Description: Body During this workshop, invited experts from Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie (INSTaD) in Benin and the Commission for the West African Monetary Union (UEMOA), in collaboration with UNCTAD specialists, will clean and analyze the data collected during the most recent edition of the international trade in services survey, completed in spring 2025, and will prepare draft statistical reports.This workshop follows the joint technical assistance mission by UEMOA and UNCTAD carried out as part of the 2025 edition of the international trade in services survey, which took place in Cotonou (Benin) from 4 to 6 December 2024, during which all necessary preparations for conducting the survey using TiSSTAT were completed.Benin is at the forefront of TiSSTAT implementation, and UNCTAD will benefit from learning about INSTaD's needs in order to improve the application based on feedback from the workshop.
Description: Body UNCTAD's Division for Africa, Least Developed Countries and Special Programmes (ALDC) in partnership with UNCTAD Statistics Service, works jointly with African countries to develop and implement effective policies to tackle illicit financial flows (IFFs) based on robust measurements and evidence of the most harmful IFFs in each country, and enable the focus of countries to increase their fiscal space for sustainable development. UNCTAD strives for consensus-building, cutting edge thinking to support African countries to build their institutional capacity to understand IFFs better, and address more effectively their sustainable development financing needs.In this regard, UNCTAD is coordinating a joint measurement workshop and policy expert group meeting with the main objective of looking at policy options that can be implemented to curb IFFs and strengthen domestic resource mobilization for African countries based on nationally compiled IFF statistics.The meeting is organized in two parts: the measurement workshop will be held on Monday, 3 February and Tuesday, 4 February (morning) and is open to countries’ representatives of the project, while the afternoon will include other invited participants to discuss general measurement concepts. The policy workshop will be held from Wednesday, 5 February to Friday, 7 February and is open to all participants.The main aim of the joint measurement workshop and the expert group meeting will be threefold: * Discuss applied methodologies to measure tax and commercial IFFs, share results and lessons learnt. * Develop a suitable framework for identifying policies in a standard format for African countries but reflecting national priorities. * Ascertain the framework through an expert-led review.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat EFTA FSO Switzerland
Description: The objective of the course is to introduce participants to some advanced techniques of non-response treatment, variance estimation, calibration and sample coordination. Theoretical concepts and findings will be illustrated by examples and practical exercises. The course starts with an introduction to the R software, which will allow participants to better understand practical applications of presented survey techniques and their successful implementation in practice.
Target Audience: Junior or senior staff of methodology divisions using sample survey techniques in the production of statistics or staff with comparable knowledge.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat EFTA FSO Switzerland
Description: The objective sof this course are: * To provide participants with a theoretical and methodological background on the development of indicator systems, especially in the context of monitoring SDGs; * To build up a common understanding of terms, definitions, as well as the role and limits of official statistics in the construction and maintenance of indicator systems; * To provide knowledge about the links between policy makers and other users of indicators and the statistical community providing data and indicators; * The course will not address the following topics: ** Construction of individual indicators; ** Construction of data platforms and reporting procedures for SDGs monitoring; ** Use of indicators in statistical models.
Target Audience: Staff members working in the field of monitoring the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or of economic, social or environmental statistics or who need to extend their knowledge on how to use indicators and indicator systems
Organizer(s): UNCTAD SDG Lab Rethinking Economics AI Generated
Description: Body BackgroundIt is by now well understood that today’s financial and economic systems are not fit-for-purpose to address the triple planetary crisis and ensure a sustainable future for all. Our current system is biased towards prioritizing short-term profit over the long-term wellbeing of people and planet.As we head into the UNs Summit of the Future, one of the key structural challenges that needs to be addressed to advance the SDGs is the development of a universal and comprehensive measurement of progress on sustainable development to complement Gross Domestic Progress (GDP). It is key that young people have a voice in the development of a framework to complement GDP, a framework that will have implications on their futures and wellbeing.To this end, the SDG Lab is organizing an intergenerational discussion on “What Counts in the future?” in collaboration with the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the international student movement, Rethinking Economics. The objective is to infuse the discussion on how we move Beyond GDP with a diverse range of youth perspectives and expertise, to provide input for Member States as they negotiate the Pact for the Future.The dialogue is the continuation of discussion at the event “Rethinking Economic Systems for Long-term Sustainable Development”, which took place in October 2023 as part of the SDG Lab`s What`s Next series. The session brought together several influential organizations and stakeholders to reflect on the way forward to ensure that the economy creates value for local communities and countries today and in the future. The discussion made it clear that we need a mindset change and political courage to make use of the momentum to move beyond GDP.To generate insights from young people, an essay competition was launched in advance of the dialogue on 17 April. Over 630 young people from more than 50 countries submitted their response to the question: What values and principles would you like to see in a Framework to Value What Counts beyond GDP and what are the challenges to be addressed as a priority? ProgrammeAt this interactive in-person meeting the five winners of the global essay contest will share their perspectives on the values and principles that should be included in a framework to move beyond GDP. Furthermore, the meeting will invite leaders from both the public and private sphere, including senior UN officials and Member States and other international organizations, to reflect and engage with the young speakers.Speakers include: * Ms. Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General, United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) * Mr. Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) * H.E. Ms. Eunice M. Tembo Luambia, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Zambia to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva * Mr. Jean-Luc Bernasconi, Chief of Staff, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Member of the Directorate at SDC * Mr. Laurence Jones-Williams, Director of Rethinking Economics International * Ms. Özge Aydogan, Director of the SDG Lab, United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) * The five winners of the global essay competition on Moving Beyond GDP: * Ms. Paula Borges (Brazil) * Ms. Rose Holm (Denmark) * Ms. Kaydence Drayak (United Kingdom) * Ms. Julianna Makonise (Zimbabwe) * Ms. Aymen Ahmad (Pakistan)Read the publication"What counts in the future? Youth perspectives on measuring what we value".
