| Aug-2024 | Eman Aboaldahab Elsayed Ali | The Nigerian Statistical Association’s Journey to Accreditation
The Chartered Institute of Statisticians of Nigeria (CISON) is the successor body to the Nigerian Statistical Association (NSA). The NSA was established in 1976 as a non-profit making professional body comprising of statisticians, economists, planners, econometricians, demographers, analysts and corporate organizations with interest in statistics. The Association was committed to the ... read more
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| May-2023 | ECA | Committee of Experts of the Conference the fifty-fifth session of the Commission “Fostering recovery and transformation in Africa to reduce inequalities and vulnerabilities”
During the 55th Session of the Committee of Experts meeting in Addis Ababa, the Director of the Africa Center for Statistics (ACS) of the Economic Commission for Africa, Mr. Oliver Chinganya presented the eighth session report of the Statistical Commission for Africa. The eighth session of the Statistical Commission for Africa was held in 2022 under the theme “Modernizing the data ecosystem in Africa to support regional integration”. The meeting reviewed the current trends and discussed ... read more
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| Apr-2023 | ECA | Regional Training on Agricultural Statistics in Cote d'ivoire, Abidjan
Building on the recognized successes achieved during the first phase, the 2nd round of Global Strategy for Improving Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS) in Africa (2021-2023) has begun in early 2021 for an initial duration of three years, co-funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the European Union, ... read more
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| Feb-2023 | ECA | THE REGIONAL SEMINAR ON THE AFRICA INFORMATION HIGHWAY
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) hosted the Regional Seminar on the African Information Highway (AIH) initiative from February 6 to 10, 2023, in the ECA conference hall in Addis Ababa. This seminar was held by the African Development Bank (AfDB) in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).... read more
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| 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 | 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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