Information note for Arab Conference on a Transformative Agenda for Official Statistics, 5-7 April 2016 at SESRIC Headquarters in Ankara, Turkey
The Arab Conference on a Transformative Agenda for Official Statistics was organized and hosted by SESRIC in collaboration and partnership with the United Nations Economic Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), Islamic Development Bank (IDB), Statistical Centre for the Cooperation Council for the Arab Countries of the Gulf (GCC-STAT), and Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics (AITRS) on 5-7 April 2016 at SESRIC Headquarters in Ankara, Turkey.
Experts from the National Statistics Offices of MEDSTAT IV Countries, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia as well as Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan and Turkey attended to the Conference. The representatives of Eurostat and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) also participated in the Conference.
The Conference organized as a High-Level Forum of official statisticians to seek a broad consensus on the strategic framework for statistics. Moreover, it also aimed at formulating an adequate response to the increased demand for detailed and timely data to monitor progress on the goals and targets of the post-2015 development agenda.
The Conference covered five thematic areas of the Transformative Agenda that was identified by the Global Conference held on 15-16 January 2015 in New York and recognized by the UN Statistical Commission at its 46th Session. The thematic areas were:
- Coordination at and between the global and regional statistical systems;
- Communication and advocacy;
- Integrated statistical systems: data collection, processing an dissemination; through integrated statistical systems;
- Innovation and modernization through standards-based statistical business architecture; and
- Training and capacity-building.
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