Description: On the sidelines of the 57th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission, FAO, in collaboration with UNICEF and WHO, will host a side event titled “Strengthening Statistical Frameworks for Food Security and Nutrition: Progress on emerging Global Standards and Guidance” on Monday, 3 March 2026 from 08.30 to ...
Organizer(s): FAO International Food Policy Research Institute AI Generated
Description: FAO and IFPRI will hold a workshop to present the Women’s Empowerment and Nutrition questionnaire, share lessons from pilot studies, and support additional countries interested in integrating these tools.
Household surveys are a vital source of social and economic statistics. They play a central role in the design and evaluation of policies. They are also crucial to track progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals. After the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries expanded the use of phone surveys. The use of phone surveys raises important questions about accessibility and inclusivity.
The Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys (ISWGHS), in collaboration with the Data For Now Initiative, has drafted a set of guidelines. The guidelines will help make household surveys more accessible for persons with disabilities. The guidelines may also apply to other population groups. These include elderly people, who may also risk exclusion from household surveys.
Organizer(s): FAO International Food Policy Research Institute Emory University Oxford University World Bank AI Generated
Description: This webinar will present an overview of the development of the WEMNS and MDD-W metrics and describe the effort made by FAO and partner countries for integrating them in agricultural surveys, sharing experiences, successes, lessons learned and propose steps forward.
Organizer(s): Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative
Description: Attendees at the World Health Summit are warmly invited to join the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative for a timely discussion with high-level government officials, CRVS experts, global technical partners and donors about the challenges and lessons learned in strengthening CRVS in low- and middle-income countries — and for real-world examples of how death data has shaped the public health policies that save lives. When: Tuesday, October 14 from 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Where: World Health Summit, Berlin Speakers:Dr. Chloe Harvey, Associate Statistician, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the PacificDr. Alain Labrique, Director, Department of Digital Health & Innovation, World Health OrganizationDr. Luchenga Adam Mucheleng'anga, State Forensic Pathologist, Department of Home Affairs, Ministry of Home Affairs, ZambiaWith opening remarks from Betsy Fuller, MPA, Bloomberg Philanthropies. Moderator: Hannah Vaughan Jones, Moderator, Journalist and Broadcaster
Organizer(s): UNSD Gates Foundation Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys
Description: The Gates Foundation and the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys (ISWGHS) co-hosted a lunch to continue the dialogue on the recent disruptions to health and demographic survey programs. We are convening a group of key stakeholders, including representatives from philanthropic organizations, international organizations, and low- and middle-income country governments, to discuss how we can collectively and sustainably support the availability of high-quality, population-representative health and demographic data going forward.
Description: SOFI 2025 will present the latest data and analysis on hunger, food security and nutrition worldwide, including updated estimates on the cost and affordability of healthy diets.
Description: Rome Nutrition Week 2025 will be a timely opportunity for in-depth conversations, including on working better together, finding efficiencies and adopting more coherent policy approaches. It is ever more critical that we come together to strengthen cooperation and build on comparative advantages.
Description: World Health Organization is organizing a regional workshop on Getting everyone in the picture-how the health sector accelerated improvements in civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) (2015-2024) in Chon Buri Province, Thailand from 23–25 April 2025.Participation in this workshop is by invitation only.
Organizer(s): FAO IFAD UNICEF UNDP ECE WHO WMO AI Generated
Description: Join us for the launch of the Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2024 at 13:15 p.m. on 2 April (Room III, Palais des Nations) or online (UN Web TV), when FAO and the co-publishing partners will reveal the latest food security and nutrition trends for Europe and Central Asia and present the specific subtheme of the report ‘Managing water resources sustainable for improved food...
Description: This international meeting aims to bridge the gaps in gender health data and focus on strengthening and standardizing birth and death records, informing effective health policymaking, and ultimately enhancing public health outcomes worldwide through a gender equitable approach. ESCAP SD will join nearly 50 other leaders and partners from diverse sectors and regions to discuss the progress made, share insights, and develop actionable strategies to close gender data gaps and create more equitable health systems by 2030.
Description: In this session four presenters will share their experiences working with citizen data and persons with disabilities and lessons learned. Presentations will provide national examples from Ecuador, Kenya, and the Philippines and a regional example from the Pacific.
Description: Organized on the sidelines of the 52nd Plenary Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 52), held from 21 to 25 October 2024 in Rome, Italy.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP ESCAP
Description: According to the World Health Organization in 2021 more than 700 million people in Asia and the Pacific lived with some form of disabilitywhich accounted for 16 per cent of the population. Persons with disabilities encounter social and economic barriers and bias in all aspects of life. Disability statistics enable tracking socioeconomic indicators related to persons with disabilitiestherefore understanding better their needs to participate in society on an equal basis and identifying policy gaps to ensure disability-inclusive development.Within the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developmentdisability inclusion in the development process has been increasingly crucialnecessitating the need to improve disability disaggregated data to monitor disability-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators. At a regional levelthe Incheon Strategy to ‘Make the Right Real’ for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacificthe regional development goal to promote disability inclusionreinforces the importance of disability-disaggregated data to measure progress against its targets and indicators. Disability data as a critical instrument to advance disability-inclusive development was reaffirmed by the adoption of the Jakarta Declaration on the Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities2023–2032. Underscoring the continued implementation of the Incheon Strategythe Jakarta Declaration urges regional stakeholders to take measures to close disability data gaps and strengthen statistical capacities.
Description: Health policy evidence-building requires data sources such as healthcare claims, electronic health records, probability and nonprobability survey data, epidemiological surveillance databases, administrative data, and more, all of which have strengths and limitations for a given policy analysis. Data integration techniques leverage the relative strengths of input sources to obtain a blended source that is richer, more informative, and with better fitness-for-use than any single input component. This presentation notes the expansion of opportunities to use data integration for health policy analyses, reviews key methodological approaches to expand the number of variables in a data set or to increase the precision of estimates and provides directions for future research. As data quality improvement motivates data integration, key data quality frameworks are provided to structure assessments of candidate input data sources.
