Result of ServiceIn this connection, ESCAP is seeking a consultant to support the NSO of Mongolia, the GASR and the Mongolia Ministry of Health to assess inequalities in CRVS in Mongolia as well as business process improvements, in close collaboration with all relevant CRVS stakeholders. Where relevant, the Health Development Centre may also be engaged as a key stakeholder to ensure full institutional alignment across the health and CRVS systems. This work will help identify population groups with lower registration rates and quantify the magnitude of gaps relative to the rest of the population. To provide an objective overview of the situation, triangulation across the best available data sources is required to estimate the completeness of birth and death registration, which may require several options to be explored. For example, civil registration and other national administrative data should be used in the first instance to assess completeness, complemented as needed by census data and household surveys (such as the Social Indicators Sample Survey (SISS)), to provide additional insights into progress and remaining gaps in universal registration. However, irrespective of the data source used, the most marginalized groups are often still excluded, particularly those residing outside of conventional households or in geographic areas that are not fully enumerated. Analysis of multiple data sources, including through indirect demographic methods to estimate total births and deaths, will therefore be important to assess completeness and identify inequalities. CRVS Business Process Improvement (BPI), uses a structured and participatory approach, guided by the updated CRVS Systems Improvement Framework, to analyse and redesign CRVS workflows across institutions. A core tool is business process mapping, which documents the current (“as-is”) civil registration processes and helps stakeholders identify bottlenecks, duplication and service barriers, before designing streamlined “as-desired” processes. BPI focuses on simplifying and standardising end‑to‑end processes for the registration of births, deaths, and other life events. BPI aligns people, policies, processes, and digital solutions to reduce delays, duplication, and inefficiencies. It supports strengthened interoperability and improved data quality by clarifying institutional roles and responsibilities, strengthening governance arrangements and reinforcing accountability across the CRVS system. Ultimately, the assessment, analysis and redesign of CRVS business processes, aims to enable more timely and complete registration, and the production of accurate and reliable vital statistics to support service delivery and evidence‑based decision‑making. As part of the BPI, the assessment will include a review of the infrastructure and technological environment supporting CRVS business processes, including an evaluation of existing digital systems, interoperability arrangements, data flows, and current system capabilities and constraints. In light of the above, ESCAP is seeking to hire a consultant to support the NSO and relevant stakeholders to identify and assess secondary data sources available for an inequality assessment; identify capacity gaps within the national statistical system related to demographic estimation and analytical methods; and support the NSO to conduct an inequality assessment and prepare the inequality assessment report, including analysis on gender-related disparities, interpretation of findings and drafting of the full report for review and validation by national stakeholders. Under the supervision of ESCAP and in close coordination with the National Statistics Office of Mongolia (NSOM) and other CRVS stakeholders, the consultant will undertake the following tasks. Inception and scoping • Conduct a desk review of relevant legislation, strategies, standard operating procedures, previous assessments, and CRVS-related documentation; • Support the establishment and functioning of a national CRVS Core Team, including coordination across institutions; • Contribute to the design and delivery of a national inception workshop to confirm scope, methodology, roles, and workplan; • Prepare a short inception note summarising priorities, data sources, and methodological approaches. CRVS inequality assessment • Identify and map available data sources relevant for assessing CRVS inequalities (CRVS data, census, surveys, administrative sources); • Conduct quantitative analysis of birth and death registration completeness and disparities by sex, age, location, and other characteristics where data permit, together with NSOM staff; • Apply indirect demographic methods, where appropriate, to assess under-registration and population coverage gaps; • Identify structural, administrative, and socio-cultural factors contributing to observed inequalities in collaboration with national stakeholders; • Prepare draft analytical sections for the CRVS inequality assessment report, including gender-related dimensions. Business process mapping and improvement • Support consultations with national and subnational stakeholders (including field visits where necessary) to document “as-is” CRVS business processes for birth and death registration, and vital statistics production; • Develop detailed process maps, in line with the CRVS Systems Improvement Framework; • Identify bottlenecks, redundancies, delays, and coordination issues across institutions and administrative levels; • Support the organisation and facilitation of BPI consultation workshops to validate findings and discuss process redesign options; • Contribute to the development of redesigned (“as-desired”) business processes, including descriptions and maps,, and practical recommendations for CRVS system improvement, in collaboration with national stakeholders. • Assess the adequacy of the existing infrastructure and technological environment supporting CRVS business processes, including system functionality, interoperability, and operational readiness; Capacity building and stakeholder engagement • Support the design and delivery of national workshops and training sessions on CRVS inequality analysis and business process improvement, in collaboration with ESCAP and partners; • Provide technical inputs during workshops and document discussions and outcomes; • Support ongoing engagement and communication among CRVS stakeholders throughout the project period. Reporting and synthesis • Contribute to the preparation of draft and final reports, integrating findings from the inequality assessment and business process mapping; • Ensure the final report includes a dedicated subsection summarising relevant international best practices and lessons learned from CRVS inequality assessments and business process improvement initiatives in other countries, with a focus on applicability to the Mongolian context; • Support the organisation of a national validation and dissemination workshop; • Assist in the development of a consolidated CRVS strengthening roadmap outlining short-, medium-, and long-term actions. The consultant will also be responsible for organizing: 1. Project inception workshop (1-2 days) The workshop will invite all relevant national CRVS stakeholders and partner agencies. The NSOM will lead the brief on the project concept, outline roles and responsibilities of stakeholders and clarify the overall approach and modalities for implementation. Given the breadth of the project, this workshop may be divided into separate sessions for technical-level and high-level participants. 