Description: The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), is organizing a regional thematic conference on 'Managing a statistical organization in times of change' for South-East and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia countries (SE-EECCA), including Russia and Turkey. The Conference is scheduled to take place from 5 to 7 December 2023 in Almaty, Kazakhstan and is part of a series of regional events to understand and priorities 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. The Conference will also stimulate an exchange of information on national best practices as well as on recent global and regional initiatives and Programmes that will inform and illustrate the next edition of the Handbook of Statistical Organization.
Description: Information: A workshop designed to enhance understanding of internationally agreed methods for measuring illicit financial flows by national experts responsible for SDG 16. Report of the training workshop List of participants Concept note Programme Information note for participants The workshop’s objectives: Raise awareness of existing methodologies for estimating illicit financial flows in Central Asia Enhance the understanding of different methods for measuring illicit financial flows Build the capacity to identify and apply appropriate methods that best fits the estimation of illicit financial flows in their participants’ respective countries Share experiences of setting up systems to compile illicit financial flows data References: Methodological guidelines to measure tax and commercial illicit financial flows. Conceptual framework for the statistical measurement of illicit financial flows. Estimating illicit financial flows from trade mis-invoicing : introducing the ‘Grey Re-exports’ method (The case of Kyrgyzstan). Previous training workshops: Final Workshop of Project on Statistics and Data for Measuring Illicit Financial Flows in the Asia-Pacific Region, 7-8 December, 2022. Interregional training workshop on the statistical measurement of tax and commercial illicit financial flows (IFFs), 6-13 December 2021. Previous Stats Café: Progress on Estimating Illicit Financial Flows – Lessons from the Asia-Pacific Region, 26 September 2022. Estimating the size of illicit financial flows: Strengthening national capacity to monitor SDG target 16.4, 22 September 2020. Информация: Целью семинара является углубление понимания утвержденных на международном уровне методов измерения незаконных финансовых потоков национальными экспертами, ответственными за ЦУР 16. Программа Информационная записка Задачи семинара: Ознакомить участников с существующими методами оценки незаконных финансовых потоков. Углубить понимание различных методов измерения незаконных финансовых потоков. Нарастить потенциал выбора и применения соответствующих методов оценки незаконных финансовых потоков в странах участников. Поделиться опытом создания систем сбора данных о незаконных финансовых потоках. Использованная литература: Методические рекомендации по измерению налоговых и коммерческих незаконных финансовых потоков. Концептуальные основы статистического измерения незаконных финансовых потоков. Оценка незаконных финансовых потоков от торговли: внедрение метода «серого реэкспорта» (на примере Кыргызской Республики). Предыдущие обучающие семинары: Заключительный семинар проекта «Статистика и данные для измерения незаконных финансовых потоков в Азиатско-Тихоокеанском регионе», 7–8 декабря 2022 г. Межрегиональный обучающий семинар по статистическому измерению налоговых и коммерческих незаконных финансовых потоков (НФП), 6–13 декабря 2021 г. Статс-кафе: Прогресс в оценке незаконных финансовых потоков – уроки Азиатско-Тихоокеанского региона,, 26 сентября 2022 г. Оценка объёма незаконных финансовых потоков: укрепление национального потенциала для мониторинга задачи 16.4 ЦУР, 22 сентября 2020 г.
Description: UNSD conducted a capacity building training workshop on the Degree of Urbanisation(DEGURBA) Methodology for national statistics offices and geospatial institutions of countries in Central Asia. The workshop was organized in cooperation with the European Commission Joint Research Center (EC-JRC) and UN-Habitat and included the participation of statisticians and geospatial specialists from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, as well as experts from UNSD, ESCAP, EC-JRC and UN-Habitat. As national Statistical Offices use different national criteria to define cities, urban and rural areas, the Degree of Urbanisation methodology was developed by the European Commission, UN-Habitat, FAO and other partners as a way to harmonize these definitions and promote international and regional data comparability, particularly in the context of reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and on the New Urban Agenda (NUA). DEGURBA was endorsed by the Statistical Commission at its 51stSession in 2020. Through theoretical and practical sessions the participants were trained on 1) the need for this methodology 2) theory and concepts 3) data inputs, data preparation and technical capacity 4) applying the methodology, reviewing and evaluating the results and5) its applications for reporting of data and SDG indicators by degree of urbanization. The participants also exchanged experiences/challenges and learned from each other. Finally, this capacity building workshop further emphasized and provided practical knowledge on the importance of integrating census data with geospatial information.
