Arab Thematic Conference on

Agile and Resilient National Statistical Systems

  • Amman, Jordan
  • 13 - 15 June 2023

The Arab Thematic Conference (13 - 15 June, Amman, Jordan) is part of a series of regional conferences 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 regional approach to these conferences will put focus on practices and challenges common among members of each region. In particular, it will allow the organizers to collect additional information and examples to contribute to the updated Handbook of Statistical Organization, whose purpose is to support the needs of senior managers to adapt and develop their statistical organizations and systems as stressed in th Cape Town Global Action Plan (CTGAP) for Sustainable Development and as described in the final report of the series of conferences on a Transformative Agenda for Official Statistics.

This Thematic Conference for Arab-speaking countries will be organized around three main sessions covering the six strategic areas of the CTGAP and a subset of the 14 substantive chapters of the Handbook as identified by the organizing committee, represented by the Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics (AITRS), UN-ESCWA and UNSD, as highly relevant for the region.


Tuesday, 13 June 2023

08:30 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 09:15
Opening and Welcome
  • ESCWA / UNSD / AITRS / SESRIC
09:15 - 10:00
Session 1: Institutional frameworks, governance and partnership
  • UNSD: Handbook on Management and Organization of National Statistical Systems
  • ESCWA: ESCWA Mechanisms and Tools For the Arab Region
10:00 - 11:00
Session 1(a): Institutional Governance and Coordination of National Statistical Systems
Moderator: UNSD
  • Tunisia: Development of national statistical law and related challenges
  • AITRS/ESCWA: Strategies to renew statistical laws in the Arab region
  • Libya: Coordination and collaboration in times of conflicts
  • SESRIC: Initiatives and activities bolstering modernization of national statistical legislation in the OIC region
Questions and answers
11:00 - 11:30

COFFEE/TEA BREAK

11:30 - 13:00
Session 1(b): User engagement and partnership with the data community
Moderator: Bahrain
  • UNSD: Data Stewardship - Governance beyond the National Statistical System
  • Qatar: Maintaining SDG National Reporting Platform through collaboration and use of the latest applications
  • Palestine: Strengthening data culture through partnerships - Palestine Data Science initiative
  • Jordan: Partnerships with the statistical community to reform the NSS
  • Egypt: Developing the framework and content of the national statistical system and best practices
Questions and answers
13:00 - 14:00

LUNCH BREAK

14:00 - 15:15
Session 1(c): Panel discussion on the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics
Moderator: ESCWA
Keynote: Mr. Hallgrímur Snorrason (senior consultant UNSD)
Panelists: SESRIC / Palestine / Somalia / Oman
15:15 - 15:30

COFFEE/TEA BREAK

15:30 - 17:00
Breakout Session for topics of Session 1
Discussion in small groups with guiding questions prepared in advance

Wednesday, 14 June 2023

09:00 - 09:30
Session 2: Innovation, quality management and capacity development
  • UNSD: Global Initiatives for accessing innovative data sources, processing and storage
  • ESCWA: ESCWA Data Ecosystem and Implementation at the National Level
9:30 - 11:00
Session 2(a): Innovative data sources and quality management
Moderator: AITRS
  • Saudi Arabia: Use of innovative tools and methods for data collection
  • Tunisia: Innovative solution to overcome the obstacles to data collection
  • Yemen: Establishment of the Emergency Statistics Unit at the Geographic Information Systems Center (GISC)
  • Oman: Use of administrative data in implementing population census
Questions and answers
11:00 - 11:30

COFFEE/TEA BREAK

11:30 - 13:00
Session 2(b): Data sharing and dissemination
Moderator: Syria
  • Jordan: Jordan's evaluation in the Open Data Index
  • Qatar: Live update and dissemination of key development indicators on mobile application
  • Somalia: Data availability dashboard
  • Iraq: Data exchange for a sustainable and effective national statistical system
Questions and answers
13:00 - 14:00

LUNCH BREAK

14:00 - 15:30
Session 2(c): Enhancing capacity for the transformation and modernization of official statistics
Moderator: ESCWA
Panelists: Iraq / Bahrain / Qatar / AITRS
15:30 - 15:45

COFFEE/TEA BREAK

16:00 - 20:00
Social Event

Thursday, 15 June 2023

09:00 - 11:00
Breakout Session for topics of Session 2
Discussion in small groups with guiding questions prepared in advance
11:00 - 11:30

COFFEE/TEA BREAK

11:30 - 13:00
Report in the plenary of breakout session 1
Moderator: UNSD
Report of the outcome and conclusions of the group discussion of Breakout Session 1 and general discussion
13:00 - 14:00

LUNCH BREAK

14:00 - 15:30
Report in the plenary of breakout session 2
Moderator: ESCWA
Report of the outcome and conclusions of the group discussion of Breakout Session 2 and general discussion
15:30 - 16:30
Conclusions of the Conference and Farewell
Mr. Hallgrímur Snorrason (reflections) / AITRS / UNSD / ESCWA

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