Description: The International Data Alliance for Children on the Move (IDAC), in partnership with UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight (Innocenti) and UNICEF Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (DAPM), facilitated a global collaboration around the theme of improving data on climate-related child and family mobility. The workshop will convene a core group of cross-sectoral data and thematic experts working on issues relevant to mobility, climate, and child rights, protection and well-being. The objectives of the workshop will be to take stock of, and improve, data for informing solutions to the needs of children and their families engaged in contexts of climate-related migration and displacement, in order to set a shared research agenda, identifying common gaps, priorities, and opportunities for knowledge-sharing and collaboration.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 02 Dec 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat EFTA FSO Switzerland
Description: Providing participants with a better understanding of transforming statistical data into effective, data-based, open, timely, and user-friendly information objects. How to make complex data understandable with a visual object, incl. storytelling. Meet the tools to choose the right visualisation, tools and frameworks adapted to produce visualisation, and best practices with guidelines and processes.
Description: UNCTAD and UNODC are custodian agencies of indicator 16.4.1 on illicit financial flows (IFFs) and their respective statistical sections jointly developed a Conceptual Framework for the Statistical Measurement of Illicit Financial Flows in 2020.1 The Framework was endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission in March 2022. In parallel, custodian agencies have drafted methodologies to measure various types of IFFs. To date, methodologies to measure IFFs have been tested by 22 countries on three continents in efforts coordinated by UN regional commissions and UNODC field Offices (on crime-related IFFs), alongside UNCTAD and UNODC statistics. This includes 12 African countries, 4 Latin American and 6 Asian countries many of which produced first estimates of commercial or crime-related IFFs. As lessons are learned and estimation methods are tested and refined, interest from countries to systematically and regularly measure IFFs is growing. During the first quarter of the year 2023, for SDG reporting, UNODC has provided the first ever data on crime-related IFFs for SDG indicator 16.4.12. Following up with these efforts, the UN Development Account project Measuring and Curbing Illicit Financial Flows3 aims to strengthen the capacity of developing countries across regions to produce standardized estimates of illicit financial flows and enhance investigative and analytical capacities to develop evidence -based policy responses to monitor and curb illicit financial flows. This meeting will launch activities of the project and is organised with three specific objectives: * To kick-off the UN Development Account project Measuring and Curbing Illicit Financial Flows globally with partners and participating countries; and strengthen stakeholder engagement and coordination. * To enhance capacity on the methodologies to measure SDG indicator 16.4.1 on IFFs and implementation of policy measures to curbing these flows by disseminating globally agreed concepts and methods to measure IFFs and providing examples from different regions. * Allow participating countries to share their experiences and learn. Targeted participants of the international kick-off meeting are national and international stakeholders within the UN Development Account project Measuring and Curbing Illicit Financial Flows. 1 https://unctad.org/publication/conceptual-framework-statistical-measurement-illicit-financial-flows 2 Selecting data series to reflect SDG indicator 16.4.1 on SDG Indicators Database: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/dataportal/database returns Indicator 16.4.1 series: Total value of inward illicit financial flows (DI_ILL_IN) and Total value of outward illicit financial flows (DI_ILL_OUT). 3 https://unctad.org/project/measuring-and-curbing-illicit-financial-flows
Description: Body UNCTAD and UNODC are custodian agencies of indicator 16.4.1 on illicit financial flows (IFFs) and their respective statistical sections jointly developed a Conceptual Framework for the Statistical Measurement of Illicit Financial Flows in 2020.1 The Framework was endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission in March 2022. In parallel, custodian agencies have drafted methodologies to measure various types of IFFs. To date, methodologies to measure IFFs have been tested by 22 countries on three continents in efforts coordinated by UN regional commissions and UNODC field Offices (on crime-related IFFs), alongside UNCTAD and UNODC statistics. This includes 12 African countries, 4 Latin American and 6 Asian countries many of which produced first estimates of commercial or crime-related IFFs. As lessons are learned and estimation methods are tested and refined, interest from countries to systematically and regularly measure IFFs is growing. During the first quarter of the year 2023, for SDG reporting, UNODC has provided the first ever data on crime-related IFFs for SDG indicator 16.4.12. Following up with these efforts, the UN Development Account project