Description: This twenty-third meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas will be held from 28 to 29 August 2024, at the headquarters of ECLAC in Santiago, Chile.
Title in Spanish: Power of Data: Alianzas estratégicas para la generación de datos para el desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe
Organizer(s): ECLAC
Description: Evento paralelo de la Séptima reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible llevada a cabo en Santiago, del 15 al 18 de abril de 2024.
Description: The tenth Session of the United Nations Regional Committee on Global Geospatial Information Management for the Americas will take place in Santiago, from October 18 to 20, 2023.
Organizer(s): ECLAC UNSD UN Women INEGI Mexico Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres Mexico
Description: The twenty-first International Meeting of Information Specialists on Time Use and Unpaid Work will be held in Santiago, on September 25, 2023. Discussions will focus on the importance of time use measurements for the formulation and monitoring of policies to move towards the Care Society.
Description: El trigésimo primero período de sesiones del grupo de trabajo FAO-OEA/CIE-IICA sobre estadísticas agropecuarias para América Latina y el Caribe se realizará de forma virtual vía Zoom y presencial en el Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) de Chile. This meeting is a Statutory Body of FAO, organized regularly for more than 40 years by FAO in collaboration with regional institutions. Since 1994, these meetings have been part of the activities of the Working Group FAO-OEA/CIE-IICA on Agricultural and Livestock Statistics for Latin America and the Caribbean. Purpose The purpose of the meeting is to review the state of food and agricultural statistics in the Region, to advise Member Nations on the development and standardization of agricultural statistical services and to convene study groups or other Subsidiary Bodies of national experts required for this purpose. In particular, new technological and methodological advances for the improvement and development of the national programmes on Food and Agricultural Statistics will also be presented. Participants Senior Officers of the National Institutions from the Region responsible for food and agricultural statistics. International organisations concerned with the development of statistical system in the Region. Information Provisional agenda (also available in Spanish) Event page
Description: The 3rd International Forum on Migration Statistics (IFMS 2023) is organized by the United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Statistics and Population Divisions, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).<br><br>Calls to improve migration data to formulate evidence-based migration policies and inform public discourse have become increasingly strong. However, basic data on the stocks, flows, and characteristics of international migrants, as well as on the causes and impacts of international migration remain scarce or are not utilized to their full potential in many countries. The IFMS 2023 will provide a unique opportunity to discuss ways to improve the collection, analysis, and use of migration data worldwide, to fill existing migration data gaps and to better inform policy making.<br><br>As in the two previous fora, this event will mobilise expertise from a range of disciplines, such as statistics,economics, demography, sociology, geospatial science, and information technology. The IFMS 2023 will bring together producers and users of migration statistics from national and international statistical offices, other government agencies, international organizations, academia, civil society, and the private sector.<br><br>The Forum will be hosted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, from 24 to 26 January 2023 as an in-person and hybrid event.
Description: The United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management Section, Statistics Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, will jointly organize the expert meeting and regional workshop together with the United Nations Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information on the margins of the ninth session of the Regional Committee of United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for the Americas (UN-GGIM: Americas). The meeting of the Expert Group is a closed meeting, by invitation only, allows members of the Expert Group together with invited experts to review, consider and discuss its progress to-date, follow through on the guidance and decisions of the UN Statistical Commission and UN-GGIM. This meeting will enable the Expert Group to review and deliberate its future direction, including identifying how to advance the Global Statistical Geospatial Framework (GSGF); agree on its next steps to assist Member States in strengthening statistical geospatial integration and coordination towards the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; and establish coordination mechanisms to enable Member States to build resilient, agile, relevant, responsive and robust statistical and data systems adhering to the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics that fully integrate geospatial information. The Regional Workshop on Integrating Statistical and Geospatial Information for Sustainable Development with the theme 'The GSGF and Beyond' will provide a forum for deliberating key considerations for the integration of statistical and geospatial information, including promoting and raising awareness of the GSGF and the GSGF Implementation Guide, and examining how the GSGF can be practically operationalised by Member States to strengthen geo-statistical integration. The Regional Workshop seeks to share and exchange knowledge, information and experience; facilitate peer-to-peer engagement and learning; interact and consider guidance, recommendations, standards and approaches towards geo-statistical integration for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and other national priorities and global development agendas
Description: The Ninth Session of the United Nations Regional Committee for Global Geospatial Information Management for the Americas (UN-GGIM: Americas) was held in Santiago, from November 28 to 30, 2022.
