers at the Office of the Registrar of Civil Status,
and their uploading to a central database.
The assistance to Saint Lucia was provided by the OAS Department
for Effective Public Management (OAS/DEPM), with funding from the
Governments of Chile, Canada, Luxembourg and Korea, under the Caribbean
Civil Registry and Identity System (CCRIS) of the OAS. The objective of
the CCRIS is to facilitate birth registration, and to provide uniform
vital statistics across the Eastern Caribbean.
The OAS/DEPM is facilitating the implementation of CCRIS in six
CARICOM member states of the OAS - Antigua & Barbuda, Belize,
Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org
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