Measuring and Curbing Illicit Financial Flows3 aims to strengthen the capacity of developing countries across regions to produce standardized estimates of illicit financial flows and enhance investigative and analytical capacities to develop evidence -based policy responses to monitor and curb illicit financial flows. This workshop is organised with three specific objectives: * To kick-off the UN Development Account project Measuring and Curbing Illicit Financial Flows globally and bring partners and participating countries to the similar level of understanding of the project and strengthen stakeholder engagement and coordination. * To enhance the capacity of countries on understanding the methodologies developed by custodian agencies and regional commissions to measure SDG indicator 16.4.1 on IFFs, and support countries in formulating relevant policy responses and providing examples from different regions. * Provide participating countries opportunities to share their experiences and learn. Targeted participants of the international kick-off meeting are national and international stakeholders within the UN Development Account project Measuring and Curbing Illicit Financial Flows. 1 https://unctad.org/publication/conceptual-framework-statistical-measurement-illicit-financial-flows 2 Selecting data series to reflect SDG indicator 16.4.1 on SDG Indicators Database: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/dataportal/database returns Indicator 16.4.1 series: Total value of inward illicit financial flows (DI_ILL_IN) and Total value of outward illicit financial flows (DI_ILL_OUT). 3 https://unctad.org/project/measuring-and-curbing-illicit-financial-flows
Course Language: English , French , Spanish , Russian , Arabic
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 04 Jan 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat FSO Switzerland
Description: To provide participants with a theoretical and methodological background on the development of indicator systems, especially in the context of monitoring SDGs; To build up a common understanding of terms, definitions, as well as the role and limits of official statistics in the construction and maintenance of indicator systems; To provide knowledge about the links between policy makers and other users of indicators and the statistical community providing data and indicators. The course will not address the following topics: Construction of individual indicators; Construction of data platforms and reporting procedures for SDGs monitoring; Use of indicators in statistical models.
Target Audience: Staff members working in the field of monitoring the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or of economic, social or environmental statistics or who need to extend their knowledge on how to use indicators and indicator systems.
Description: The theme of the IFC 2022 Biennial Conference, to be held at the BIS in Basel on 25–26 August 2022, will cover the post-pandemic landscape for central bank statistics, taking note of central banks’ dual role as both compilers and users of official statistics. The programme will cover issues such as the consequences of Covid-19 for data sources, processes and methodologies; the evolving role of central bank statistical functions; and global initiatives like the ongoing revision of international statistical manuals and the prospective new Data Gaps Initiative envisaged by the G20 – including the main statistical priorities identified in this context that relate to (i) climate change; (ii) household distributional information; (iii) fintech and financial inclusion data; and (iv) access to private sources of data and administrative data.
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Launch of the WHO Geographic information system centre for health
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 multi-stakeholder nature of the SDG monitoring process has further emphasized the need for National Statistical Offices to communicate more with the different users of their data in order to understand user needs and deliver products that meet them. The UNSD-FCDO project on SDG monitoring worked with the National Statistical Offices of 20 project countries to develop their capacity to widely disseminate their SDG data in an accessible and engaging manner, including through online national data platforms, in order to inform and engage with a wide range of users. This session will showcase some of the many achievements of the countries with regard to user engagement, metadata standardization and the development of data visualization platforms. It will also highlight how they have continued to implement national SDG monitoring during the COVID-19 pandemic, showing a strong, ongoing commitment to providing data and metadata on the SDGs in spite of the significant challenges.
Description: At the meeting of the Committee of the Chief Statisticians of the United Nations System (CCS-UN) that took place on 11 September 2019 in Copenhagen, the chief statisticians agreed to organize a “training session for agencies practitioners who want to adopt this technique [nowcasting]”. This session will take the form a technical workshop, jointly organised by UNCTAD and UNIDO, to discuss the current practices of CCS-UN members in areas related to nowcasting, identify gaps where additional methodological work is needed, and share successful communication strategies for these estimates.
