Description: The London Group on Environmental Accounting is a city group created in 1993 to allow practitioners to share their experience of developing and implementing environmental accounts. Members of this informal group of experts come primarily from national statistical agencies but also international organizations. The London Group generally meets annually, and the meetings provide a forum for review, comparison and discussion of work underway by participants towards development of environmental accounts. In light of the global pandemic, the Twenty-seventh Meeting of the London Group will be held virtually on 27-30 September 2021 and 4 October 2021.
Source: IOM GMDAC (Data extracted on: 31 May 2022 )
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Organizer(s): IOM EU
Description: The workshop "Household surveys and international migration data: Using, improving and creating efficient migration data collection tools" will be conducted in a hybrid manner and will cater for in-person and virtual participation. Participants will be invited from the government departments in the Southern Africa Member States. The invitation will be shared with a broader statistical audience who may want to participate virtually and benefit from the discussions.
Organizer(s): UNSD ECA UNEP World Bank Gaborone Declaration for Sustainability in Africa Statistics South Africa
Description: The Regional Training Workshop on the SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounting for countries in Africa is jointly organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), Statistics South Africa, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Gaborone Declaration for Sustainability in Africa (GDSA), and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). The Training Workshop will be held in Pretoria, South Africa, from 28 to 31 October 2019, and is organized as part of the project “Natural Capital Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services” funded by the European Union, and implemented by UNSD, UNEP and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
Description: The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and Statistics South Africa is organizing a Regional Thematic Conference on managing a statistical organization in times of change. The conference is scheduled to take place from 7 to 9 October 2019 at the premises of Statistics South Africa in Pretoria, South Africa. This first Thematic Conference in Africa is part of a series of regional conferences to understand and prioritise the recent institutional, organizational and technical developments for the production of official statistics and indicators for the monitoring of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and related regional and national development plans.
