Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 13 Jul 2026 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP SPC
Description: Domestic production in the Pacific is limited by the lack of resources and technologiesgeographic isolationhigh costsand insufficient economies of scale. As suchPacific economies are heavily reliant on international trade to supply their basic commodities and more complex machineryand to expand their market base. International merchandise trade statistics (IMTS) is crucial to monitor and analyze trade flowsproduction and consumption. Timely and high-quality trade statistics will better guide the development of trade and economic policies and infrastructure planning. As trade datasets grow in volume and complexitymanual data cleaningvalidationand compilation could be slowprone to errorlack an audit trailand not methodologically repeatable. Automating parts of the statistical production process offers reproducibility and reduces human errorstandardizes methods across reporting cycles and across countriesand allows small teams to focus on processes that need more careful manual deliberation (such as data cleaning procedures and analysis).This hybrid workshoporganized by the Pacific Community (SPC) and United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP)aims to increase capacities of national statistical systems to compile international merchandise trade statistics by automating parts of their workflow process.
Description: From 5–7 August, the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) under the DATAS initiative, in collaboration with the Fiji Bureau of Statistics (FBOS), held a national workshop in Suva to support the implementation of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS). The workshop brought together key national crime and justice institutions to develop a National Offence Code, strengthen statistical capacity, and discuss a roadmap for ICCS implementation. The initiative aims to improve the production of harmonized crime and criminal justice statistics to support evidence-based policymaking in Fiji.
Description: Background Since 2024, the Fiji Bureau of Statistics (FBoS) has been strengthening national capacity to produce and use climate change-related statistics, with support from the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). This work has taken a whole-of-government approach to identifying and producing a priority set of nationally relevant, multidimensional climate change-related statistics. ESCAP has supported FBoS in areas including the compilation of indicators, development of metadata, quality assurance, stakeholder engagement, and supporting the preparation of the Bureau’s first experimental climate change statistics release, published on 21 August 2025. Alongside this, ESCAP, together with UN Women, has supported FBoS in the production of statistics and indicators that may help understand the gender-climate change nexus and inform related policies, which was published in a data brief in October 2025. ESCAP and FBoS recently agreed to continue this collaboration on strengthening national capacity to produce quality climate change-related statistics over the next three years, from September 2025 to April 2028, through a new project which will build on these achievements. This project aims to: Further enhance the production and dissemination of nationally relevant and multidimensional climate change-related statistics, guided by relevant international and regional statistical guidelines and standards. Demonstrate the utility of the produced statistics to support issue-driven national climate action and relevant reporting requirements. Promote peer-learning and cross-fertilisation of knowledge and experiences to the production and use of climate change-related statistics across project countries. Develop knowledge resources to support continued production and use cases of climate change-related statistics in a sustainable manner. To initiate the next phase of this partnership, ESCAP and FBoS are co-organising a national multistakeholder consultative workshop on Advancing Climate Change-related Statistics in Fiji on 28-29 October 2025, as part of a broader technical support mission. The workshop will serve to reconfirm priority multidimensional climate change-related statistics, promote mutual understanding and collaboration between data producers and users, and support the development of an updated implementation plan for climate change statistics in Fiji. , Aims and Objectives The objectives of the mission and workshop are to: Review and assess feedback on Fiji’s first climate change-related statistics release, as well as the data brief related to measuring the gender-climate change nexus; Reconfirm and refine Fiji’s national priorities for multidimensional climate change-related statistics development through an exploration of user needs and expected uses and applications; Support technical planning for the next phase of priority indicator production, ensuring alignment with national policy needs, including the KPIs for the National Development Plan, and ongoing statistical modernisation efforts; Explore opportunities for enhanced dissemination strategies for the priority climate change-related statistics to help maximise value to and uptake by potential users. Identify key stakeholders who will be part of the technical working group for national project implementation.