Description: In this Global Network Webinar, we welcomed Dr. Haidong Wang and Dr. Bochen Cao from the World Health Organization (WHO). They presented on the topic “World Health Statistics 2024: The World’s Annual Health Check.” The latest edition of the World Health Statistics report revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic reversed the trend of steady gain in life expectancy at birth and healthy life expectancy at birth (HALE). The pandemic wiped out nearly a decade of progress in improving life expectancy within just two years. Between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy and HALE dropped back to the levels of 2012. COVID-19 rapidly emerged as a leading cause of death, ranking as the third highest cause of mortality globally in 2020 and the second in 2021. Communicable diseases surged back to causing 23.0% of all deaths in 2020 and 28.1% in 2021 – a return to 2005 levels. These effects have been felt unequally across the world. The two speakers provided details on these and other key findings from the report during the webinar.
Description: The MAM-CoP secretariat is pleased to invite you to participate in the upcoming webinar. Title of the webinar: “Insights in Determining Causes of Death Amongst Adults using Verbal Autopsies”, Date: Monday 8 April 2024 Time: 08:00 – 09:00 am (New York time) (please click to check your time) Venue: Online via MS Teams Registration link: (Please register here) Once you have completed the registration process, a meeting link will be generated for you to access the webinar. For more details about the content and objectives of the webinar, please refer to the attached flyer.
Description: Persons with disabilities are one of the most marginalized and excluded groups in society and face countless barriers globally, yet lack of data on the barriers and enablers of persons with disabilities remains. One way to address this is the wider recognition of citizen-generated data, including data efforts led by organizations of persons with disabilities, to complement official statistics to address critical data gaps. This webinar will provide (1) an overview of citizen-generated data and stakeholder collaborations and (2) case studies on how organizations of persons with disabilities and allies have led data design, collection, management, and use to fill critical data gaps on the experiences of persons with disabilities to complement official statistics.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 24 Jan 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The main objective of this course is to offer theoretical overview of SHA Methodology, but also to give practical approach to build a health data questionnaire. The course will provide to the participants overview of current SHA requirements.
Target Audience: The course is targeted at statisticians working on health administrative data from National Statistical Institutes or Ministries of health/welfare.
Description: In this Global Network Webinar, Sophie Mitra of Fordham University and the Disability Data Initiative presented on the use of household surveys and population censuses to monitor the inequalities that affect persons with disabilities: recent evidence from the Disability Data Initiative. The speaker shared recent developments and highlighted research opportunities related to the situation of adults with disabilities worldwide. Based on recent results from the Disability Data Initiative, the webinar: (i) discussed various approaches to collect and analyze data on disability in household surveys and population censuses, in particular with respect to the types of questions used and how to analyze answer scales on severity; (ii) documented how and where questions on functional difficulties using the internationally tested Washington Group Short Set or similar questions have been adopted around the world; and (iii) presented results of analyses of Demographic and Health Survey and census data on whether persons with disabilities are being left behind in 15 countries. The webinar was attended by 44 colleagues from across the globe, including those from national statistical offices, UN resident coordinator offices, civil society, and academia. The recording is available on the Global Network. The Global Network of Data Officers and Statisticians aims to improve coordination and collaboration among peers and organizations, to connect existing but not necessarily wellconnected networks and initiatives, and to provide and share information on capacity building efforts globally. In the framework of the Global Network UNSD organizes a series of webinars. For more information visit our information pages.
Description: The PACIFIC CIVIL REGISTRARS NETWORK (PCRN) will be organizing the third webinar in the Webinar series (Journey Towards ICD-11 in the Pacific) on ICD applications, introduction to WHO-FIC and in-depth ICD-11 transition discussion. When: 15 November 2023 To register: Click here.
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.
Description: The first webinar series on "Measuring Adult Mortality Community of Practice (MAM-CoP)" was held on 6 September 2023, from 08.30 to 10.00 a.m. (New York time). The event focused on the use of surveys and censuses to measure the completeness and gaps in death registration and health information systems. Discussion in the event informed further work and guidance to countries on innovative and comprehensive measurement and collection of statistics on adult mortality. Concept note Event page website: https://unstats.un.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=143099385 (Member Only). Objectives: The objective of the webinar series is to facilitate knowledge sharing and innovative methods for measuring adult mortality. The specific objectives of this webinar are as follows: To share experiences and best practices, including the data quality and use, of select countries that have successfully incorporated a question on death registration status in their surveys and censuses. To discuss the importance of incorporating death registration status questions in surveys and censuses for improving mortality data accuracy and informing public health policies.
Description: The objective of the webinar series is to facilitate knowledge sharing and innovative methods for measuring adult mortality. The specific objectives of this webinar are as follows: To share experiences and best practices, including the data quality and use, of select countries that have successfully incorporated a question on death registration status in their surveys and censuses. To discuss the importance of incorporating death registration status questions in surveys and censuses (including recommending this topic in the next revision of the UN Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses) for improving mortality data accuracy and informing public health policies. The recording from the webinar is here
Description: This course is being organized by the Centre of Excellence on Data for Children with Disabilities, which UNICEF launched in 2021, in partnership with the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science of the University of Trento. This is the first time the training is being offered and it will focus on participants from the Europe and Central Asia region. It fits within the framework of the regional TransMonEE initiative. The course aims to increase participant knowledge on how to analyse and interpret data on children with disabilities obtained through the Child Functioning Module (CFM) and will provide participants with the opportunity to use their own country’s dataset to conduct the analysis. It is intended primarily for representatives of national statistical offices and other professionals whose primary work is to conduct data analysis.
