Globally, 250 million people are on the move and one-third of them are trapped in conflict situations as migrants, refugees, or asylum seekers. Despite these hardships, life in conflict, emergency, and fragile situations continues — people are born, they marry, divorce, and die. Particularly in these contexts, civil registration and identification are vitally important. The hazards faced by people in conflict, emergency, and fragile contexts, including during natural disasters, could weaken or destroy entire civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems and archives, thereby preventing people from receiving the crucial services they rely on, from humanitarian aid to education and job training. Compounding this, CRVS systems are often last on policymakers' list of priorities, which puts the information and rights of entire generations at risk. Even in less drastic circumstances, records are at risk of disappearing in the event of a natural disaster, making it difficult to account for deaths and mitigate the consequences of natural disasters. In all these situations, it is critical that governments have robust disaster risk reduction plans in place to protect records. Protecting CRVS systems must be part of each country's climate change mitigation and adaptation plans to ensure that natural disasters do not leave multiple generations without access to rights and services. With the COVID-19 pandemic, registration and data in real time are becoming more important than ever to correctly track and record the causes of death. This project aims to contribute to strengthening civil registration in conflict, emergency, and fragile settings by documenting good practices in this area. This will be done by providing thought leadership, building the capacity of civil registrars and stakeholders in an increasingly fragile world, and contributing to transform the practice in such contexts. To advance knowledge and dialogue, this project will develop a compendium of practices on CRVS in conflict, emergency, and fragile settings, build capacity around the compendium, and disseminate findings in various global forums.