Management must empower its people in the deepest sense and remove the barriers and obstacles that hinder the success of attainment of its goals. This is the management principle that triggered the National Statistics Office – Region 10 (NSO –R10) to launch in 1992 the Barangay Civil Registration System (BCRS) as a flagship project after it had conducted a thorough examination and assessment why it rated low in civil registration in the national evaluation of the 1992 Field Awards. It should be noted that the responsibility for the country’s civil registration system rests with the National Statistics Office (NSO) by virtue of P.D. No. 418 and the Civil Registry Law (Act No. 3753). Despite the legal bases that have boosted compulsory registration of vital events, statistics show significant levels of under registration and delayed registration which can be traced back to the following problems: lack of awareness on the importance of civil registration, difficulty of reaching the city or town proper considering the topographical features consisting of valleys, mountains and rivers aggravated by expenses in transportation, language barriers due to the presence of tribal groups, peace and order situation and varying cultural beliefs and practices. To arrest such problems, NSO -R10 decided to put every cog and wheel to work efficiently within and even outside the organization and this resulted to a strategic maneuvering of bringing civil registration closer to the barangay through the Barangay Civil Registration System (BCRS). The BCRS conceptualized to make the barangay secretaries aggressively involved in providing assistance in filling up forms, most particularly the illiterates and those with language barriers. It also tasks them to visit those households which failed to report newly born babies for registration. The BRCS empowers barangay chairmen to submit the accomplished forms to MCRs who examine the forms before recording them to the civil register during the monthly meetings of the association of barangay council. Through the inception of the BRCS, civil registration has been made easier and convenient for the registrants. It has improved both level of registration and quality of data. BCRS is now replicated in other provinces after piloting it in the provinces of Bukidnon and Agusan del Sur. After almost a decade of implementation, it was presented in international forum as one of the civilregistration best practices in the Philippines