Description: On 12 July 2023 from 10 AM to 12 PM (New York Time), FAO and its co-publishing partners will be launching, for the fifth time, the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report at a Special...
Description: In this Global Network Webinar, José Viera of the International Disability Alliance and Elizabeth Lockwood of CBM Global Disability Inclusion discussed the importance of disability data awareness and capacity building by sharing two disability data resources: the Disability Data Advocacy Toolkit and the Disability Data Advocacy Workshop for Organizations of Persons with Disabilities. The International Disability Alliance, Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities, and CBM Global Disability Inclusion developed the Disability Data Advocacy Toolkit to contribute to the growing global dialogue on the importance of data on persons with disabilities. The toolkit provides some basic knowledge on data collection, analysis, and use of data for evidenced-based advocacy to influence policy and decision makers. An innovative partnership was also established to increase the quality of disability data in the Asia-Pacific region. This partnership was between UNFPA Asia Pacific and CBM Global Disability Inclusion, in close collaboration with the International Disability Alliance, Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities and national and regional organizations of persons with disabilities, including the ASEAN Disability Forum and Pacific Disability Forum. A key outcome was a Disability Data Advocacy Workshop for Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs), a publicly available resource that was recently launched. The workshop aims to introduce the basic concepts and skills on disability data to OPDs and to support applying these in the local context.
Organizer(s): ESCAP UNSD New York University Abu Dhabi
Description: 17th May 2023, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM and 18th May 2023, 7:00 - 8:00 PM, Bangkok Time The Measuring Adult Mortality Community of Practice (MAM-CoP) is established in response to requests from countries as consolidated in an Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on Innovative methods to measure the Impact of COVID-19 on Mortality through Surveys and Censuses. The EGM meeting was organized under the guidance of the WHO-DESA Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Mortality Assessment (TAG). The objective of the kickoff meeting is to signify the start of the MAM-CoP that will bring together experts, researchers, and practitioners from different fields to share knowledge and best practices, collaborate on research and interventions, and ultimately contribute to reducing adult mortality rates and to agree upon the path forward and ways of working. The meeting is being organized by UNESCAP, UNSD and New York Abu Dhabi University.
Description: UNICEF’s Centre of Excellence on Data for Children with Disabilities will host an open house webinar on 25 April 2023. The Centre supports data analyses to promote the use of data and the generation of knowledge on the state of children with disabilities. During this open house, Jaclyn Yap will present her research project which is supported by the Centre and focuses on differing parenting practices among families of children with and without disabilities in low- and high-conflict affected areas. Updates about the Centre will also be shared during the open house.
Description: The Health Inequality Data Repository is the largest global collection of disaggregated data about health and determinants of health – with nearly 11 million data points across more than 2000 indicators. These data can be explored directly through the Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT), an interactive software which facilitates the examination of inequalities and the evaluation of relevant interventions to address them.
Description: Help us to showcase an impactful story on disability and illustrate the power of digital accessibility in data visualizations to create a more inclusive experience. We need visuals that are easy to understand but pack a punch. Something that will help us spread the word about disability and get people talking. So, get creative, don't be afraid to think outside the box, and slice and dice the data any way you like. Analyze the data from different perspectives - perhaps you will discover something that we haven’t seen! Don't miss your chance to use your creativity and contribute to the cause of accessible data visualization - start making an impact today.
Description: The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the Brisbane Accord Group, invites you to this webinar series. This series will introduce ICD-11 (International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision) and related resources available to Pacific Island countries and areas (PICs). The first webinar will be delivered by ICD experts from WHO headquarters and the Western Pacific Regional Office who will provide an overview of ICD-11, its implementation steps and discuss the implications of transitioning to ICD-11 based on PICs’ current ICD implementation. Dr Erwyn Ooi Chin Wei from the Ministry of Health, Malaysia will also share the experience and lessons learnt from implementing ICD-11 in Malaysia.
Organizer(s): ESCAP UNSD New York University Abu Dhabi
Description: The side events of 54th UNSC (United Nations Statistical Commission) will be held during 28 February - 3 March 2023 in New York. A side event to call for your attention is "Better measuring adult mortality: innovative approaches", to be organized by UNSD, NYU Abu Dhabi and UNESCAP on 1st March 2023 at 1:15-2:30 PM. The side event is the first of a webinar series on innovative methods to measure adult mortality and will be led by Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Mortality Assessment. The event will focus on the use of surveys and censuses to measure the completeness and gaps in death registration and health information systems. Discussion in the event will inform further work and guidance to countries on innovative and comprehensive measurement and collection of statistics on adult mortality. unstats.un.org | @UNStats | #UN54SC
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 29 Nov 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The main objective of this course is to offer theoretical overview of SHA Methodology, but also to give practical approach to build a health data questionnaire. The course will provide to the participants overview of current SHA requirements.
Target Audience: The course is targeted at statisticians working on health administrative data from National Statistical Institutes or Ministries of health/welfare.
Description: The annual Global Health Expenditure Report will showcase health spending for over 190 countries from 2000-2020. The report will feature early analyses on COVID-19 spending as well as a look into social protection spending. The report launch will coincide with updated data on the Global Health Expenditure Database.
Description: The High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition launched its 17th report "Data collection and analysis tools for food security and nutrition" on Friday 16 September 2022 in FAO HQ, in Rome, Italy....
Organizer(s): UNSD UN Population Division New York University Abu Dhabi
Description: The meeting will discuss and agree on a set of proposed recommendations for censuses and surveys based on ongoing research and experiments, and particularly in low-income and middle-income countries. These recommendations will seek to (a) improve adult mortality data collection in terms of quality, availability and timeliness; and (b) generate census and survey data that could be used to measure the impact of epidemics, pandemics and other disasters on adult mortality. The proposed recommendations would cover innovations in questionnaire design; interview methods and sampling strategies, as well as integration of surveys and censuses with other data sources on mortality (e.g., civil registration, health information systems).
