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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
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
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
Innovative solutions for increasing statistical literacy of the general public - World Data Forum
During the 2021 World Data Forum (WDF), on the 6th of October 2021 in Bern, Switzerland, UNITAR, UN Statistics Division (UNSD) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) organized, in collaboration with the Global Network of Institutions for Statistical Training (GIST), organized a hybrid session “Statistics and Data Smart: Innovative solutions for increasing statistical literacy of the general public”... read more
Ninth meeting of the Forum on African Statistical Development
The final Communiqué is released
The 9th meeting of the Forum on African Statistical Development (FASDev) took place on 14 December 2020 under the theme “Harnessing the impact of the COVID-19 crisis to accelerate the transformation and modernization of national statistical systems in Africa”...read more
Online Statistical Leadership Training Programme for the African Statistical System
The programme aims to equip leaders of African National Statistical Offices with the skills required to lead their organisations on a programme of statistical modernisation...read more
E-training Webinar on Alternative Techniques for CPI Data Collection
The African Centre for Statistics (ACS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in collaboration with the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee-France)...read more
Guidelines for Developing Statistical Capacity
A Roadmap for Capacity Development 4.0 - January 2020
National statistics are an essential component of policy making. They provide the evidence required to improve the lives of citizens, monitor results and hold governments and other actors accountable...read more
From physical planning to virtual implementation in Mozambique
During the past two years, SSB and the Mozambique National Institute of Statistics (INE) have cooperated to map and plan for a statistical component under the Oil for Development programme in Mozambique...read more
Introducing NADABAS – a National Account Database System – in Ghana
Ghana has been searching for a tool to organise and compile their national accounts for a while. During 2019 staff from the Ghana Statistical Service was introduced to and given a demonstration of NADABAS...read more