Accelerating Progress towards universal death registration in Ghana

This project will assess whether systematic monitoring of funeral and mortality-related announcements can identify deaths that may be missed by routine death-registration processes in Ghana. The study will collect, verify, deduplicate and, where authorized, link mortality-related information from approved public and institutional sources with Births and Deaths Registry records. The analysis will evaluate the yield, overlap, timeliness and completeness of information from different sources, as well as the feasibility of record linkage. The findings will inform strategies to strengthen death and registration in Ghana.