Description: FAO held a series of webinars on Producing Proxy Estimates for SDG Indicator 5.a.1 using Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) on 17, 18 and 22 August 2022. Participants came from...
Description: This is the latest in a series of workshops held since 2017, which aims to: * Develop the capabilities of national statistical offices to collect and publish accurate and comparable disability statistics from household censuses and surveys. * Enhance understanding of concepts, definitions and methodologies so as to produce consistent data aligned with regional and international standards. * Discuss the development of stand-alone surveys to reach a consensus for a regional module. * Share good practices in producing disability statistics in the region and related challenges in data analysis.
Description: The purpose of this workshop is to enhance knowledge on the main issues relating to the collection, analysis, interpretation and use of data on children with disabilities. In particular, participants will gain understanding of data collection methods and tools, as well as the ability to read and interpret data. Finally, the workshop will strengthen the capacity of participants to disseminate and use data effectively to promote the rights of children with disabilities. The workshop is intended primarily for representatives of National Statistical Offices, Organizations of Persons with Disabilities and others working on data collection, analysis and dissemination. The training is made possible thanks to financial support from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Government of Australia, and is organized with the involvement of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics.
Target Audience: The main audience for the training will be experts and practitioners with a particular interest or responsibility in child disability. This will include (but not be limited to): * Representatives of National Statistical Offices; * Government staff, in particular those responsible for child disability programme development and implementation; * Monitoring and evaluation specialists from within the sector; * Local researchers and academics; * Representatives of Disabled Peoples’ Organizations; * Child disability practitioners.
Description: The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World is an annual flagship report to inform on progress towards ending hunger, achieving food security and improving nutrition and to...
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 13 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP
Description: Timelyreliable and comparable health statistics are fundamental to monitoring the health status of the population and for developingimplementing and evaluating health policies and practices that address health and health care. With the adoption of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developmentthe need for high-quality data for the over 50 health and health-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators has increased. The objective of this e-Learning course is to address capacity gaps in health statistics by providing a general understanding of the basic conceptmethods and framework required to compile and monitor the health and health-related SDG indicators.
Side event at 78th session of the Commission: Building a More Resilient Future with Inclusive Civil Registration and Vital Statistics – Strengthening linkages with the health sector
Description: Background Universal and responsive civil registration and vital statistics systems have a critical role in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Civil registration systems and identity management is important to build resilience and facilitate access to essential services in response to and recovery from disasters, the COVID-19 pandemic and other crises and in this regard. Increased engagement of the health sector in registration processes has an important role to play in ensuring more births and deaths are registered. Increased awareness of governments in Asia and the Pacific of the merits of closer collaboration between the health sector and CRVS and showcasing the progress in this area from Pakistan. This side event is organized by the Government of Pakistan, UNFPA, UNICEF, and ESCAP, and it is part of the seventy-eighth session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.
Description: As part of WHO ICD-11 webinar series, the Classifications and Terminologies Unit is organising a webinar on the 16th of May 2022 on: ''ICD-11 implementation strategy and country experiences'' Overview of ICD-11 Country experiences in ICD-11 implementation: * in morbidity coding; * in cause of death coding. Do's and Don'ts in implementing ICD-11
Description: We are pleased to announce the official launch of the GIS Centre for Health on 9 May 2022. The launch will take place at WHO Headquarters in Geneva. The event will also be live streamed on the WHO Workplace. Geneva-based colleagues are welcome to join in person at WHO Headquarters. The event will include opening and closing remarks by WHO senior leadership; an introduction to the GIS Centre for Health team; a highlight on partners, collaborators, regional offices and inspirational speakers; a panel discussion; a Q&A session and a GIS hands-on workshop. If you can join us in Geneva please register for the event here: https://indico.un.org/event/37794/ If you would like to join us online on zoom, please register here: https://who.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_V-fQvYE5SsCrJ4f6Yw40YQ
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Description: The FAO/WHO Global Individual Food consumption data Tool (FAO/WHO GIFT) has been selected following a Mapping of Digital-Related Initiatives Across the UN System, where 489 inputs from 39 UN entities were received. To highlight the outcomes...
Description: A user friendly dashboard to help countries to regulary monitor their progress and make evidence-based decisions about priority areas for action and resource allocation for children's health. This webinar event will showcase the dasbhoard, share the conceptualization process and provide a vision oand recomendations on the potential use to improving accountability for children's rights. Organized by WHO, UNICEF and CAP2030.