Description: This twenty-first meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC took place under a hybrid format -face-to-face and virtual- on August 24 and 25, 2022. The Report and Agreements of the meeting are available on this page
Description: This is a side-event of Twenty-first meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC. The seminar will address the various statistical challenges related to the improvement of GDP measurement and the production of complementary indicators to account for economic, social and environmental development.
Description: The objective of these workshops is to promote the use of gender statistics for policymaking to ensure that no women and girls are left behind, in keeping with the commitments set out in the Regional Gender Agenda and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The focus of these workshops will be on mapping existing data and identifying gaps in the production of gender statistics, and providing recommendations regarding the production, development, systematisation and dissemination of statistical information and gender-sensitive indicators.
Description: At this meeting, the States members will examine the outcomes of the biennial programme of regional and international activities, 2018–2019, endorse the establishment of working groups for the period 2020–2021 and elect the new Executive Committee of the Conference for 2020–2021. THE REGISTRATION...
Description: This is an event related to the tenth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas and will be held at ECLAC headquarters. Organized jointly by ECLAC, the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
Title in Spanish: Seminario regional sobre desafíos e innovaciones en la medición de la pobreza y el seguimiento del Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible 1 (ODS-1)
Organizer(s): ECLAC DANE Colombia
Description: Este seminario regional tiene por objetivo generar un espacio para que los expertos de las Oficinas Nacionales de Estadística, de otros organismos nacionales y de las agencias internacionales implicadas en la medición del ODS 1, puedan intercambiar experiencias, debatir y la buscar consensos sobre las formas más adecuadas de afrontar los principales desafíos para la medición de la pobreza.
Description: Luego de tres días de ardua actividad concluyó el pasado 11 de septiembre en Santiago de Chile con la entrega de la Declaración de Santiago y excelentes resultados el XVI Encuentro CLARCIEV. Dos de los puntos centrales de la reunión se presentaron por parte de la Secretaría Ejecutiva CLARCIEV quien expuso el informe general al consejo y las mesas técnicas quienes expusieron los avances liderados por Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, México, Panamá y Colombia. Los Paneles tratados durante los tres días del encuentro fueron: 1. Ecosistemas de identidad civil para cerrar brechas en los servicios a los ciudadanos. 2. Identidad Digital y Carpetas Digitales Ciudadanas, el rol de los registros civiles y oficinas de identificación. 3. El rol de América Latina y el Caribe para impulsar una Buena Identificación “Good ID”. 4. Estándares internacionales abiertos en los sistemas de registro civil e identificación. 5. Identificación, registro y determinación de la condición de refugiado en el contexto de movimientos mixtos a gran escala: el rol de las oficinas de registro civil. 6. Apatridia, Inscripción Tardía de Nacimientos y Otorgamiento de Documentos de Identidad. 7. Fraude relacionado con la identidad: uso de la biometría y autenticación de identidad en contextos de alta movilidad humana. 8. Normas internas sobre protección de datos y sus efectos en contextos de intercambio de datos con otros países.
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Description: This first international workshop seeks to contribute to the strengthening of nationally integrated geospatial information management towards the producing, disseminating and applying of geospatial information for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Description: In this informative meeting, it will discuss, among other, the presentation a draft concept note of a potential project on climate change and disasters indicators production.
Description: The meeting is the first in the series of regional workshop planned to present the Operational Guidelines of the WCA 2020 to the FAO member countries in different parts of the world.
Title in Spanish: Información geoespacial como soporte a la agenda 2030, perspectivas de actores gubernamentales y no gubernamentales
Organizer(s): ECLAC Fundación GeoCensos
Description: Este taller es un evento paralelo de la tercera reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible - 2019. Es organizado por la División de Estadísticas de la CEPAL y la Fundación Geocensos.
Description: At this meeting will analyze from different perspectives the strategic challenges and priorities for the region’s statistical development. These priority areas and the expected outcomes will serve to guide the preparation of the Working Groups’ programs of activities for the 2020-2021 period.