Description: A two-day workshop (14-15 October) will be convened with regional partners and civil society organisations (CSOs) to validate findings from the desk review and stakeholder interviews, and to deepen dialogue on cross-cutting issues in Fiji’s CRVS system. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together government representatives, technical partners, development agencies, and CSOs to discuss the preliminary gap analysis and explore reform options before the Recommendations Report is finalised. Sessions will include: Presentations on preliminary findings from the desk review and toolkit analysis.Group discussions on equity, access, and digitalisation challenges.CSO-led dialogue on barriers faced by vulnerable populations in accessing CRVS services.Question-and-answer sessions to clarify issues and strengthen alignment.By the conclusion of the workshop, participants will have contributed to refining the key legal and regulatory priorities for reform, providing critical input that will feed into the drafting of the Recommendations Report due at the end of October.Concept note and agenda could be found at this link.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 08 Dec 2025 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP ESCAP SIAP SPC UNFPA UNSD
Description: The population and housing census is the most comprehensive source of data on the counts and characteristics of a country's populationforming the foundation of national statistical systems. Censuses provide essential socialeconomicand demographic informationserving as baseline evidence for planningdevelopingimplementingand monitoring policies across various sectors and diverse user needsincluding research. They are also a critical source of population data for numerous Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicatorsaiding in the monitoring of national progress towards achieving related targets.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP SPC
Description: The transition from paper and pencil interviewing (PAPI) to computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) has been one of the key hallmarks of national statistical offices’ (NSO) efforts to adopt efficient and cost-effective new technologies and modernize the collection and production of official statistics. CAPI combines the advantages of face-toface interviewing with the efficiency and accuracy of computer technology and brings several efficiencies including(i) improving data qualityreducing the time lag between data collection and data analysis; (ii) increasing the speed of data turnaround and release; and (iii) enabling significant savings in fieldwork and data processing costs.Like other subregionsthe Pacific Islands countries and territories havesince 2010embraced the transition to CAPI using Survey Solutions. While there has been significant investment in the new technology as well as national level support and training from the Pacific Community (SPC) for the conduct of surveys and censuseshigh staff turnover and capability gaps in the Pacific subregion necessitate continuous training to further strengthen existing capacity. Furthermorethe report of the 2023 capacity needs assessment conducted by SPC reveals a skills gap of 65% in data collection and places demand for training in collection applications (Survey Solutions) as one of the highest priorities for NSOs. This finding corroborated with the results of the 2023 Training Needs Assessment undertaken by the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP).
Description: Transforming Agrifood Systems for our Blue Pacific Continent through Better Production, Better Nutrition, a Better Environment and a Better Life
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): IMF ESCAP SIAP SPC
Description: Consumer price indexes (CPI) measure changes over time in the general level of prices of goods and services that households acquire (use or pay for) for the purpose of consumption. In many countriesthey were originally introduced to provide a measure of the changes in the living costs faced by workersso that wage increases could be related to changing levels of prices. Howeverover the yearsCPIs have widened their scope and now are widely used as a macroeconomic indicator of inflationas a tool by governments and central banks for monetary policy and for monitoring price stabilityand as deflators in the national accounts. With the globalization of trade and production and the liberalization of the marketsnational governmentscentral banksand international organizations place great importance on the quality and accuracy of national CPIsand their international comparability.CPIs are official statistics that are usually produced by NSOsMinistries of Finance and Labouror central banks. They are published as quickly as possiblegenerally within four weeks after the reference period. This face-to-face coursedeveloped jointly by SIAPIMFand SPCaims to build capacity to improve the compilation of consumer price indexes (CPI) that reflect international standards and best practice as described in the 2020 CPI Manual. Course topics will include overview of index calculation methodsdeveloping weightsselecting samplesprice collectiondata dissemination. The program will include interactive discussions to share country experiencespractical exercises to apply concepts and methods discussedand limited lecture.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 06 Sep 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP WHO
Description: SDG 3.8.2 indicator is focused on relatively large Out-of-Pocket (OOP) health spending which might lead to cutting spending on other basic needs such as educationfoodhousing and utilities.Butrecognizing that for poor and vulnerable people it is the absolute level of OOP health spending that is crucial – even if it represents less than 10% of a household’s total consumption or income (budget) – indicators of impoverishing health spending are also used to track the lack of financial protection in health and demonstrate the interdependency between SDG 1 “End poverty in all its form everywhere” and SDG target 3.8 on “Universal health coverage”. Specificallythese additional indictors include the proportion of the population impoverished or further impoverished by household expenditures on health using different poverty lines.The Subregional Training on Monitoring Financial Protection in Health will explain in detail the rationale to track SDG indicator 3.8.2why additional indicators are needed and how the monitoring framework can be expanded to support relevant policy discussions. This training will also discuss the data requirements to monitor the lack of financial protection in health.
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)
