Organizer(s): SPC ESCAP Pacific Civil Registrars Network Pacific Health Information Network
Description: The Brisbane Accord Group (BAG) is a consortium of agencies with a principal aim of coordinating partner support and maximizing investments made towards supporting the improvement of civil registration and vital statistics systems in Pacific Island countries and territories. Activities of BAG are guided by the Pacific Vital Statistics Action Plan (PVSAP), which sits under the Ten-Year Pacific Statistics Strategy (TYPSS) 2011 - 2020. This Plan has been recently succeeded by the Strategic Framework for Pacific Statistics 2022-2030 (TYPSS II). A regional meeting of the BAG members is being organised by the Pacific Community (SPC), in collaboration with the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Pacific Civil Registrars Network (PCRN), Pacific Health Information Network (PHIN), and other partners. The meeting will be held in Suva, Fiji, on 23-24 March 2023. It will follow the meeting of the PCRN on 20-22 March 2023, also in Suva, and precede the meeting of the PHIN on 28-30 March 2023 in Nadi, Fiji. The main objectives of the BAG meeting are to: Provide an update on the activities undertaken by BAG partners to support Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) under the Pacific Vital Statistics Action Plan (PVSAP) Review and document progress against commitments made by PICTs towards the Regional Action Framework (RAF) for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Asia and the Pacific in line with the Asia and Pacific Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Decade (2015–2024) Identify needs and areas that require additional support Agree on the next phase of implementation of the PVSAP in line with the Strategic Framework for the Development of Pacific Statistics 2022-2030 (TYPSS II)
Description: ESCAP Pacific Office is hosting a training workshop for representatives from Pacific Island countries (including Timor Leste) during the week, 13-17 August, 2018. The Sub-Regional Training Course is on Sampling Methods for Producing Core Data Items for Agricultural and Rural Statistics, organised by the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP), in collaboration with ESCAP Pacific Office and FAO, whom are both providing the workshop facilitators. The workshop is a component of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics which is a multi-partner initiative tasked to assist countries to improve agricultural and rural statistics. It also provides a framework for national and international statistical systems to produce and apply the basic data and information needed to guide policy on rural development and sustainable agricultural production. By identifying country-specific minimum core data and statistics, it aims to significantly increase the availability and quality of agricultural and rural statistics. Countries represented at the workshop include Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga and Timor Leste. They are represented by staff from their National Statistics Office and Ministry of Agriculture, who will be learning about a range of sampling strategies available for collecting agriculture/fisheries/aquaculture data, through lectures, exercises and sharing of experiences. Concept note Programme
