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Lunchtime Seminar Population Censuses in Post-Conflict Countries 25 February 2010, 1:50pm - 3:00 pm Conference Room 3 (TNLB) United Nations, New York

This seminar, organized in partnership with UNFPA, will discuss the specific challenges faced by countries emerging from conflicts in the preparation and the conduct of a Population and Housing Census. Three case studies will be presented: the census 2008 in Liberia, the preparation of the 2010 census in Iraq and the plan for the next census in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Seminar Programme/Agenda
Introduction	Rogelio Fernández Castilla, Executive Coordinator on Censuses (UNFPA)
Presentations	T. Edward Liberty, Director General, Liberia Institute for Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS) - Census Liberia 2008
	Mr Luay Shabaneh, UNFPA Chief Technical Advisor for the Iraq Census - The preparation of the census 2010 in Iraq
	Grégoire Kankwanda Ebulelang, Directeur, Institut National de la Statistique, Democratic Republic of the Congo - The preparation of the next census in Democratic Republic of Congo French English
Questions, answers and conclusions