2. One national capacity building workshop to support the assessment of CRVS inequalities (3-4 days) Focus area for the workshop to be identified based on national capacity needs to support implementation of a CRVS inequality assessment. Potential topics include techniques to assess registration completeness by population subgroup; direct and indirect demographic estimation methods (e.g., death distribution methods, reverse survival methods, life table analysis, Brass and other indirect methods using survey/census data); and methodologies and tools to assess the completeness and quality of cause-of-death. Final topics will be determined in consultation with the NSOM, based on the agreed priorities and capacity needs. 3. One BPI consultation and analysis workshops (5 days) This workshop will focus on: • Verification and validation of “as-is” CRVS business process descriptions • Analysis of current civil registration processes to identify bottlenecks and performance issues • Redesigning civil registration processes and developing “as-desired” workflows for improvement 4. National closing and validation workshop (2-3 days) To disseminate, discuss and validate the results of the inequality assessment and their policy implications, with active engagement of policymakers and other relevant stakeholders. Given the breadth of the project, this workshop may be divided into technical level and high-level participants CRVS inequality assessments and business process improvement should be an iterative and collaborative process. Although the NSOM will take the lead in the implementation of the project at the national level, extensive support will be provided by the ESCAP Statistics Division, an international expert and a national consultant engaged by ESCAP under the project. Work LocationRemotely and/or Mongolia Expected duration1 Mar - 30 Dec 2026 Duties and ResponsibilitiesA well-functioning civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system helps ensure that every person has a legal identity, facilitating access to the benefits and protections of the State. It is also the preferred data source for many demographic statistics with numerous indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) directly related to mortality and fertility while others rely on population data as the denominator. To know who is being left behind, the relevant disaggregated population data needs to be available. Many countries experience lower civil registration completeness rates among certain marginalized and hard-to-reach population groups or geographic areas. Despite these inequalities and their negative impact, this problem often remains a blind spot. The groups affected remain largely invisible if the matter is not specifically investigated. In Asia-Pacific, the lack of information on hard-to-reach and marginalized groups, and their exclusion, hinders countries from developing efficient policies. Inequality assessments are therefore critical to ensure full inclusion, and these disparities need to be specifically and thoroughly examined. To ensure progress in registration is truly universal and fully inclusive, the Ministerial declaration to “Get Every One in The Picture” in Asia and the Pacific recognized the need to address disparities in civil registration completeness and coverage of these groups. Hence, the Regional Action Framework (RAF) for the Asia-Pacific CRVS Decade 2015-2024 (ESCAP resolution 71/14) calls upon countries to assess any CRVS-related inequalities experienced by population subgroups. Doing so is an essential step to getting everyone in the picture. This step is also key to the realization of the 2030 Agenda in terms of both data and social protection. It is also critical from a gender perspective as it is essential to know how and why there are differences in civil registration by sex and any gender-related barriers to registration, especially for different sub-groups in the population. Against this backdrop, ESCAP and Bloomberg Philanthropies Data 4 Health initiative have collaborated and implemented the project entitled “Getting everyone in the picture: strengthening civil registration and vital statistics systems in Asia and the Pacific”. The work supports implementation of the Regional Action Framework on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific and the further commitments made in the Ministerial Declaration on Building a More Resilient Future with Inclusive Civil Registration and Vital Statistic and the Ministerial Declaration on a Decade of Action for Inclusive and Resilient Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Asia and the Pacific from 2025. Within its regional mandate, ESCAP also supports CRVS strengthening through business process improvement (BPI), guided by the CRVS Systems Improvement Framework. This includes supporting national CRVS stakeholders to map existing processes, identify bottlenecks from both service-provider and client perspectives, and support the design of streamlined “as-desired” processes aligned with national priorities for legislative reform, digital transformation and interoperability. Mongolia has made substantial progress in strengthening its CRVS system, including through investments in digitalisation and strong inter-agency coordination. Nonetheless, challenges remain, including operational inefficiencies, inconsistencies across data sources, variable data quality, and persistent inequalities in registration outcomes for specific population groups and geographic areas. In response, ESCAP, in collaboration with national counterparts and UNFPA, will implement an integrated package of support combining: • CRVS inequality assessment (IA) to identify population groups that are under-registered or inconsistently captured; and • Business process improvement (BPI) to map, analyse, and redesign CRVS workflows to improve system performance, efficiency, and inclusiveness. Qualifications/special skillsBachelor’s degree in Demography, Statistics or related fields is required. Advanced degree in Demography, Statistics or related fields will be an advantage. At least 5 years of experience in official statistics or demography, with demonstrated experience related to CRVS systems considered a strong advantage - Understanding of official statistics in the Asia-Pacific region - Working experience with a national statistical office in the Asia-Pacific region is desirable LanguagesFluency in English and Mongolian, including written and oral is required. Additional InformationNot available. No FeeTHE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.