A capacity building programme on the Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics (FDES) has been launched by the African Centre for Statistics (ACS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) jointly with the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment).
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 4, 2017 (ECA) – The African Centre for Statistics at the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the United Nations Development Programme, the World Wide Web Foundation and the Open Data for Development Network have launched the Africa Data Revolution Report 2016, a biennial report highlighting developments in African national data ecosystems.
Nouakchott, 27 February (ECA): The Economic Commission for Africa initiated today a technical assistance mission in support to the Mauritanian national statistics office (Office National de la Statistique, ONS). The mission will last until 10 March 2017.
The African Union Commission, in collaboration with the ECA the AfDB as well as other partners, is organizing the Fourth Conference of Ministers Responsible for Civil Registration from 7 to 8 December 2017 in Nouakchott, Mauritania, on the theme: ‘Accelerating a coordinated improvement of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) for implementation and monitoring development in Africa: Review of progress and the way forward’. The meeting will be preceded by an Expert Group Meeting from 4 to 6 December 2017
Dakar, Senegal, 20 December 2016 (IDEP) - The African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) recently hosted 16 statisticians from the national statistical offices of eight Francophone countries from West, Central and Eastern Africa in a workshop meant to hone their skills in population projections.
The regional workshop, which ran from November 28 to December 2, 2016, was organized by the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN/DESA) in partnership with ECA’s African Centre for Statistics (ACS) and IDEP.
Addis Ababa, 10 January 2016 (ECA) - The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) will this month run a post-World Data Forum workshop in Cape Town, South Africa, to discuss the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals indicator framework.
The Economic Commission for Africa and the United Nations Statistical Commission are jointly organizing the workshop on the implementation of the SDG indicator framework, which will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, on 19 and 20 January 2017. The workshop is organized as post event of the World Data Forum which will held from 15 to 18 January in Cape Town.