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Description: Background This Stats Café builds on an earlier session on COVID-19 and death registration, which featured towards the beginning of the pandemic in mid-2020. Since then, over five million COVID-19 deaths have been reported, however, estimates predict that the global excess deaths may be two to four times higher than those officially recorded. Being able to ascertain the true impact of COVID-19 on human lives is critical for informing resource allocation and assessing the effectiveness of public health interventions as the pandemic evolves. However, many countries still lack functioning civil registration and vital statistics systems to provide accurate, complete and timely data on deaths and causes of death. This, coupled with the differences in how countries test and report COVID-19 deaths, makes it challenging to measure the true loss of life from the pandemic. The COVID-19 mortality rate has also sparked heated discussions among the general public, with false claims circulating online that the number of COVID-19 deaths have been inflated in order to justify lockdowns and other restrictions. Demographers, data scientists, and epidemiologists have turned to the estimation of excess mortality to try to understand just how many people died as a result of COVID-19. Excess mortality estimates measure the gap between the number of deaths in an average year under normal conditions and the number of deaths during a crisis, adjusting for relevant demographic changes as far as possible. This Stats Café aimed to share a snapshot of some of the varied approaches taken by countries and organizations to produce estimates of excess mortality, as well as provide a journalistic insight of best practices in reporting on it. Agenda for this session Welcoming Remarks, housekeeping and overview of session: Ms. Rachael Beaven, Director, Statistics Division, ESCAP Introduction to estimating excess mortality: Mr. Steve MacFeely, WHO Technical insight from the South African experience of estimating excess mortality: Professor Tom Moultrie, University of Cape Town, South Africa Mortality deficit in New Zealand through the COVID-19 pandemic: Ms. Helen He, Stats News Zealand Estimating excess mortality in Malaysia: Dr. Shubash Shander, Ministry of Health, Malaysia Trusting the numbers and tackling misinformation: perspectives of a data journalist: Ms. Rukmini Shrinivasan, Independent Data Journalist Q and A and wrap-up , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
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Description: The WHO Classifications and Terminologies Unit is organizing a webinar upon the release of 2022 WHO verbal autopsy instrument on the 6th of April 2022 at 12:00 UTC/14:00 CET. Agenda 14:00 Welcome note Stephen MacFeely Director, Department of Data and Analytics - WHO HQ 14:05 Introduction to verbal autopsy Robert Jakob Unit Head, Classifications & Terminologies - WHO HQ 14:12 Development of WHO verbal autopsy instrument Daniel Chandramohan Past chair of the WHO Verbal Autopsy Reference Group 14:20 2022 WHO verbal autopsy instrument revision Erin Nichols, Co-chair of the WHO Verbal Autopsy Reference Group 14:30 Verbal autopsy implementation and application Daniel Cobos, Co-chair of the WHO Verbal Autopsy Reference Group 14:40 Demo of electronic tools for 2022 WHO verbal autopsy instrument Leito, Clark and Di Pasquale, WHO Verbal Autopsy Reference Group 14:45 Q & A session Jordana Leito, Secretariat of the WHO Verbal Autopsy Reference Group Carine Alsokhn, Technical Officer at Classifications & Terminologies Unit - WHO HQ 15:00 Closing remarks Robert Jakob Unit Head, Classifications & Terminologies - WHO HQ Go to webinar: https://who.zoom.us/j/95242504361 WHO Verbal Autopsy page: https://www.who.int/standards/classifications/other-classifications/verbal-autopsy-standards-ascertaining-and-attributing-causes-of-death-tool For more information: please contact [email protected].
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Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 04 Jan 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The main objective of this course is to offer theoretical overview of SHA Methodology, but also to give practical approach to build a health data questionnaire. The course will provide to the participants overview of current SHA requirements.
Target Audience: The course is targeted at statisticians working on health administrative data from National Statistical Institutes or Ministries of health/welfare
Description: The State of inequality: HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria report is the first systematic global analysis of the state of inequality in HIV, TB and malaria. As part of the activities to launch the report, there will be a webinar accompanied by social media posts. The webinar will highlight the key findings of the report and have an expert panel discussion about applying the recommendations from the report and how inequities in HIV, tuberculosis and malaria can be tackled.
Target Audience: SRMNCAH programme managers, monitoring and evaluation officers, multisectoral stakeholders, as well as academia and the general public.
Source: IOM GMDAC (Data extracted on: 05 Jan 2022 )
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Organizer(s): IOM GMDAC
Description: The physical health, mental health, and general well-being of migrants and people on the move, in particular, is a vital issue. Political and social structures must respond to the challenges posed by population movements, including a focus on achieving universal health coverage using the building blocks of health systems. Migrations, particularly within the continent, have always been an important component of African lives. Recent factors such as climate change and population growth contribute to exacerbating this mobility trajectory. Promoting the health of migrants and migration-affected populations is not only essential to enable safe, orderly, and humane migration, but also to ensure that the economic and development benefits of migration are sustainable for both sending and receiving countries. Despite their positive contributions, many international migrants are at greater risk of vulnerable situations that put their own health status at risk. They may be denied access to health services by law, or they are unable to access these services in practice. This webinar will address how migration data can help design and implement more effective health programs for migrants in Africa.
Description: This ministerial roundtable was organized by ESCAP. It took place online on 19 November 2021, from 08:30 to 09:30 hrs, Bangkok time. Overview: The pandemic has caused both tremendous challenges and opportunities for CRVS systems, especially related to deaths, and calls for collective efforts to shape the future landscape of health information and ensure the benefits for sustainable development. The most fundamental question: How many people have actually died from COVID-19 cannot yet be answered in many countries in the region. Indeed, it may take some time before we know the answer and, in some countries, we may never know. In particular, the most vulnerable and marginalized populations – those often most at risk of COVID-19 – may never have their deaths counted. A well-functioning civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system is necessary to provide an answer to this question. However, during a public health emergency such as COVID-19, even a well-functioning CRVS system is faced with challenges of backlogs in death registrations and diagnostic uncertainties. Issues for discussion: How can we respond to the ongoing challenges posed by the pandemic while leveraging the spotlight on mortality statistics to ensure sustainable capacity strengthening? What can Governments and the international community do to assist least developed countries in rebuilding through productive transformation of CRVS systems to ensure preparedness for the next health emergency or pandemic?
Description: This warm-up session was organized by Vital Strategies and WHO. It took place online on 17 November 2021, from 08:45 to 09:30 hrs, Bangkok time, before starting Agenda item 3 of the provisional agenda. The session was dedicated to the topic of Agenda item 3 and focused on the health sector and civil registration and vital statistics.
Description: This meeting is an important activity towards the improved coordination between the multitude of international partners involved in CRVS strengthening activities and constitutes one of the strategic objectives of this Strategic Implementation Plan. WHO convenes CRVS partners to discuss complementary, innovative, and cost-effective approaches to CRVS system strengthening in the context of the GPW 13 strategic shift towards “Health in All Policies”.