Description: The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in collaboration with the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Statistics, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), with support of Statistics Netherlands, is organizing the Regional Training Workshop on the Production of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting-Energy (SEEA-Energy) Accounts and the Use of Energy Information for Policy, for countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) and South-Eastern Europe (SEE). The workshop will be held at the UN house (Subregional Office for North and Central Asia) in Almaty, Kazakhstan from 17 to 20 December 2019. The regional training workshop is a second phase of the regional training programme, which builds upon the online phase of the training that started in late-October 2019. The in-person phase will provide a unique opportunity for participants who have an understanding of basic energy statistics, energy balances and SEEA-Energy concepts as well as their use for policy to improve their knowledge through practical examples and discussions. The workshop will be conducted with simultaneous interpretation in English and Russian.
Description: The regional workshop “International Trade Statistics: Edge of Tomorrow” would engage in the discussion on best practices, challenges and solutions for collecting and processing high quality international merchandise trade statistics. It is organized jointly by the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD); and it aims to explore new data sources and innovative ways in compiling trade data considering emerging users’ need in data, such as measuring cross-border e-commerce and feasibility of applying big data for trade statistics. It is expected that representatives of central banks, statistical offices and custom authorities in Central Asia region, as well as international agencies would attend the event.
Description: Download group photo. The Workshop on the Sustainable Development Goal indicators on water-use efficiency and water stress for the countries of Central Asia is organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in collaboration with the Russian Federation Federal State Statistics Service and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The workshop was held at the Grand Hotel Tien-Shan, Almaty, Kazakhstan, on 8-10 October 2019. The workshop is part of the project Strengthening research and studies for improved quality of SDG statistics in Central Asia, funded by the Russian Federation, which aims to strengthen the capacity of the countries of Central Asia to produce data for priority SDG indicators through the development of training material, including in the Russian language, and the subsequent design and delivery of training courses through face-to-face and/or e-learning modalities. The aim of the workshop was to meet the training needs with respect to the indicators of target 6.4 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, “By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity”, namely 6.4.1 Change in water use efficiency over time and 6.4.2 Level of water stress: freshwater withdrawal as a proportion of available freshwater resources. ___________ Семинар по показателям Целей в области Устойчивого Развития по эффективности водопользования и водному стрессу для стран Центральной Азии организован Экономической и Социальной Комиссией ООН для Азии и Тихого океана (ЭСКАТО) в сотрудничестве с Федеральной Службой Государственной Статистики Российской Федерации (Росстат) и Продовольственной и Сельскохозяйственной Организацией Объединенных Наций. Семинар состоится 8-10 октября 2019 года в Гранд Отеле Тянь-Шань, Алматы, Казахстан. Семинар является частью проекта «Укрепление научных исследований для улучшения качества статистики ЦУР в Центральной Азии», финансируемого Российской Федерацией, который направлен на укрепление потенциала стран Центральной Азии для сбора данных по приоритетным показателям ЦУР посредством подготовки учебных материалов, в том числе на русском языке, и последующей разработки и проведения учебных курсов очного обучения и / или с помощью электронных средств обучения. Целью семинара является удовлетворение потребностей в обучении в отношении показателей задачи 6.4 Повестки дня в области Устойчивого Развития на период до 2030 года «К 2030г. значительно повысить эффективность водопользования во всех секторах и обеспечить сбалансированный забор пресной воды и ее пополнение для решения проблемы нехватки воды и существенного сокращения числа страдающих от этого людей.», а именно 6.4.1 Динамика изменения эффективности водопользования и 6.4.2 Уровень водного стресса: забор пресной воды в процентном отношении к имеющимся запасам пресной воды.
Description: The geospatial and statistical professional communities are major contributors of information to support policy- and decision-making processes across many public and private sectors. With the increasing complexity of national, regional and global challenges and issues, the need to better understand the interrelationships across the economic, social and environmental pillars of sustainable development is becoming ever more critical. In this connection, there is a clear recognition that one of the key challenges is a better integration of geospatial (which includes much environmental information) and statistical information (which includes much socioeconomic information) as a basis for sound and evidence-based policy- and decision-making. UN entities and key stakeholders such as the United Nations Statistical Commission (Statistical Commission) and the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) have explored the global statistical and geospatial framework to support the assessment of the progress in implementing disaster-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The geo-statistical results can significantly improve the quality of official statistics for the measuring and monitoring of SDGs, including disaster risks and impacts. Documents EGM Report Concept Note List of Participants Programme Presentations Basic Data Requirements for Geo-based Risk Assessment Disaster-related Statistical Geospatial Indicators Developing geo-statistical indicators and adaptive pathways for disaster risk reduction
