February 2021 is celebrated as the “Civil Registration Month” anchored on the theme “Strengthening Civil Registration and Vital Statistics’ Digital Information:  The Ways to Manage the New Normal”.  This is in consonance with the global advocacy of getting everyone registered and of promoting awareness on the importance of civil registration in the lives of every Filipino.  Civil Registration is given emphasis because it is the permanent, continuous and compulsory recording of the civil status of a person and its modifications thereof.  Further, deals with the identity of a person.   Thus, it is pursuant to Proclamation No 682 by then President Corazon C. Aquino on January 19, 1991, declaring February of every year as Civil Registration Month.

This year’s celebration is the 31st Civil Registration Month and is a month-long celebration and highlighted by different and various activities in the province together with the Local Civil Registry Offices (LCROs).

The four-week celebration in the province of Siquijor was formally opened on 1 February 2021, Monday with a mini program after the Flag Raising Ceremony with a Q and A on Civil Registration and swaying to the tune of the CRVS jingle.  This was participated in by PSA regular and COSW staff.

Below were the activities undertaken for the four-week celebration amidst this pandemic:

Meanwhile, on 26 February 2021, the celebration was capped off with the LCRO Awarding for the year 2018 and 2019 with LCRO of Siquijor, Siquijor as one of the national awardees; Data Dissemination Forum attended and participated by the Municipal Civil Registrars together with their staff, PSA personnel (regular/contractuals/ statistical researchers) and the Awarding Ceremony for the Calligraphy Contest for this year’s theme.

The month-long celebration was successful with the collaborative effort and cooperation of everyone.

(SGD.) AURELIA M. CANDA
Chief Statistical Specialist