Description: (Newsletter: CRVS Insight November 2021) The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of well-functioning CRVS systems which, as the SCORE for Health Data Technical Package assessment has shown, are still not producing data of sufficient quality to guide public health decision-making in many parts of the world. In response, WHO is working with partners to prioritize CRVS strengthening at global, regional, and country levels. Efforts to strengthen CRVS systems by countries have already led to important lessons and experiences that we can together draw from, as we scale this work more broadly. This meeting will focus on: Introducing partners to WHO’s global efforts in CRVS strengthening and the WHO CRVS Strategic Implementation Plan 2021-2025; Promoting a stronger role of health in CRVS and ensuring alignment with current WHO regional CRVS strategies, addressing the key concerns of the different regions; Reviewing CRVS partners’ activities and discussing potential collaborative opportunities; and, Identifying and addressing the current gaps in CRVS systems. Interested parties can access the technical partnership meeting via Zoom with the following information or contact Dr. Azza Badr ([email protected]) for any additional queries. 9 – 10 November 15:00 – 18:00 CET Zoom link: https://who.zoom.us/j/94222186038 Passcode: Rpi=EKC5
Description: This side-event was organized by ESCAP. It took place online on 9 November 2021, from 12:00 to 13:30 hrs, Bangkok time. Background: The current pandemic has put mortality statistics at the center of attention. Daily reports of the number of deaths due to COVID-19 have been a critical tool of governance and have played a major role in public debate. This scrutiny has made visible shortcomings in cause of death and overall mortality monitoring that most countries still experience. The true toll of the pandemic and the consequences of these shortcomings in the monitoring tools are still to be measured, but the importance of addressing them so that every death is registered is undeniable. While estimates of the number of births that are not registered globally have been published by UNICEF, the literature on similar estimates for unregistered deaths is limited. Recent debates and studies have mostly focused on COVID-19 related deaths and not on overall death registration. ESCAP has therefore tried to develop an estimate of unregistered deaths for the Asia and the Pacific region. The study conducted based on publicly available data found that 7.8 million deaths were still not registered in 2018 in the region. This important blind spot has detrimental consequences for the current crisis, but also for future ones and for overall public governance. Further identifying where these ‘invisible’ deaths occur and who are the ones not counted is necessary to achieve universal registration. At the midpoint of the Asia and Pacific Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Decade, the results of this study highlight the progresses made both in data availability and in registration completeness, as well as the challenges remaining in those aspects. Scope: This side-event was based on a Stats Brief published by ESCAP. It was independent from the midterm review of the implementation of the Regional Action Framework for CRVS in Asia and the Pacific since it used different data sources for most countries. As a result, it covered all countries in the region, including countries that have not answered the midterm questionnaire on the implementation of the Regional Action Framework.
Organizer(s): SESRIC Occupational Health and Safety Institute Tunisia National Social Security Fund Djibouti
Description: Within the framework of the OIC-OSHNET Work Plan 2021-2022, the Tunisian Occupational Health and Safety Institute (TOSHI) of the Republic of Tunisia, in collaboration with the National Social Security Fund of the Republic of Djibouti, will organise a Training Workshop on “Data Collection and Analysis in Occupational Safety and Health (OSH)” on 01-04 November 2021 through an online video conferencing platform. The training will be provided by competent experts from the Tunisian Occupational Health and Safety Institute (TOSHI) and the National Social Security Fund of the Republic of Djibouti for the benefit of participants from the National OSH Authorities of OIC member countries. The training course aims at strengthening the technical capacities of the participants on how to maintain and use statistics of occupational accidents with a view to promoting prevention of occupational risks in companies as well as developing an action plan at national levels. The training workshop will also provide insights into various subjects, including the process for collecting and analysing statistics at regional and national levels and statistics of work accidents as a tool for help and guidance in companies. The OIC-OSHNET is an OIC platform established to create closer cooperation among the national OSH Institutions of the OIC Member States through sharing knowledge, experience and best practices. SESRIC assumes the role of the OIC Technical Coordinator of the OIC-OSHNET and provides facilitation and necessary technical support for the successful implementation of the activities organised within the framework of the OIC-OSHNET Work Plan 2021-2022. For more details about the Network, please visit: https://oshnet.sesric.org/index.php
Description: When used well, civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) data can add credibility to a narrative and enhance a journalistic story. However, writing articles or preparing other media products based on CRVS data requires knowledge of how a well-functioning CRVS system works, who is responsible for the administration of the systems and the kind of data it can produce. Furthermore, journalists and content producers need to know how to analyze data to articulate trends and patterns while communicating findings clearly and accurately to their audience. As national CRVS systems continue to develop and grow in importance, so does the need for journalists to understand how best to harness the power of data and the role of government institutions in maintaining timely and accurate CRVS systems. As a result, Vital Strategies and United Nations ESCAP will hold a 1-day virtual training session for journalists on 29 October 2021 to learn about CRVS systems, the type of data these systems produce and how to utilize effective data communication strategies, as well as the ‘Get Every One in the Picture’ regional initiative. The virtual training session will utilize Vital Strategies’ e-learning platform and include live, group discussion and activity sessions held over Microsoft Teams before and after the Conference. The training will utilize modules from an e-learning platform developed by Vital Strategies and designed to educate journalists on utilizing public health and CRVS data in their reporting. The training aims to build the data-use skillset of a select group of journalists interested in developing stories based on CRVS data.
