Sunday 23 / November / 2025
Baghdad: The Sultanate of Oman is taking part in a two-day workshop held in Baghdad, Republic of Iraq, to unify visions and efforts about the system of national register and vital statistics.
The workshop takes the theme “Your Document, Your Identity, Your Future”.
Dr. Khalifa Abdullah Al Barwani, Chief Executive Officer of the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI), presented a working paper in which he reviewed the Sultanate of Oman’s experience in developing the national population register and systems of civil registration and vital statistics.
These systems, he said, emerge as leading regional experiences in the field of digital integration and building of reliable national databases.
The Sultanate of Oman’s participation in the workshop stems from its keenness to enhance regional cooperation and exchange experiences in the fields of statistics and digitization. It contributes to efforts aimed at developing national methodologies for vital statistics and building advanced data systems in a manner that improves government services and raises the efficiency of development planning.
The workshop is organized by the United Nations Population Fund in cooperation with the departments concerned in Iraq.
The workshop seeks to explore successful international experiences in developing civil registration systems, in addition to discussing the best practices in institutional coordination, data automation and the use of the same to support decision-making.
The workshop also looks into mechanisms for building a comprehensive and unified national register that integrates sectoral databases, enhances data protection, secures the privacy of citizens and prepares for a new stage of digital transition in Iraq.
