| May-2022 | Hamida Sheel | Accelerating data and statistics production and use in Africa for the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals
Statistics is an important pillar in our society, but its importance only became more apparent to the larger society during the COVID-19 crisis. The pandemic has also highlighted a number of issues within national statistics offices and national statistics systems. ...read more
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| Apr-2022 | Sassire Napo | Youth and technological innovation: a crucial combination for the success of the SDGs in Africa
By Sassire Napo,
Young African statistician,
Statistician at the African Legal Support Facility, African Development Bank (AfDB)
From March 3 to 5, 2022, I had the great honor, as a young African statistician, to participate in the eighth session of the African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development in Kigali. This participation, at the invitation of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) as part of the Takwimu program for young African statisticians, was a great opportunity...read more
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| Apr-2022 | ECA | STATISTICIAN GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION, DR SIMON HARRY, PASSES ON
The Board, management and staff of National Bureau of Statistics(NBS), with a deep sense of loss, announce the passing on of the Statistician General of the Federation and Chief Executive Officer of NBS, Dr. Simon Harry, in the early hours of today, Wednesday, April 13th 2022 after a brief illness...read more
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| Feb-2022 | Constantin Rukataza | A young statistician’s perspective on CRVS after the EGM of African Registrar Generals last November.
Mr. Constantin Rukataza, one of the young statisticians who participated in the Experts Group Meeting of African Registrar Generals has shared his experience with us: ...read more
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| Feb-2022 | ECA | Young African Statisticians are now engaged in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Programme in Africa
The Experts Group Meeting on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) held from 23 to 26 November 2021 in Kigali, Rwanda concluded with a recommendation that countries would make deliberate efforts to engage youth in country level work on CRVS, as a strategic approach to sustainable capacity building... read more
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| Feb-2022 | ECA | Interview with a former prominent chief statistician – Mr. Musaemura Guest Charumbira, former Botswana's Government Statistician and Chair of the UN Statistical Commission
Covid-19 has brought further complications for statistical operations. There is need for innovations. For those countries carrying out a census of population and housing this year or soon, we can only wish them good luck. It will be a complicated process... read more
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| Feb-2022 | ECA | African Centre for Statistics is adapting after key stakeholders had their say in its first stakeholder survey.
African Centre for Statistics (ACS) invited National Statistical Offices and other key stakeholders to take part in its first stakeholders survey earlier this year, to evaluate some of its activities and improve ways of doing business… read more
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| Feb-2022 | ECA | Interview with a former prominent chief statistician – Dr. Pali Lehohla, former Statistician General of South Africa and Chair of the UN Statistical Commission
As from 2016, the engine of success had started to misfire, and the challenges mounted. The last four years have been rather disappointing...All these forces converged and connived against the ten-year bull run of statistics in Africa. These can be still recovered because of the institutionalisation pillars in the SHaSA and the African Statistics Charter as well as the statistics centres in the three pan African institutions... read more
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| Dec-2021 | ECA | ECA partners with the Federal government of Somalia in the launch of a CRVS Improvement Programme at a workshop held on 29 November to 3 December 2021 in Nairobi, Kenya
At a workshop held in Nairobi, Kenya on 29th November to 30th December 2021, the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in partnership with the Federal government of the Republic of Somalia launched a civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system Improvement programme, aimed to provide systematic support to the government in developing a universal, holistic and well-functioning CRVS system ... read more
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| Dec-2021 | ECA | Experts Group Meeting of African Registrar Generals - November 2021
Recognizing the multi-sectoral importance of CRVS systems, a forum of African Registrar Generals was created to deliberate on how to make strategic changes to take the regional CRVS improvement initiative to achieve the international targets ....read more
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