Description: The COVID–19 pandemic has exposed long-standing data governance issues such as intellectual property rights, data sharing, reuse and storage. Globally, persistent data gaps and fragmented approaches to governing health data in different contexts are a major roadblock to using data as a Global Public Good. Health data is a strategic asset that requires global cooperation with clear direction in an evolving, fragmented global landscape. This is highlighted in the UN Secretary General’s Data Strategy, World Bank’s 2021 Development Report, 52nd UN Economic and Social Council Statistical Commission and OECD’s Partnership in Statistics (PARIS21). In response, WHO has convened a global summit on health data governance over two half-days. The first summit on 30 June brought together WHO, Member States, partners and the general public to underscore the need for health data as a global public good, the importance of adopting common data principles, and the urgency to institutionalize robust data governance mechanisms across all sectors. This resulted in a draft summit statement which was made available for public comment as well as a Summit Report outlining key takeaways. The second summit on 30 September will present the final summit statement and further advance this dialogue with a focus on three technical tracks: 1. Research data sharing 2. Public health and disease surveillance 3. Data sharing policies: Legal and ethical considerations
Description: As part of WHO ICD-11 webinar series, the Classifications and Terminologies Unit and the Occupational Health Programme are organising an ICD-11 webinar that will be held in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation on September 17th, 2021 at 14:00 CEST. The webinar will focus on: ICD-11 use in Occupational health.
Global consultation to optimize Routine Health Information Systems (RHIS) to effectively deliver Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and Primary Health Care (PHC) in countries
Description: The SCORE for Health Data Technical Package (Survey, Count, Optimize, Review, Enable) offers more than 90 tools and standards to assist Member States in strengthening data and health information systems capacity. The SCORE global report, 2020 found that nearly 50% of countries have limited capacity for systematic monitoring of health care and only 4% have sustainable capacity to optimize health service data. The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored these gaps and highlighted the urgency of timely, reliable, disaggregated and actionable data to better prepare, detect, and respond to emergencies and provide high quality essential services. Routine Health Information Systems (RHIS) are an essential source of data to monitor access and quality of health services to improve the performance of PHC and UHC. The Global Consultation will focus on: • The importance, components and applications of Routine Health Information Systems (RHIS) • Data gaps and tools from the SCORE technical package • Sharing best practices and perspectives from countries and partners • Describing the value of integrated data and health information systems with a focus on building sustainable capacity in countries • Promoting better alignment of partnerships and resources to accelerate progress The outcomes of this dialogue will aim to further strengthen RHIS in countries so that when SCORE assessments are repeated in 2025, every country will have a robust health information system which is crucial to track progress towards the GPW 13 “triple billion” targets and health-related SDGs.
Description: Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO, and HE Dr Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany will inaugurate the new global WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence in Berlin. The Hub will bring together partners worldwide to collaborate and create the tools and data needed for all countries to prepare, detect and respond to pandemic and epidemic risks. This special event will also include a ceremony to recognize Chancellor Merkel’s outstanding leadership in global public health.
Description: SOFI 2021 report presents the first evidence-based global assessment of chronic food insecurity in the year the COVID-19 pandemic emerged and spread across the globe.
Description: The VNR lab will provide a platform for countries to share their experiences-both successes and challenges-in planning and preparing an evidence-based and data-driven VNR in the time of COVID-19. Data and statistics are guiding countries' effort in combating the virus, saving lives and recovering better. Over the last year, countries have faced unprecedented disruptions in statistical operations and a spike in demand for data to monitor and mitigate the effects of the global pandemic.
Description: During this Global Network Webinar Samira Asma, William Msemburi, Bochen Cao, and Nelly Biondi from the World Health Organization (WHO) will present the World Health Statistics report 2021: The World Health Statistics report is WHO’s annual ‘state of the world’s health’ assessment with the latest data on more than 50 health-related Sustainable Development Goal and “triple billion” target indicators. The 2021 edition was published in May and presents the latest data and trends for life expectancy, mortality and burden of disease at global and regional levels. It also includes preliminary estimates for global excess deaths attributable to COVID-19 for 2020 with a focus on health inequalities and data gaps that have been accentuated by the pandemic. In this webinar, our speakers will explore the stories behind the data and highlight key findings. Explore the SDG indicators data sets, read the visual summary, and learn about the impact of COVID-19 on global health goals.
Description: The CFS is organizing a half-day public event in support of the CFS 2020-2023 Multi-year Program of Work (MYPOW), specifically its approved major work-stream on data systems related to global...
Description: Improving evidence-based health outcomes depends on data that is available, timely, actionable and reliable. Health data needs to be collected, stored, shared transparently and analysed based on the foundations of strong data governance. The momentum for health data being a Global Public Good requires: i) consensus building, ii) investment (technical, regulatory and policy), iii) implementation (training and capacity building), and iv) multi-sectoral partnerships that include citizen science. The World Health Organization and partners will build on this momentum for greater…
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Description: Evidence-based medicine relies on using data to provide recommendations for effective treatment or prevention decisions. However, in many settings, effects may be heterogeneous across individuals, and within individuals over time. Healthcare providers are faced with the daunting task of making sequential therapeutic decisions having seen few patients with a given clinical history. Adaptive treatment strategies (ATS) operationalize the sequential decision-making process in the precision medicine paradigm, offering statisticians principled estimation tools that can be used to incorporate patient’s characteristics into a clinical decision-making framework so as to adapt the type, dosage or timing of intervention according to patients’ evolving needs.
Target Audience: Statisticians familiar with regression methods.
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Description: The International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS) invites all interested to attend this webinar to be held on 25 June 2021 at 13.00-14.30 CEST.
Description: The course is an introduction to effectively communicating, to general audiences, complex statistical modelling and estimation related to Covid-19 data. The instruction will be at a beginner level. The 6 hours course is split in 2 days and will cover “Basics of effective communication to a general audience” on day 1 and “Introduction to estimation and modelling of covid-19 data: prevalence, incidence, epi-curves, transmissibility and reproduction numbers” on day 2. Classes will include stop&go discussion upon broadcasting of video-recorded interviews with experts and professionals in media monitoring and communication of health data. A student assignment is scheduled at the end of day 1 lessons with feedback on day 2 for shared learning.
