Description: This training workshop will provide a platform for policymakers and technical officials to deepen their understanding of the nature and policy dimensions of illicit financial flows, drawing on evidence, estimates, and international good practices. It aims to strengthen the capacity of participants to formulate, implement, and evaluate policy measures tailored to their national contexts. The target audience for the workshop will include policymakers and senior officials from government institutions involved in governance, statistics, public finance, and anti-illicit flow efforts. Specific institutions such as the Banke of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit, National Statistics Office, National Customs Authority, Ministry of Finance, Customs and Tax Authorities will be invited.
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Description: The workshop targets national institutions involved in IFF measurement and policy development. Expected participants are mid-level experts from: Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU), Bangladesh Bank, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, Bangladesh Customs, Bangladesh National Bureau of Revenue and Ministry of Finance. The objective of the workshop is to strengthen the statistical capacity of national institutions to measure trade-related IFFs. It is funded under a DA15 project “Measuring and curbing illicit financial flows”. Please find the concept note here.Please click the link to get to Day 2 Files
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Description: Within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)gender equality is not only a standalone goal but also one of the crosscutting universal values that underpin the SDGs and a necessary precondition for achieving the goals of the 2030 development agenda. Good qualitytimelycomparableand disaggregated gender data provide the evidence needed to measure progress towards achieving the gender-related SDG goals and targets. The Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals – The Gender Snapshot 2024 produced by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) shows that while there are notable advancementsincluding reductions in povertynarrowing gender gaps in educationand progress toward legal reformsthere remains progress to be achieved across all indicatorswith only five years left to reach the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal deadline.
Description: Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG) is a classification defined by the United Nations Statistics Division and adapted to the IMF government finance statistics (GFS) reporting framework. COFOG enables trends in government expenditure by function (e.g., defense or education) or policy purposes to be examined over time. The value of this is that expenditure by functions of government of different countries can be compared. Participants will gain an understanding of how the ten functions of government as described in the GFSM 2014 are classified, how to categorize expenditure data to generate a functional split will be explained and how it should reconcile with the economic classification of expenditure data used in the GFS. Participants should feel comfortable to present and discuss relevant data of their own country. Practical exercises with participants working in random groups will feature throughout the course enabling them to be able to appropriately categorize expenditure data to the correct functional categories.
Description: The third CR8 meeting was jointly organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (UNICEF-ROSA), and hosted by the Office of the Registrar General, Local Government Division, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, from 6 to 8 June 2023 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The meeting brought together civil registrars in South Asia to discuss priority areas of common concern. The meeting was convened to review progress against the 2015-24 CRVS Decade and take stock of efforts to date to strengthen CRVS in South Asia, highlight the successes, good practices and lessons learned, and identify promising and effective initiatives and investments that need to be prioritized and/or resourced to scale up initiatives in the region. It also offered the opportunity to review the impact of COVID-19 on targets and identify areas for accelerated action. In particular, the meeting focused on: 1. Stocktaking of efforts, interventions, and investments to date to strengthen CRVS in South Asia, including regional and country-led initiatives and action plans. 2. Review of available data on birth, death and causes of death registration in South Asia, and the evidence base for effective programming, key research findings, gaps and priorities. 3. Identification of promising and innovative practices, success stories and lessons learned, as well as remaining gaps, challenges and unintended consequences of programming and policy level interventions. 4. Revisiting achievements in implementing the 2015-24 Asia Pacific CRVS Decade including the Regional Action Framework in South Asia and commitments in the Ministerial Declaration (2021) identifying priorities for future actions to align with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The meeting included group discussions on links to identity management and digitalization as well as update on the upcoming 2024 review of the CRVS Decade. Participants also benefited from a site visit to Bhakurta Union Pasishad, Savar, Dhaka to better understand the sub-district-level civil registration process at the local civil registration office and health clinic. Resources for the fourth CR8 meeting can be found here. MP4 files: Maldives presentation CR8 Nepal Birth Registration Video ESCAP_Nicola with video_CR8_Service linkages