Target Audience: Students, early career researchers and professionals with basic background in statistics and at beginner level in epidemiology.
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Description: (Newsletter: CRVS Insight June 2021) The World Health Organization, UNICEF and Vital Strategies are pleased to announce an upcoming webinar on health sector best practices for engaging and improving coverage and inclusion for birth and death registration. Insight readers are invited to join the live discussion on 23 June 2021 from 8 a.m.–9:30 a.m. (New York) focused on the importance of CRVS systems for individuals and countries. The event will highlight country case studies of inspiring leadership, sound governance and coordination and their role in reinforcing linkages with health systems to ensure that every birth and every death is registered and counted. More information on the event including how to register can be found here.
Description: In order to successfully address and mitigate the current infodemic and promote more effective future response, the World Health Organization (WHO) is organizing the 2nd Infodemic Management Training. From physics to law to behavioral science to epidemiology to user experience and design — it is clear that an infodemic manager would need a wider array of skills and expertise to successfully address infodemics that go beyond traditional boundaries of epidemiology, risk communication and community engagement and digital media. The training…
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Description: During this Global Network Webinar Craig Burgess and Mwenya Kasonde from the UN World Health Organization (WHO) and Hellen Kiarie from the Ministry of Health in Kenya presented the Health Data Collaborative: The Health Data Collaborative (HDC) is a UHC2030 related initiative that has three objectives: 1. To strengthen country Health information Systems; 2. To align partner resources with country identified data and digital priorities; and 3. To contextualize and adapt global data and digital tools with country and local contexts. The HDC was launched in March 2016, based on foundational concepts from the International Health Partnership (IHP+) 2010-2015 political commitment, following a 2015 high-level summit on Measurement and Accountability for Results in Health. This is focused on support for data efforts for the SDGs, including communities left behind. The HDC currently supports 11 countries (Malawi, Uganda, Kenya, Cameroon, Tanzania, Botswana, Zambia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Myanmar) and HDC partners are represented in 7 constituencies: i) countries, ii) multilaterals, iii) bilateral donors and philanthropic institutions, iv) global health initiatives, v) research, academia and technical networks, vi) civil society and vii) private sector. Membership has rapidly increased over the last year. The HDC Secretariat is hosted by WHO (with staffing from WHO and UNICEF) and helps convene and facilitate dialogue between various UN agency and partner technical initiatives to provide support at country, regional and global levels. The HDC plays a knowledge broker role, helping to disseminate information and best practices from different data and digital initiatives, including specific webinar sessions. In this Global Network Webinar our speakers gave an update of the HDC, provided country perspectives on the HDC, and outlined the added value of the HDC and opportunities for alignment towards common Sustainable Development Goals.
Description: The Washington Group on Disability Statistics held its first ever mid-year meeting on 26th May, 2021. This virtual meeting was attended by 128 representatives of National Statistical Offices, United Nations entities, and Civil Society Organizations, including Organizations of Persons with Disabilities.
Description: During this joint ISWGHS-Global Network Webinar we were happy to have Ruth Studley and Sarah Crofts from the Office for National Statistics (ONS, the UK’s National Statistical Office) who talked about The UK Covid Infection Survey explaining what the ONS UK has done to address the data needs of the COVID-19 pandemic and what our colleagues have learned during the process. This Global Network Webinar was organized in cooperation with the Inter-secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys (ISWGHS). The presentation covered how the ONS UK established the Covid Infection Survey (CIS), why it was best placed with the ONS, what approach the ONS colleagues took to set it up, the lessons they learned and how they mobilized themselves to respond to the rapidly changing user need such as the questions they asked, the way they collected data, and the way they analyzed it.
Description: A virtual webinar that will give an overview of ICD-11 and the tools for implementation. The classifications and terminologies team will respond to questions in a Q & A session following the presentations.
Description: Virtual global expert consultation to reach consensus on WHS+ topics, finalize protocols and implementation plans, and initialize implementation in countries. Implementation results will be presented at the WHA in 2022. See more information: https://www.who.int/data/data-collection-tools/world-health-survey-plus
Title in Spanish: Estadísticas de discapacidad con perspectiva regional: el Grupo de Buenos Aires
Organizer(s): ECLAC INDEC Argentina
Description: Este es un evento paralelo de la Vigésima reunión del Comité Ejecutivo de la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas de la CEPAL, organizado por el INDEC de Argentina.
Description: This side event, organised in the context of the Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development 2021, aims to explore how the use of health data is critical to address the indirect effects of COVID-19 on the delivery and use of sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (SRMNCAH) services in the Asia-Pacific region and the implications on achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal for Health (SDG 3). The COVID-19 pandemic is straining health systems globally. Governments have had to respond quickly to curb the transmission of COVID-19. The consequent disruption of services on already overstretched health systems, and the diversion of resources from essential health services, threaten the progress made so far in achieving the 2030 SDG goal on health. This side event will provide an opportunity to reflect on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on SRMNCAH services for women newborns, children and young people in the Asia-Pacific region, share good practices and spread awareness on the status of the 2030 agenda for SDG 3. The event will include presentations and discussions by representatives of the Ministries of Health of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal and of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, moderated by the WHO Office for South-East Asia, the UNFPA Regional office for Asia-Pacific and the UNICEF’s South Asia and East Asia and Pacific Regional Offices. The event will be held on Monday 22 March, 11-12h (Bangkok time, GMT+7, verify your time here). You can register for the event here.
Title in Spanish: Capacitación virtual en la medición y reporte del indicador 2.1.2 de los ODS
Organizer(s): FAO
Description: Este curso está dirigido principalmente a aquellos que participan en la recopilación, análisis y elaboración del informe del indicador 2.1.2 de los ODS, así como para personas interesadas en el proceso.
